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New Casting For Horrors’ ‘Home Invasion’, ‘Incarnate’ & ‘Poltergeist’ Remake

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We have major casting news on a trio of horror genre projects.

As we know, MGM and Fox 2000’s remake of Tobe Hooper’s classic spookfest POLTERGEIST will be led by Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt and Jared Harris. However, the film which began shooting this week in Toronto has a couple of new names included in the supporting cast. ‘Hung’ actress Jane Adams has signed on to play a parapsychologist in the film being directed by MONSTER HOUSE’s Gil Kenan. Also, ‘Touch’s Saxon Sharbino will appear as the oldest child of Rockwell and DeWitt’s haunted Bowen family. POLTERGEIST has a from script by David Lindsay-Abaire with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert producing via Ghost House Pictures.

Earlier this week we reported that Aaron Ekhart had signed on as the lead in supernatural thriller INCARNATE. The film is the latest in the long line of genre pictures from Blumhouse Productions and will be directed by Brad Payton from a screenplay by DARK TIDE’s Ronnie Christensen. Eckhart, who will soon be seen in gothic adaptation I, FRANKENSTEIN, will play an exorcism priest who must enter the subconscious of a nine year-old boy if he’s to save his soul from Satan’s grasp. TRANCE beauty Rosario Dawson has joined the cast in an as-yet-unknown role. We’re possibly thinking the mother of the child victim.

Powerhouse producer Joel Silver’s is the man (or rather the money) behind found-footage shocker HOME INVASION, which is being directed by Sean Carter. Bella Thorne is the only name previously attached in the film that follows a family stalked in their own home by two deranged serial-killers. The angle in this effort is that the house has countless hidden cameras helping the owners to survive the night while the psychopaths attempt to hunt them down. ‘Under The Dome‘s Natalie Martinez has taken a lead role as Thorne’s stepmother.

Source: THR

Craig was our great north east correspondent, proving that it’s so ‘grim up north’ that losing yourself in a world of film is a foregone prerequisite. He has been studying the best (and often worst) of both classic and modern cinema at the University of Life for as long as he can remember. Craig’s favorite films include THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, JFK, GOODFELLAS, SCARFACE, and most of John Carpenter’s early work, particularly THE THING and HALLOWEEN.

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