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Alexandre Aja’s Making An Interactive Horror Movie

Alexandre Aja‘s creature feature Crawl is currently baring its teeth in theaters. It appears that the director isn’t wasting any time, he has already found his next project. It’s a “haunted house” movie, according to Collider. The currently untitled movie was written by Aja, Nick Simon (The Girl in the Photographs), and Jeff Howard who was behind Netflix’s huge hit series “The Haunting of Hill House.” Aja is taking an interesting approach, it will be an interactive movie, think “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.” To achieve the movie Aja and Amblin are partnering with Kino Industries’ CtrlMovie tech. The viewer at theaters will be able to vote on the direction and narrative the story takes. For those watching at home, they will be able to influence the storyline via a phone app. We’ll update you when we know more.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 15, 2019
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A Game Turns Deadly In ‘Truth Or Dare’ – Premiering This October On Syfy

Everyone has played “Truth or Dare”. But for one group of friends, the once innocent game turns deadly in Truth or Dare from director Nick Simon (Girl in the Photographs), premiering on Syfy during their annual “31 Days of Halloween”. In the film, “eight college friends head to a “Haunted Rental” in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they’re met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.” Written by Thommy Hutson and Ethan Lawrence,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 30, 2017
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‘The Girl In The Photographs’, Wes Craven’s Last Project, Picked Up By Vertical Entertainment

One of Wes Craven’s last projects, ‘The Girl in the Photographs’, has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Vertical plans to release the thriller some time next year. In The Girl in the Photographs’, a bored young woman, living in a sleepy little town, starts receiving photographs of brutally murdered young women. A celebrity photographer arrives in town after seeing the photographs after seeing the photographs, but are the photos real or is the man behind them simply a great artist faking the brutal scenes? Katharine Isabelle, Christy Carlson Romano, Kenny Wormald, Claudia Lee, Miranda Rae Mayo, Toby Hemingway and Eva Bourne star along side ‘The X-Files’ actor Mitch Pileggi and ‘Harold and Kumar’s’ Kal Penn. Nick Simon co-wrote the film with Osgood Perkins. Wes Craven and Bawaf Alghanium served as executive producers.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2015

More from Nick Simon

Horror Fuel

Alexandre Aja’s Making An Interactive Horror Movie

Alexandre Aja‘s creature feature Crawl is currently baring its teeth in theaters. It appears that the director isn’t wasting any time, he has already found his next project. It’s a “haunted house” movie, according to Collider. The currently untitled movie was written by Aja, Nick Simon (The Girl in the Photographs), and Jeff Howard who was behind Netflix’s huge hit series “The Haunting of Hill House.” Aja is taking an interesting approach, it will be an interactive movie, think “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.” To achieve the movie Aja and Amblin are partnering with Kino Industries’ CtrlMovie tech. The viewer at theaters will be able to vote on the direction and narrative the story takes. For those watching at home, they will be able to influence the storyline via a phone app. We’ll update you when we know more.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 15, 2019
Horror Fuel

A Game Turns Deadly In ‘Truth Or Dare’ – Premiering This October On Syfy

Everyone has played “Truth or Dare”. But for one group of friends, the once innocent game turns deadly in Truth or Dare from director Nick Simon (Girl in the Photographs), premiering on Syfy during their annual “31 Days of Halloween”. In the film, “eight college friends head to a “Haunted Rental” in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they’re met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.” Written by Thommy Hutson and Ethan Lawrence,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 30, 2017
Horror Fuel

‘The Girl In The Photographs’, Wes Craven’s Last Project, Picked Up By Vertical Entertainment

One of Wes Craven’s last projects, ‘The Girl in the Photographs’, has been acquired by Vertical Entertainment. Vertical plans to release the thriller some time next year. In The Girl in the Photographs’, a bored young woman, living in a sleepy little town, starts receiving photographs of brutally murdered young women. A celebrity photographer arrives in town after seeing the photographs after seeing the photographs, but are the photos real or is the man behind them simply a great artist faking the brutal scenes? Katharine Isabelle, Christy Carlson Romano, Kenny Wormald, Claudia Lee, Miranda Rae Mayo, Toby Hemingway and Eva Bourne star along side ‘The X-Files’ actor Mitch Pileggi and ‘Harold and Kumar’s’ Kal Penn. Nick Simon co-wrote the film with Osgood Perkins. Wes Craven and Bawaf Alghanium served as executive producers.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 13, 2015