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Found Footage Horror Movie ‘Puzzle Box’ Coming This Year from Welcome Villain Films
In the wake of genre label Welcome Villain Films picking up the yoga horror movie Mind Body Spirit, the label has also just acquired another found footage movie, Variety reports.
Writer-director Jack Dignan’s found footage horror movie Puzzle Box is coming to Unnamed Footage Festival this month, and it has found a home at Welcome Villain Films.
A release is planned for later this year. Stay tuned for a date.
The upcoming Puzzle Box centers on “recovering drug addict Kait, who flees to a house in the woods to self-rehabilitate. Joined by her sister Olivia, who decides to document the process, strange things begin to happen as the house’s layout mysteriously begins to change, and the two find themselves trapped inside an inescapable, nightmarish puzzle box of a house.”
The Unnamed Footage Festival previews, “Newcomer Jack Dignan’s direction and extremely clever editing take an otherwise unspectacular location and turn it into a labyrinthine hell, which is further elevated by Kaitlyn Boyé’s amazing performance, creating a piece of liminal horror that’s destined to be a found footage classic.”
“We are in the golden age of horror right now, and it’s a moment I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of,” Dignan said in a statement. “My first film, After She Died, was described as being akin to experiencing a dream. If that film was the dream, then my new film Puzzle Box is the nightmare. This is a terrifying, mind-bending found footage horror flick that’ll scare you, move you and give you an experience you truly cannot prepare yourself for, and there’s no better home for it than with Welcome Villain Films.”
It’s now been five years since the release of sequel Happy Death Day 2U, Christopher Landon’s sequel to the Groundhog Day-style slasher movie from 2017. Both films star Jessica Rothe as final girl Tree Gelbman, and director Christopher Landon had been planning on bringing the character – and the actor – back for a third installment. So… where is it?!
We’ve been talking about a potential Happy Death Day 3 for several years now, with the ball in producer Jason Blum’s court. Happy Death Day 2U scared up $64 million at the worldwide box office, a far cry from the first film’s $125 million. But with a reported production budget of just $9 million, that first sequel was profitable for Blumhouse. So again… where is it?!
Chatting with Screen Geek this week while promoting her new action-thriller Boy Kills World, franchise star Jessica Rothe provided a hopeful update on Happy Death Day 3.
“Well, I can say Chris Landon has the whole thing figured out,” Rothe explains. “We just need to wait for Blumhouse and Universal to get their ducks in a row.
Rothe continues in her comments to Screen Geek, “But my fingers are so crossed. I think Tree [Gelbman] deserves her third and final chapter to bring that incredible character and franchise to a close or a new beginning.”
Back in 2020, Christopher Landon had revealed that the working title for the third installment was Happy Death Day to Us, said to be “different than the other two films.”
In the meantime, Christopher Landon is directing a mysterious thriller titled Drop for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes, along with a werewolf movie titled Big Bad for Lionsgate.
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