According to The Hollywood Reporter, Grindstone Entertainment (the new home entertainment division of Mandate Pictures) has picked up the North American rights to THE SUBSTITUTE, a new Danish chiller from director Ole Bornedal. No relation to the vigilante-teacher film series of the same title, this SUBSTITUTE is about sixth-grade students who discover that their new replacement teacher is actually an evil extraterrestrial and try to convince their parents. Bornedal directed both the original 1995 NIGHTWATCH (a.k.a. NATTEVAGTEN) and its 1998 U.S. remake; you can see SUBSTITUTE’s Danish-language official site, with a trailer and more, here. Grindstone, which will team with Ghost House Pictures to release SUBSTITUTE, also has Stateside rights to another horror pic from Denmark’s Nordisk Film International Sales, ROOM 205, which just played LA’s Screamfest.
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