Magnolia Pictures has acquired the North American rights to the supernatural Japanese horror film, ‘Never After Dark’.
Magnolia pictures has acquired North American rights to Japanese horror film, Never After Dark, reports Variety this morning.
The film “follows Airi (Moeka Hoshi) wandering medium who spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi’s experience. As she digs deeper into the house’s past, a secret comes to light — and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force. For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural, but the living.”
Kento Kaku (House of Ninjas), Kurumi Inagaki (House of Ninjas), Mutsuo Yoshioka (Chime), Bokuzo Masana (Toyko Vice) and Tae Kimura (All Around Us) also star.
Dave Boyle wrote/directed the the film.
The film is produced by Signal 181, the Tokyo-based production company founded by actor-producer Kaku and Boyle. CEO Kosuke Tsutsumi also produces alongside Kaku and Boyle, with Aram Tertzakian of XYZ Films, Todd Brown and United Lounge Tokyo’s Toshiyuki Suzuki executive producing.
Said Magnolia Pictures co-CEOs Eamonn Bowles and Dori Begley, “Dave Boyle and crew have delivered an incredibly beautiful and terrifying experience. We can’t wait to share this truly exceptional film with audiences.”
Magnolia is planning a fall theatrical release.
