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David Harbour, Rebecca Hall, Esmé Creed-Miles to Star in ‘A Head Full of Ghosts’ Adaptation
David Harbour (“Stranger Things”), Rebecca Hall (“The Beauty”), and Esmé Creed-Miles (“The Sandman”) are in final negotiations to star in the psychological horror film A Head Full of Ghosts, Deadline reports.
Lionsgate has acquired the worldwide rights to the project. It will be selling the international rights at next week’s European Film Market and will likely handle domestic distribution itself.
Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala (Goodnight Mommy, The Lodge) are writing and directing, based on the 2015 novel by Paul Tremblay (Knock at the Cabin).
In the film, the Barretts’ suburban life is torn apart when their teenage daughter’s descent into madness becomes the subject of a reality show. 15 years later, her sister Merry faces her family’s haunting past with a journalist, uncovering the very nature of the evil that destroyed them.
Producers include Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey of Team Downey, Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine of The Allegiance Theater, David Gambino, and Fifth Season.
“This team’s artistic vision for this terrifying story has been undeniable – striking, distinct and genuinely unsettling,” said Lionsgate chair Adam Fogelson. “It’s no surprise that Stephen King called this book his favorite novel of the past decade and said that it ‘scared the living hell’ out of him – which says it all.”
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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