2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Simon Barrett’s Seance

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A writer on horror items such as Horrible Way to Die (201), You’re Next (2011), three segments in the V/H/S projects and another Adam Wingard project in The Guest (2014), Simon Barrett made the big move behidn the camera for his directorial debut back in October of 2019. Seance sees Barrett team with fresh off Sundance with Possessor Cinematographer Karim Hussain, the helmer proposes an American-British horror film starring Suki Waterhouse, Madisen Beaty and Inanna Sarkis.

Gist: Set in an all-girls boarding school haunted by a vengeful spirit, Waterhouse plays Camille, a young woman who arrives at the Fairfield Academy following one of the student’s untimely and violent death.

Production Co./Producers: Russell Ackerman, Isaac Clements, Tomas Deckaj, John Schoenfelder.

2020 American Film Festival in Poland

Prediction: MIDNIGHT

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Hanway.

2020 American Film Festival in Poland

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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