Dimension to Open James Wan’s House of Horror

Steve Barton   |  

Jan 30, 2012

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We’ve been talking about the frightfest House of Horror for a while now, and finally a studio has stepped up to give it distro. Read on for details.

Bloody Disgusting reports that Dimension Films is standing behind House of Horror, the James Wan-produced haunted house chiller that’s to be directed by Frontier(s) and The Divide‘s Xavier Gens.

James Wan Presents House of Horror will be the first of many “branding projects“. The film was penned by Max La Bella from a story by Wan.

Synopsis
The Devil made me do it.

The House of Horror is a horror-thriller that centers around a gruesome crime scene. The film is shot with a blend of found footage, interrogation video, news cameras and classical cinematography. The film focuses on the aftermath of a horrific massacre: five college students, brutally murdered inside a decrepit, abandoned home.

We are thrown right into the mix as the lead Detective, Mark Lewis, and the police department’s psychologist, Dr. Elizabeth Klein, question a suspect. The young man at the center is John Ascot, bound by handcuffs in a mobile command station. During the interrogation John explains everything leading up to the deaths of his friends.

We discover that they were amateur ghost-hunters, seeking out paranormal phenomenon at the abandoned house believed to be haunted. What started out as a harmless activity turned into something truly terrifying and more than they ever could bargain for. John explains to the police that he isn’t responsible for his friends’ deaths, but rather, it was the house. He tells them he believes the house is a gateway to hell, a place of concentrated evil.

We slowly witness an eerie change in John’s demeanor through the course of the movie. Things take a disturbing turn when John hints at the notion that he is possessed by the Devil. Detective Lewis and Dr. Klein are forced to unravel the mystery of how John’s friends were murdered. All this leads to a stunning revelation about the man they’ve been interrogating and a gut-wrenching conclusion.

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