David Slade Will Direct a Demonic Horror Film Called COME CLOSER
David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) is set to direct a new horror thriller called Come Closer.
The film is based on a novel of the same name by Sara Gran, and the story follows a “young architect who may be the victim of demonic possession or simply may be losing her mind.” It sounds like it will make for an interesting horror movie and here are some additional details thanks to the book description:
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.
The new voice in Amanda's head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. A book on demon possession suggests that the figure on the shore could be the demon Naamah, known to scholars of the Kabbalah as the second wife of Adam, who stole into his dreams and tricked him into fathering her child. Whatever the case, as the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed.
Come Closer will be produced by Academy Award nominee Michael London (Sideways, The Visitor, Milk). This is a different kind of project for him to take on but with Slade on board, I’m expecting it to be a decent horror flick.
What do you think about Slade taking on this project?