Excuse me while I pick my jaw off the floor.
David Bruckner, a longtime part of the Bloody Disgusting family having directed segments of V/H/S and Southbound, and producer on SiREN, saw his The Night House world premiere at the ongoing Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
The haunter, starring Rebecca Hall as a widow who begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets, is one of the biggest genre acquisitions in recent memory, selling worldwide to Disney’s Searchlight for a whopping $12M, reports Variety.
I know the word “Disney” is one of the few that scares horror fans, but they did release Ready or Not and also have the Guillermo del Toro-produced Antlers on the horizon.
Bruckner broke on the scene with Magnolia Pictures’ The Signal and also directed Netflix’s hit The Ritual. The new film was penned by SiREN and Super Dark Times scribes Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski. Watch for release news as it comes in.
