EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at upcoming horror Dangerous Games To Play, one of the early films from former Sony exec Scott Strauss and Thunder Road’s genre label Badlands.
Filming has wrapped on the supernatural horror from director Ángel Gómez Hernández (Crawlers) about four high school students who discover a book of supernatural games that allows them to contact the other side.
Written by Evan Spiliotopoulos (The Pope’s Exorcist), pic is based on Lucia Peters’ novel Dangerous Games To Play In The Dark. Cast has been confirmed today as Lucas Dutra (Hotel Amor), Sara Sedran (The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox), Danija Areande and Shaun O’Callaghan as the unsuspecting teenagers who realise too late that the games they’re playing are occult rituals designed by a dark entity to claim their souls. Also joining cast is horror veteran Javier Botet (It).
Since we first announced the project, Altitude has closed multiple international deals, including ANZ (Umbrella), Benelux (18k), Eastern Europe excluding Poland (Prorom), France (SND), Germany (Wildbunch), Greece (Spentzos), India & Malaysia (MVP), Indonesia (PT Prima), Latin America (B F Distribution), Middle East (Phars), Poland (Kinoswiat), Philippines (Pioneer), Portugal (Cinemundo), Spain (Youplanet), Taiwan (Vie Vision), and Vietnam (Mockingbird).
Altitude will present first footage of the film at the upcoming Cannes market and will continue to discuss in remaining territories.
Pic is produced by Scott Strauss (The Pope’s Exorcist) through Badlands, the partnership with Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road. Backed by Andrew Schwartzberg and Jon Shiffman’s Renegade Capital, the company’s first feature Crawlers, directed by Gomez and starring Matilda Lutz, is due for release in the U.S., October 2 via Roadside Attractions and Saban Films as exclusively revealed by Deadline yesterday.
Dutra is represented by Leonor Babo; Sedran is represented by Chiara Mocci at Black & White; Areande is self-repped; O’Callaghan is represented by Christina Sheppard at The Artists Partnership; and Botet is represented by Diana Ellerker.