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Screen Gems Goes Blind For Remake of ‘See No Evil’
First there was Mike Flanagan’s Hush, about a deaf woman trapped in a house. This summer we’ll see the release of Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe, in which a bunch of kids break into a blind man’s home. Next up is a remake of a 1970s classic in which the protagonist is blind. It’s all about the senses these days…
Screen Gems is developing a remake of See No Evil, not to be confused with WWE’s slasher franchise of the same name.
The 1971 Columbia Pictures horror movie starred Mia Farrow as a young blind woman returns to her uncle’s English country home where she’s visiting to discover her family murdered and the killer still in the house. Richard Fleischer directed Brian Clemens’ script.
Mike Scannell will write the new script, and Unbroken Pictures’ Bryan Bertino (The Strangers, Mockingbird) and Adrienne Biddle will produce, Deadline adds, including that Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper and EVP Production Scott Strauss will oversee for the studio.
Screen Gems and Unbroken are already partnered on the horror thriller He’s Out There, also penned by Scannell and to be directed by Dennis Iliadis. Bertino is also working on the screenplay for The Strangers 2, a sequel to the 2008 pic he wrote and directed. He is in post on the fantasy horror film Stephanie starring Frank Grillo and the horror pic There Are Monsters starring Zoe Kazan and Ella Ballentine.
Zazie Beetz must fight her way through a New York City high-rise serving as a temple to Satan in They Will Kill You, and it’s officially set to make its global streaming debut next week.
They Will Kill You begins streaming exclusively on HBO Max on Friday, June 12. The film will debut on HBO linear on June 13 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
Beetz leads the cast as Asia, who must survive the night at the Virgil, a demonic cult’s mysterious and twisted death-trap of a lair, before becoming their next offering. Patricia Arquette, Myha’La, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, and Heather Graham also star.
Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die!) directs from a script he co-wrote with Alex Litvak (Predators).
IT filmmaker Andy Muschietti produces alongside Barbara Muschietti and Dan Kagan. Executive producers include Sokolov, Litvak, Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, and Carl Hampe.
The raucous action horror comedy delivers on blood-splattery fun, but was overshadowed by high profile sequel Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. It’s worth a watch for the talented cast, who commit to Sokolov’s zany action horror beats, include a rogue eyeball.
I wrote in my SXSW review, “Sokolov’s striking composition, dedication to carnage-fueled stunts and fight choreography, and an all-too-game cast anchored by a dedicated and fierce Zazie Beetz prevent this slight but energetic crowd-pleaser from careening off the rails.” And, “it’s so brazen and unabashed in its pursuit of cinematic thrills and splatstick chills that it succeeds in its aim, which is to deliver a riotously great time at the theater.”
More of a physical media fan? On June 30, 2026, They Will Kill You will be available to own on 4K UHD™, Blu-ray™, and DVD from online and physical retailers.
New Line Cinema/Nocturna’s “They Will Kill You,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
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