We have an exclusive first look at the haunting teaser for The Occupant of the Room ahead of its world premiere tomorrow at Sitges Film Festival. The 31-minute short marks the narrative debut of Kier-La Janisse, director of Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror and author of House of Psychotic Women. Inspired by […]
We have an exclusive first look at the haunting teaser for The Occupant of the Room ahead of its world premiere tomorrow at Sitges Film Festival.
Inspired by the BBC’s “A Ghost Story for Christmas” specials, Janisse adapted the film from Algernon Blackwood‘s 1909 short story of the same name.
A school teacher’s late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps without a reservation leaves him with no option but to accept the room of a missing hotel guest — leading to a sleepless night full of strange and uncanny occurrences.
Don McKellar (eXistenZ, Crimes of the Future) stars alongside Ben Petrie (BlackBerry) and Delphine Roussel (ABCs of Death 2). Karim Hussain (Infinity Pool,Orphan: First Kill) serves as cinematographer.
Janisse’s Spectacular Optical produces alongside Liane Cunje of Ruby Mannequin Films and Shannon Hanmer (In a Violent Nature). Severin Films’ David Gregory (Color Out of Space) and Carl Daft executive produce alongside Yer Dead Productions’ Rob Cotterill (Infinity Pool).
Following Sitges, The Occupant of the Room will screen at Toronto After Dark in Canada, Mayhem Film Festival in Nottingham, UK, Celluloid Screams in Sheffield, UK, Brooklyn Horror Fest in New York, and and Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam.
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