Screenwriter John Oak Dalton Makes Directing Debut With The Girl in the Crawlspace
Mike Sprague
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“It’s psychological horror, with hopefully some good twists and turns,” Dalton said.
Director Henrique Couto (Babysitter Massacre) and screenwriter John Oak Dalton (Haunted House on Sorority Row) are getting ready for their next feature – but this time they’ll be switching it up.
“John Dalton is one of my favorite collaborators,” Couto said. “So helping him take the director’s chair was a no-brainer for me.”
The Girl in the Crawlspace will mark the fifth team-up between the director and screenwriter, but this time writer John Oka Dalton will be sitting in the director’s chair and director Henrique Couto will be producing and acting as the film’s cinematographer.
“I have wanted to jump over to the director’s chair for a while, after working on the sets of some of the movies made from my screenplays,” Dalton said. “This is a script I feel strongly about, one that I have wanted to get out there.”
Erin Ryan (Calamity Jane’s Revenge) will play the title character, Jill. And Joni Durian (Alone in the Ghost House) and John Hambrick (Scarewaves) play a troubled couple.
Other cast include Tom Cherry, Rachael Redolfi, Jeff Kirkendall, Joe Kidd, Iabou Windimere, Chelsi Kern and fellow director Andrew Shearer. Mark Polonia has signed on to edit the film which begins shooting this spring in rural Indiana.
The film is slated for release in 2018.
Synopsis:
Jill escapes from a notorious serial killer who has kept her prisoner in a crawlspace. She tries to work her way back to normal with the help of a therapist, but becomes inserted into the therapist’s strained marriage with a failing screenwriter.
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