Horror ‘Dangerous Games To Play’ Wraps & Secures Offers For Badlands

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first have a look at upcoming horror Dangerous Games To Play, one of many early movies from former Sony exec Scott Strauss and Thunder Road’s style label Badlands.  

Filming has wrapped on the supernatural horror from director Ángel Gómez Hernández (Crawlers) about 4 highschool college students who uncover a e-book of supernatural video games that enables them to contact the opposite aspect.

Written by Evan Spiliotopoulos (The Pope’s Exorcist), pic is predicated on Lucia Peters’ novel Dangerous Games To Play In The Dark. Cast has been confirmed at this time as Lucas Dutra (Hotel Amor), Sara Sedran (The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox), Danija Areande and Shaun O’Callaghan because the unsuspecting youngsters who realise too late that the video games they’re taking part in are occult rituals designed by a darkish entity to assert their souls. Also becoming a member of solid is horror veteran Javier Botet (It).

Since we first introduced the venture, Altitude has closed a number of worldwide offers, together with 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 current first footage of the movie on the upcoming Cannes market and can proceed to debate in remaining territories.

Pic is produced by Scott Strauss (The Pope’s Exorcist) by way of Badlands, the partnership with Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road. Backed by Andrew Schwartzberg and Jon Shiffman’s Renegade Capital, the corporate’s first function Crawlers, directed by Gomez and starring Matilda Lutz, is due for launch within the U.S., October 2 through Roadside Attractions and Saban Films as completely 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.