It has been quite a few months since we’ve heard any news on the James Wan produced HOUSE OF HORROR. The film is the first in a bunch of projects that Wan plans to produce in a deal with Icon Entertainment. The deal was made just before INSIDIOUS hit theaters, a pretty neat one if I do say so myself.
Well it seems the project has found its director, with Xavier Gens on board. Gens you might remember helmed FRONTIERE(S) and has the upcoming THE DIVIDE out next January. This sounds pretty sweet to me, he kind of seems like a good fit for this. Max La Bella wrote the upcoming film, you can check out the sales art to the right and the already released synopsis below.
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.
INSIDIOUS star Rose Byrne
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