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‘The Bells’: Amblin and Vertigo Team to Bring Reddit Ghost Story “Spire in the Woods” to Life

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Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners is teaming up with Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Jon Berg on a movie based on the ghost story The Spire in the Woods, Variety writes.

Amblin has acquired movie rights to Tony Lunedi’s “The Spire in the Woods,” which gained renown after it was first published as a series of 10 Reddit articles in 2013.

Now known as The Bells, the story centers on a teen boy searching for the cause of a friend’s suicide, who finds himself captivated by the same alluring but deadly ghost story, as he digs deeper.

Vertigo’s Liya Gao will oversee the project. Josh Dove of Intellectual Property Group will executive produce. Dove is Lunedi’s manager and represented him in the deal with Amblin, along with lawyer Frank Gruber.

Vertigo’s credits include The Ring, The Grudge, It, and even Godzilla.

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‘The Hangman’ Trailer – A Bloodthirsty Demon Plays a Twisted Game in Dread’s Latest Original

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Up next from indie director Bruce Wemple (Monstrous, Dawn of the Beast) comes The Hangman, which will release in limited theaters on May 31 before it hits VOD June 6.

In Dread’s latest horror movie, “During a camping trip from hell, a father battles a murderous cult and a bloodthirsty demon, known as The Hangman, to save his kidnapped son.”

Lindsey Dresbach, Richard Lounello, Jefferson Cox, Daniel Martin Berkey and Mar Cellus star.

Here’s the full synopsis: “To mend their troubled relationship, a middle-aged door-to-door salesman, Leon (LeJon Woods), takes his teenage son on a camping trip into deep rural Appalachia. Little do they know of the mountainous region’s sinister secrets. A local cult has summoned an evil demon born of hate and pain, known to them as The Hangman, and now the bodies have begun to pile up. Leon wakes up in the morning to discover that his son is missing.”

“To find him, Leon must face the murderous cult and the bloodthirsty monster that is The Hangman.”

Director Bruce Wemple said in a statement, “We set out to tell a story about the lengths a father will go to get his son back, including coming face to face with a bloodthirsty demon raised from hell. We can’t wait for audiences to come along for the ride.”

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