Donnie Darko fav James Duval takes on two roles in the 80’s throwback Beast Mode, directed by Chris W. Freeman & Spain Willingham.
UK-based genre sales outfit Devilworks has taken world rights to the film ahead of the online Marché du Film (June 22-26), reports ScreenDaily.
“Beast Mode follows a has-been Hollywood producer who turns to an ancient herbal elixir to save his career after he accidentally kills his lead star. His pact unleashes a band of bloodthirsty shape-shifting beasts on LA.”
Leslie Easterbrook (The Devil’s Rejects), Ray Wise (“Twin Peaks”, Dead End, The Lazarus Effect), C. Thomas Howell (The Hitcher), and James Hong (Big Trouble in Little China) also star. Freeman and Willingham co-produce with Aaron Scotti, who co-wrote the script with Drew Fortune.
Devilworks also acquired worldwide rights to UK supernatural thriller Playhouse, directed, written, and produced by brothers Fionn and Toby Watts.
Shot in Scotland, the thriller “centers on a notorious horror writer who moves into an ancient castle with his teenage daughter to work on his next play, only to face terrifying consequences when she falls prey to a supernatural evil lurking in the castle walls.”
Grace Courtney, William Holstead, James Rottger, and Helen Mackay lead the cast.
Here’s the sales art for both films that Bloody Disgusting was able to obtain.
