Angel Hearts Mickey Rourke is returning to horror, only this time he’ll play the film’s protagonist.
Rourke has been cast as the lead in Unhinged, a supernatural horror movie to be directed by Mark Atkins (Haunting Of Winchester House), Deadline reports.
Rourke, the Oscar nominee for The Wrestler, will play Dr. Elder, a prominent psychiatrist at a state-run hospital who wrestles with madness and a dark supernatural force as he races to stop an escaped patient from butchering five people held hostage in a remote house.
Ian Holt, who co-authored Dracula: The Undead, the 2009 sequel to Bram Stroker’s “Dracula”, penned the screenplay.
The indie from Archstone Entertainment and Alt House Productions is set to begin shooting in July in Los Angeles.
Sales for Unhinged will kick off at the Cannes film market in May and will screen at the American Film Market.
