Creepy Casting

Posted by dominie in Films, News on September 9th, 2008

The Hollywood Reporter announced today Harold Perrineau (The Matrix, 28 Weeks Later, Lost, OZ) is the latest member to join genre favorites Michael Madsen (Kill Bill) and Danny Trejo (Grindhouse, From Dusk ‘Till Dawn) on the big screen in Killing Jar, a new indie thriller written and directed by Mark Young (Tooth and Nail).

The script is about a stranger armed with a shotgun who takes seven patrons hostage at a remote roadside diner.  As the body count rises, the survivors discover that one of the hostages might be more dangerous than their captor.  Perrineau plays one of the hostages, a traveling salesman named John.

Additionally, Perrineau is executive producing the Morningstar Films project with the company’s own John Sachar producing.  The company began lensing over the weekend in North Carolina.

In another thriller, currently with no name but once titled Tortured, Jesse Metcalfe (Insanitarium, Desperate Housewives) will topline according to Bloody-Disgusting.  He joins Erika Christensen and Bill Moseley in the film, directed by Rob Lieberman (Fire in the Sky) about an upper-middle-class couple who becomes obsessive in getting revenge against a pedophile who kidnapped and murdered their only child.

Genre vet Rachel Miner (Tooth and Nail, Penny Dreadful) has been cast in Butterfly Effect: Revelation, one of After Dark Films’ 8 films to die for.  The film is directed by Seth Grossman about a young man (Chris Carmack) who discovers he has inherited the powers of “The Butterfly Effect” and attempts to solve the mystery of his high school girlfriend’s death using his newfound ability, only to unwittingly unleash a vicious serial killer.  Melissa Jones, Miss Horrorfest 2007 will also play a role.  The film hits theaters January 2nd, 2009.