Witchcraft Motion Picture Company has acquired rights to the psychological horror She Came Back from screenwriter Emily Renee Bennett, writes Deadline.
Described as “if ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ took place at The Overlook Hotel,” She Came Back is about a young woman haunted by the childhood murder of her young sister, and who, upon returning to her hometown, discovers that her sister might not be dead after all.
Witchcraft’s Rod Blackhurst (Here Alone, Netflix’s Amanda Knox) will direct the film that’s been fast-tracked as the first project optioned under the company’s new underrepresented writer mandate.
“She Came Back is a film about mental illness, addiction, guilt, and a strong and vulnerable woman’s struggle for identity,” said Blackhurst and Noah Lang in a joint statement.
Blackhurst and Lang founded Witchcraft Motion Picture Company after the success of their 2016 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award winner Here Alone (pictured) and the development of the The White room, which was acquired in January 2019 by Amblin Partners, with Evan Hayes of Ace Content, and The Picture Company’s Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona producing.