Ti West Fends Off Bedbugs in Brooklyn

Steve Barton   |  

Apr 10, 2012

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Director Ti West has tackled a lot of things in his career thus far, but his latest project has our skin crawling. And itching. And yes, we think we’ve just broken out into an insect-induced rash. Anyone have any salve? Anyone? Hello?

According to Deadline, Tango Pictures, a new production venture created by producers Christina Lurie, Steven Shainberg, and Andrew Lazar, has acquired film rights to Ben H. Winters’ bestselling horror novel Bedbugs. The Innkeepers writer Ti West has been set to write the script.

The book features a premise that is all too relatable to anyone who travels to a major city like Manhattan or Toronto and turns over the mattress to see if anything is crawling as bedbug infestations become more common each year. Bedbugs is a tale of urban paranoia set in Brooklyn that follows the Wendt family as they move into a new home and suddenly start to encounter strange occurrences. Susan Wendt begins suffering what she suspects are bedbug bites, but she’s the only one getting bitten and suddenly fears she may be going crazy. That’s until she’s confronted with a more menacing explanation for the strange things happening to her and the family.

Said Quirk associate publisher and creative director Jason Rekulak: “Reading Bedbugs as a manuscript felt like the literary equivalent of a Ti West horror movie—a slow-burning supernatural story with fully realized characters, light on gore but heavy on menace and dread.”

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