Dear Julie Delpy has gotten some company in the THE LEGEND OF LUCY KEYES. Joining her in the cast of this Massachusetts ghost story are Justin Theroux (MULHOLLAND DRIVE), Brooke Adams (THE UNBORN) and Mark Boone (VAMPIRES).
In the movie, a young couple, suffering from the loss of a child, move out to rural New England with their two remaining daughters, Molly and Lucy. It doesn’t take long for them to discover the house has a legendary history concerning the mysterious disappearance of a young girl named Lucy…250 years ago.
You can imagine the rest, but what really makes this project sound promising to me is that it’s based on a real legend as you can read below in an excerpt taken from :
On April 14, 1755, Keyes’s daughter Lucy, who was 4 years old at the time, followed her sisters to fetch some sand from Wachusett Lake. She vanished in the woods that day never to be heard from again.
The towns-people made every effort to find the girl. Search parties combed the woods, the lake was dragged, all to no avail. Martha Keyes, Lucy’s mother, was pushed to the edge of insanity by her grief over losing her daughter. Every evening she searched the woods calling her daughter’s name.
Several years after the deaths of both Martha and Robert Keyes, a letter was found describing, in gruesome detail, the murder of little Lucy Keyes. The letter was from Tilly Littlejohn … To cleanse his dying soul he admitted on his deathbed that he found the girl, Lucy, in the woods and killed her by hitting her on the head with a rock. He then stuffed her body in a hollow log and waited until nightfall to return and bury her body under an uprooted tree.
That’s my kind of ghost story!
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