Voltage will launch international sales on the new feature, Play Dead, from director Patrick Lussier (Drive Angry, My Bloody Valentine, Dracula 2000). The film is currently in post-production and will be on display for distributors at the upcoming Marche du Film at Cannes.
Written by Adam Mason and Simon Boys (Blood River, Song Bird, Hangman), Play Dead centers on criminology student Chloe (Bailee Madison) who fakes her own death in order to break into a local small-town morgue to steal a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime. Once inside, she quickly learns that the coroner (Jerry O’Connell) is using the morgue as a front for his sick and twisted business: selling body parts. When the coroner discovers that Chloe is not dead, a frightening game of cat-and-mouse ensues, and Chloe soon finds that the scariest thing about the morgue is not the dead, but the living.
Anthony Turpel (“Love Victor,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”), Chris Butler (”The Good Wife,” Rescue Dawn), Chris Lee (“Legacies”) and Jorge-Luis Pallo (Cry Macho, Eagle Eye, Furious Seven) also star.
Mason is also producer alongside regular Voltage collaborator Lucas Jarach (Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman, Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman), Bradley Pilz (Seberg, The Wolf Hour), and Johannes Roberts (Dir. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, 47 Meters Down). Nicolas Chartier (Dallas Buyers Club, The Hurt Locker), Jonathan Deckter (I Feel Pretty, After We Collided, Ava), Adam Hendricks (Agnes, The Wind, producer Black Christmas), and Greg Gilreath (Agnes, Black Christmas, The Wind) are exec producers along with Boyes.
“Patrick has created a nightmarish vision of the spine tingling script from masters of fright Adam Mason and Simon Boyes,” said Deckter. “Bailee Madison is an electrifying protagonist in this hair raising tale that we know will capture the imagination and mesmerize our distributors. She blew us away with her performance in the film and know Bailee is absolutely heading for stardom.”
“Shot inside the actual morgue of an abandoned, and probably haunted, insane asylum added to the terrifying nature of this non-stop edge-of-your-seat thriller led by master of suspense Patrick Lussier.”
Deckter negotiated the international rights deal with producers Lucas Jarach and Bradley Pilz.
Madison is repped by Gersh, Management 360 and Derek Kroeger at Myman Greenspan. O’Connell is repped by ICM Partners, 3 Arts and Ziffren Law.