John Hannah, Corey Johnson and Oded Fehr – who all appeared in the 1999 The Mummy – will star in Lair, billed as a socially conscious horror movie about an LGBT family embroiled in one man’s attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural, reports Variety.
The film follows self-proclaimed occult expert Dr. Steven Caramore (Johnson), who ekes out a living debunking claims of possession, haunting and anything supernatural for a quick buck. When a friend (Fehr) accused of murder claims he was possessed by a demon, Caramore has to test his own beliefs. Hannah stars as his lawyer.
Caramore litters an apartment with cursed items, outfits it with surveillance equipment and rents the place to an unsuspecting family, setting off a chain of supernatural events. Katarina Cas and Jen Brister play a lesbian couple with two kids.
Julian Kostov and Alexandra Gilbreath also star. Ditto Films will produce, and Adam Ethan Crow writes and directs.
Alonso Varela, whose credits include War for the Planet of the Apes and Guardians of the Galaxy, will be vfx supervisor. Cinematographer Stuart White is also on board. Production gets underway in L.A. in September. Sales are with iuviT Media, which is pre-selling the horror pic at Cannes.
