‘The Empty Man’s’ James Badge Dale, Abigail Cowen and Edouard Philipponnat have joined psychedelic nightmare thriller, ‘The Guide’.
James Badge Dale (The Empty Man, pictures above), Abigail Cowen (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) and Edouard Philipponnat (Napoleon) are set to star in the psychedelic psychological thriller, The Guide, reports Deadline this morning.
The film marks the latest project from husband and wife team, Inon and Natalie Shampanier (Paper Spiders). Inon will direct from a script co-written with Natalie Shampanier, who also stars.
“Cowen will play a young woman who enters a psilocybin mushroom retreat in an effort to heal past traumas, surrendering herself to the care of a psychedelic therapy guide (Badge Dale). As the guide’s motives come under suspicion, the past bleeds into the present and the session unravels into a psychedelic nightmare.”
Horror fans will be more than familiar with Badge Dale and Cowen. The former starred in the cult favorite, The Empty Man–what a picture–while Cowen appeared in over twenty episodes of Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”. I look forward to watching them freak the hell out together.
Said Inon Shamanier, “This psychedelic therapy thriller is designed to be a visceral inward journey, and I am thrilled to go on this journey with the incredibly talented James Badge Dale, Abigail Cowen and Edouard Philipponnat.”
Producers are Anne Clements and Colleen Comer.
Production is now underway in Syracuse, NY.
