With Obsession in theaters now, director Curry Barker has revealed the first plot details for his next feature, Anything But Ghosts, which has already wrapped production.
“It’s about these two con artist ghost hunters that just con old women and single dads, but they’re really good at it,” Barker tells CBR. “They can make the table shake, they can make the lights flicker. They’ve got all this special equipment.”
He continues, “They put on a show, until they run into a very real, very dangerous dark entity.”
Barker directs from a script he co-wrote with longtime creative partner Cooper Tomlinson (Milk & Serial). The duo also stars as the ghost hunters.
“It’s so different than Obsession, because the idea itself just lends itself better to comedy, because it’s literally about two ghost hunter con artists,” Barker told Bloody Disgusting.
“It’s Cooper and me doing our thing, so it lends itself better to comedy, but it’s still set in this super grounded world. It’s ghosts being real in a world where ghosts are not real,” he added.
Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”), Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World), and Violet McGraw (M3GAN) also star in Anything But Ghosts.
Blumhouse’s Jason Blum produces with Roy Lee & Steven Schneider of Spooky Pictures (Hokum) and Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath of Divide/Conquer (M3GAN). Executive producers include Barker & Tomlinson for That’s a Bad Idea and Ben Ross for Image Nation (Late Night with the Devil).
Barker is currently developing a Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot for A24.