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The Culling
- Stephen Herman
- Set Up
- No Agent
- Horror
- Black List
- 2020
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Market: Mon, 22 Jun 2020Sold: Mon, 22 Jun 2020
Director: David F. Sandberg
Producer: David F. Sandberg, Lotta Losten, Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, Scott Stoops
Manager (Good Fear Content)
LawyerMarios Rush (Marios Rush)
StudioLionsgate
6-22-2020 - Swedish-born Sandberg is coming off Shazam!, which grossed over $366M with Zachary Levi in the title role. Sandberg and Losten got started in 2013 when their short film, "Lights Out." became a viral sensation with over 100 million views.
Director: David F. Sandberg
Producer: David F. Sandberg, Lotta Losten, Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, Scott Stoops
Manager (Good Fear Content)
LawyerMarios Rush (Marios Rush)
StudioLionsgate
6-22-2020 - Swedish-born Sandberg is coming off Shazam!, which grossed over $366M with Zachary Levi in the title role. Sandberg and Losten got started in 2013 when their short film, "Lights Out." became a viral sensation with over 100 million views.
A troubled priest confines himself to a remote cabin in the middle of the woods where he attempts to make a last stand against the demon that terrorized his family when he was a child.
A troubled priest faces the demon from his past with the intention to kill it, or be killed.
When a priest's mentor passes away unexpectedly, his past begins to haunt him. Now he must face and defeat the demon that has plagued him since childhood.
A priest is stalked by a demon as he mourns the death of his mentor, leading him further into his alcoholic obsession.
A priest who left the church due to a lack of faith in God confronts the demon from his past and has to defeat him.
Film
Faith/Spirituality, Horror, Dark, Demons, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Dog, Friends/Friendship, Mother/Son, Suspenseful, Violence/Violent
104
PG-13
Medium
M
White / European
35
Average
Doctor Sleep (2019)
The Conjuring (2013)
"The Exorcist" (1973)
"The Rite" (2011)
Present / Approximately one week
70% Cabin: main room, bedroom, kitchen, cellar, bathroom / 10% house: living room, study, basement, foyer, bedroom / church / confessional booth / SUV / high school gymnasium / woods / construction site / animal shelter
A WATCHER (unknown), dressed in a thick coat, enters a ransacked cabin and finds a tape recorder. He plays the tape and sees an exhausted man, DARYL COLLINS (25), telling his story.
A week earlier, Daryl attends the funeral of his mentor FATHER LIAM (70s). After the service, Daryl goes through Father Liam's study and finds books about demonology. His fellow priest FATHER CURTIS (50s), shows him Father Liam's basement. There, the walls are covered in bible pages. Father Liam had also attempted to cut a figure into the door before dying. Daryl knows about the basement, but does not tell Father Curtis.
After attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where he meets an inquisitive woman named JANET (35), Daryl is stalked by an inhuman creature. Daryl drives to his cabin in the woods. He dreams of an old hunting trip he went on with his mother ERIN (40s).
Daryl rescues Father Liam's dog PARKER (2) from the animal shelter. He visits Father Liam's basement with Parker, but is chased from the house by an invisible creature.
Once at the cabin, Daryl boards up all the windows.
Daryl leaves the cabin briefly to find a bottle of whiskey in his car. While there, he...
A week earlier, Daryl attends the funeral of his mentor FATHER LIAM (70s). After the service, Daryl goes through Father Liam's study and finds books about demonology. His fellow priest FATHER CURTIS (50s), shows him Father Liam's basement. There, the walls are covered in bible pages. Father Liam had also attempted to cut a figure into the door before dying. Daryl knows about the basement, but does not tell Father Curtis.
After attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where he meets an inquisitive woman named JANET (35), Daryl is stalked by an inhuman creature. Daryl drives to his cabin in the woods. He dreams of an old hunting trip he went on with his mother ERIN (40s).
Daryl rescues Father Liam's dog PARKER (2) from the animal shelter. He visits Father Liam's basement with Parker, but is chased from the house by an invisible creature.
Once at the cabin, Daryl boards up all the windows.
Daryl leaves the cabin briefly to find a bottle of whiskey in his car. While there, he...