‘Martyrs’ helmer Pascal Laugier’s latest horror thriller ‘The Tall Man’ has been picked up by Image Entertainment. The company have acquired the US rights to the new horror starring hottie Jessica Biel -below (‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’) to release theatrically and eventually onto DVD, VOD and Blu-ray. The movie, which Laugier also penned, premiered earlier this week at Texas’ SXSW Festival and also showed up at last months Berlin Film Festival. No solid word on a release date yet but we’ll keep you posted. Stephen McHattie (‘Pontypool’), William B. Davis, Samantha Ferris and Katherine Ramdeen also star. Check out the full plot breakdown below.
“Cold Rock, U.S.A. – A darkness hovers upon the town: children have gone missing over the years leaving neither a clue nor a witness. Superstitious locals talk of The Tall Man, a legendary, mysterious dark figure who takes children away never to be seen again. Julia (Biel), is a nurse living in Cold Rock who doesn’t believe in legends. Until one night, waking up with an eerie feeling she goes to her son’s bedroom and find his bed empty. Rushing downstairs she stops dead in her tracks: a huge dark figure stands in the entrance holding her son David. Driven by pure instinct, Julia rushes after them willing to do whatever it takes to get her son back. The chase is on and with it the quest for answers: who is The Tall man? What becomes of the children?”
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