James Wan, creator and director of SAW and this years horror hit INSIDIOUS, has found a director to take charge of his next project HOUSE OF HORROR. Wan will produce the film which will be adapted from a screenplay by Max La Bella, but has announced that directing duties will be passed to Xavier Gens.
Gens was the director responsible for the brutal and unforgiving French hit FRONTIER(S) as well as the disappointing video-game adaptation HITMAN starring Timothy Olyphant. His next feature, apocalyptic thriller THE DIVIDE, starring Lauren German (HOSTEL PART 2) and Michael Biehn (ALIENS) will be released next year.
A press release with the synopsis for HOUSE OF HORROR was announced when the project was first green-lit and goes as follows:-
The Devil made me do it.
The House of Horror is a horror-thriller that centres around a gruesome crime scene. The film is shot with a blend of found footage, interrogation video, news cameras and classical cinematography. The film focuses on the aftermath of a horrific massacre; five college students, brutally murdered inside a decrepit, abandoned home.
We are thrown right into the mix as the lead Detective, Mark Lewis, and the police department’s psychologist, Dr. Elizabeth Klein, question a suspect. The young man at the centre is John Ascot, bound by handcuffs in a mobile command station. During the interrogation, John explains everything leading up to the deaths of his friends.
We discover that they were amateur ghost-hunters, seeking out paranormal phenomenon at the abandoned house believed to be haunted. What started out as a harmless activity turned into something truly terrifying and more than they ever could bargain for. John explains to the police that he isn’t responsible for his friends’ deaths, but rather, it was the house. He tells them he believes the house is a gateway to hell; a place of concentrated evil.
We slowly witness an eerie change in John’s demeanour through the course of the movie. Things take a disturbing turn when John hints at the notion that he is possessed by the Devil. Detective Lewis and Dr. Klein are forced to unravel the mystery of how John’s friends were murdered. All this leads to a stunning revelation about the man they’ve been interrogating and a gut-wrenching conclusion.
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