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‘Went Up The Hill’ Lands Two Leads, Starts Production

by Thomas Tuna
written by Thomas Tuna

This looks like a complicated family dynamic.

A different kind of ghost story—Went Up The Hill--is shooting in New Zealand with its two leads on board, according to a report on Deadline. The feature–which doesn’t have a release window–is being shopped by Bankside.

Vicky Krieps (M. Night Shyamalan’s Old) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things) lead the cast for director Samuel Van Grinsven, who is working from a screenplay he wrote with Jory Anast.

In the film, Jack (Montgomery) travels to New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother, where he meets her grieving widow Jill (Krieps), according to the synopsis.

But things take a turn for the bizarre when “his mother’s ghost returns to inhabit both Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other–and instigating a life-threatening nocturnal dance among the three of them.”

The film is being produced by Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton of Causeway Films, along with Vicky Pope of POP Film.

Keep reading Horror News Network for the latest on Went Up The Hill.

 

Thomas A. Tuna is a comic book veteran who began his writing career back in the ’70s with Charlton Comics, contributing to such horror titles as Ghost Manor, Haunted, The Many Ghosts of Dr. Graves and Ghostly Haunts. Most recently, he has served as a writer and editor (with more than a smattering of horror yarns) for such comic book websites as Hyper Epics and Red Moon Features. Some of his favorite horror flicks include Jaws, Salem’s Lot, Dracula (with Frank Langella) and Blade. His favorite horror comic books? Tomb of Dracula (by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan) and Swamp Thing (by Len Wein and Berni Wrightson).

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