High School Creature Feature LICE Adds TEACUP Star Emilie Bierre & More

Get that expensive Olaplex shampoo ready, because Highland Film Group’s new movie is going to make your scalp itch. They’ve just announced that Teacup star Emilie Bierre and Joelle Farrow have just joined the cast of Lice, a movie about an outbreak that drives people mad in ways they’d never expected. 

Bierre and Farrow join a cast that already includes Emile Hirsch, Barbarian’s Justin Long, and Kevin Connolly, as well as Riley Davis, Tom Keat, Annamarie Kasper, Cooper Levy, Christian Meer, Gage Munroe, Devyn Nekoda, Sabrina Saudin, and Milton Torres Lara. The film’s synopsis is as follows: 

A horror mashup of The Breakfast Club and Lord of the Flies, follows a deadly outbreak of the parasite at a Long Island high school in the 1980s.  When the school goes under military lockdown, the itch-crazed students turn on each other in a desperate struggle to survive.  Emile Hirsch stars as burned-out science teacher Mr. Shanker, who finds new purpose as he investigates the bloodthirsty mites, Justin Long as Principal Van, a man who is out of his depth and soon out of his mind, and Connolly as the tenacious Detective Sikorski, the desperate cop on the outside racing against time to contain the outbreak before it consumes the entire town.

“I was thrilled to be asked to join this ride,” Bierre said in a statement. “What immediately drew me in was Jonathan’s unique vision for the film — it’s creepy, imaginative, and completely unexpected. I’m very excited for all horror fans to discover what we’ve been working on.”

Directed by cinematographer Jonathan Bensimon in his feature debut, Lice