More cast joins Wes Craven-produced thriller The Girl in the Photographs

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Early this year we learned that genre favorite Wes Craven was set to produce his protégé Nick Simon's indie thriller THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS, later learning that HAROLD AND KUMAR actor Kal Penn had joined the cast. Now The Wrap is reporting that the cast has grown by adding “The X-Files” star Mitch Pileggi, Claudia Lee (“Hart of Dixie”), Katharine Isabelle (“Hannibal”), Miranda Rae Mayo (“Pretty Little Liars”), Christy Carlson Romano (“Kim Possible”), Toby Hemingway (BLACK SWAN) and Luke Baines (SAVING MR. BANKS). That's quite a line up!

Simon co-wrote the script with Oz Perkins and Robert Morast.

Lee will play the title character of Colleen, a bored small-town girl trying to distance herself from an abusive boyfriend when two serial killers begin leaving her photo at the scene of their brutal crimes.

Colleen’s life isn’t going anywhere. The small town natural beauty is bored with her dead end job at a grocery store and is ready to distance herself from her abusive boyfriend.  In the midst of her turmoil, a pair of deranged serial killers begins leaving her photos of their mutilated victims.  Her chance to escape comes in the form of Peter Hemmings (Penn), a hipster celebrity photographer who has traveled back to his hometown of Spearfish, South Dakota with a pack of models, intent on copying the killers’ intense and unapologetic artistry and use it for an important ad campaign.  When he learns Colleen is their muse, Peter resolves to make her his own and use her as the centerpiece of a photo campaign in Los Angeles. But before Colleen can leave her old life behind, she must contend with the desires of her murderous stalkers who have chosen her last night in town to execute their most provocative work to date.

The project is the first from Kuwait-based Al-Ghanim Entertainment, a film financing and production company. Production is currently under way in Canada, and CAA is selling North American rights.