Mary Elizabeth Winstead Falls Into The Darkness
Filming begins this summer on The Last Exorcism helmer Daniel Stamm's next psychological thriller, loosely based on Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw'.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who has become something of a modern day scream queen, has agreed to star in The Last Exorcism helmer Daniel Stamm's next psychological thriller The Darkness. The film, which will shoot this summer in Europe, is yet another 'loose' adaptation of Henry James' 1898 published ghost story 'Turn of the Screw', a horror novel already adapted by dozens of TV and film adaptations and influenced countless others. It was also the basis for THE definitive ghost story in cinema history, The Innocents which I reviewed on Blu-ray last year. This contemporary version of the story will follow an American student who is hired by an English tutor, but soon comes to believe that the children she is looking after are haunted. Megan Holley (Sunshine Cleaning) has wrote the script and it really is no surprise to hear the movie is going full steam ahead with Hammer Films' The Woman in Black doing so well at the box office, another tale that has origins being influenced by Henry James' work. We weren't particularly fans of Stamm's The Last Exorcism, a very middling genre effort and Winstead, for all her talent, has starred in a fair few of those already but let's hope he has a new idea of how to tackle this story. source - Screen Daily