The Blackcoat’s Daughter Writer-Director Oz Perkins Will Adapt Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts
Mike Sprague
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“Scared the living hell out of me, and I’m pretty hard to scare.” – Stephen King on “A Head Full of Ghosts”
You’ve got to love Oz Perkins. The man is the son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins but that hasn’t kept the young Perkins from creating his own growing legacy of horror.
From his killer debut film The Blackcoat’s Daughter starring Emma Roberts and Kiernan Shipka to his Netflix film I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, Perkins is one of the best up-and-coming horror auteurs out there.
It is with this in mind we are already counting down the days until we can see his next film, an adaption of Paul Tremblay’s “A Head Full of Ghosts.”
Deadline is reporting that Perkins will rewrite and direct the Focus Features adaptation from producers Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr., along with The Allegiance Theater’s Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine, and David Gambino.
We’ll let you know once we hear more about the film, but until then let us know what you thought of The Blackcoat’s Daughter below.
Buy “A Head Full of Ghosts” right HERE.
Book Synopsis:
A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.
To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family members agree to be filmed and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of “The Possession,” a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.
Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.
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