Crypt TV, an entertainment company that was launched in 2015 by Jack Davis and Eli Roth, with Blumhouse Productions on board as an investor, is now putting together their first domestic feature film. Deadline reports that Bomani J. Story is writing and directing the film The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster for Crypt TV, with production scheduled to begin in North Carolina next month.
A new take on Mary Shelley’s classic story Frankenstein, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster will follow
teenage anti-hero, Vicaria, who is on a desperate quest to cure death. With brilliant intelligence and a willingness to lose it all, Vicaria is able to resurrect the corpse of her recently slain brother, but unknowingly creates an unstoppable monster hungry for revenge.
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Laya DeLeon Hayes of The Equalizer is on board to play the 17-year-old Vicaria, with Denzel Whitaker of Black Panther co-starring as a character named Kango.
Story, who is making his feature debut with this film, is producing The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster with Crypt TV’s Jack Davis and Darren Brandl. Jeremy Elliott and Jasmine Johnson are executive producing. Story had this to say about the film:
Growing up, I loved watching monster movies with my older sister. We rarely, if ever, saw ones that tackled issues that were important to us, with people who looked like us. It has been a dream of mine to bring an adaptation of Frankenstein to film through the black lens with a lead character as smart as my sister. Crypt has been a champion of this story since day one, but it finally clicked together when Laya came to play Vicaria. What an amazing team.”
Brandl added:
Bomani wrote a wildly original horror film that feels like everything we want to make at Crypt: noisy, scary, smart and with focus on characters, both monsters and humans. With Story behind the camera, and Laya in front, we’re gonna launch a lasting theatrical franchise, this one is so special.”
Crypt TV specializes in short-form horror videos made for the internet, but recently branched out into features with the India-based film Chhorii.
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