Gary Dauberman to Produce Feature Adaptation of Nat Cassidy’s Horror Novella ‘Rest Stop’

Author Nat Cassidy‘s horror novella, Rest Stop, has been acquired for a feature adaptation by Gary Dauberman‘s Coin Operated, reports Deadline.

Originally appearing in part of Cassidy’s collection, I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, Rest Stop “follows a young musician who finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by an unseen assailant, caught between the horrors on the other side of the door and the horrors rapidly skittering down the walls inside.”

Cassidy will write the script.

Dauberman and Mia Maniscalco will produce through Coin Operated.

Said Cassidy, “I like to describe this novella as Green Room meets Gerald’s Game. It’s the closest thing I’ve yet written to ‘extreme’ horror — though, I wouldn’t say it goes nearly as hard or gets nearly as bleak as the most extreme ‘extreme’ horror stories I’ve read. Regardless, I’m hoping it makes your next visit to a gas station bathroom even scarier than it would otherwise be.”

Green Room meets Gerald’s Game and described as “extreme horror”? Sign me up!

Added Dauberman, “Like the junk food aisle at any sketchy gas station on the side of the road, Rest Stop has a little bit of everything (that may or may not kill you). Its relentless pace, psychological torment, heartfelt character moments, and many squirm-inducing sequences make it the rare horror story that has all the ingredients for a perfectly terrifying experience on the big screen.”

A Bram Stoker nominee, Cassidy is an author perhaps best known for works such as Nestlings and When the Wolf Comes Home.

Dauberman, meanwhile, continues to be a hot name in horror, having first come onto the scene with his script for Annabelle. He has since written the films IT, The Nun, and Salem’s Lot, to name a few. He also directed Annabelle Comes Home and Salem’s Lot. Until Dawn was Coin Operated’s first feature, with André Øvredal’s next to arrive in theaters soon.