Netflix is Developing a John Hughes-Inspired Coming-of-Age Slasher Film with James Wan

Netflix is developing a new horror thriller that fans are going to flip over. It's a coming-of-age slasher movie called There's Someone Inside the House and it's being developed by Stranger Things producer 21 laps and horror movie master James Wan!

If that's not enough to get you excited, the movie is based on Stephanie Perkins’ novel which follows "a young girl whose high school friends inexplicably begin to die in a series of gruesome murders." The tone of the film is also said to be similar to stranger things and it described as a "1980s and ’90s slasher movie meets a John Hughes coming-of-age tale like The Breakfast Club."

I'm in! As of right now, Wan is only set to produce the film but there seems to be a chance that he could end up directing it if he wanted to, which would be amazing! I really hope that he does end up directing the film, but even if he doesn't I like the concept. 

The screenplay for the film comes from Henry Gayden (Earth To Echo), who also recently wrote DC’s Shazam! Below you'll find a synopsis for Perkins’ novel:

More than a year after her parents sent her away from Hawaii to live with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska, Makani Young is still adjusting to her new life. She’s made a small group of close friends and even flirted with romance, but her past in Hawaii is still hard to forget. And then … one by one the students of her new high school begin to die in a series of gruesome murders. Makani doesn’t know who’s next on the list. Between this, and a secret scorching relationship with the school weirdo, this school year may turn out to be one to die for … literally.

What are your thoughts on this film project? With the talent involved with bringing the story to life do you think it'll be good?

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