International sales firm Highland Film Group just rolled out the first look photo for Lice, the new horror comedy from debut director/cinematographer Jonathan Bensimon. Justin Long (Barbarian, Jeepers Creepers), Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Annamarie Kasper, and Kevin Connolly (Entourage, The Notebook) star from a script by Anthony Musella and Lizze Gordon.
A gruesome death. A sealed-off high school. Something crawling beneath the skin. When a student’s terrifying breakdown shocks a classroom, an almost invisible parasite spreads through the halls, instantly twisting teens into maniacs. Locked inside with no escape, students and staff spiral into violence and hysteria. Amid the chaos, Principal Van (Justin Long) struggles to maintain control, drowning his anxiety in alcohol before losing his grip on reality – and his head. Burned-out science teacher Mr. Shanker (Emile Hirsch) steps up as the only adult trying to make sense of the madness, uncovering traces of a government experiment gone wrong. Outside the quarantined halls, Detective Sikorski (Kevin Connolly) races to contain the outbreak before it consumes the entire town. The real horror isn’t what’s under your skin – it’s what it makes you do.
Lice is produced Kevin Connelly, Jeremy Alter (David Lynch’s Inland Empire, The Up and Comer) and Gary Goldman (Entourage, The Up and Comer) under Connolly’s ActionPark Productions banner. Production recently wrapped in Canada.
Check out the still below:
