Osgood Perkins is now one of my top indie filmmakers.
Even though he penned the awful, terrible, no-good The Girl in the Photographs (it’s clear that the director destroyed his script), Osgood’s directorial debut, February, landed in my list of best genre films of 2015.
After February, I cannot wait to see what comes next. Thankfully, we won’t have to wait long.
It was announced today that Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson (“The Affair,” Saving Mr. Banks) will star in Perkins’ I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, with Academy Award Nominee Bob Balaban (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom) and Lucy Boynton (pictured in February) also joining the cast.
“I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House follows Lily (Wilson), a young nurse hired to care for elderly Helen Bloom, a best-selling author of ghost stories who has chosen to live out her final days in her beloved country home – a home that holds an horrific ghost story of its own.”
Perkins wrote the script and will be directing, with principal photography beginning in Ottawa on February 16th.
