Set on Halloween 1938, the new movie from Dracula Untold director Gary Shore is titled Haunting of the Queen Mary (formerly The Queen Mary), and Vertical Entertainment has announced today that the horror movie officially sets sail on August 18, 2023. The film will be released in select theaters and On Demand on the same day.
Watch the official trailer for Haunting of the Queen Mary below, which borrows more than a few elements from The Shining for a supernatural horror tale set on the high seas.
The film is based on the real-life ocean liner, said to be one of the most haunted places in the world. Shooting took place aboard the actual Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.
A luxury ocean-liner graced by generations of the rich and famous, HMS Queen Mary is now celebrated – and feared – as “One of the World’s Most Haunted Places” (Time Magazine). In the early twentieth century, shipping lines competed to be the fastest to complete a transatlantic crossing. But among the most famous record-holders was the RMS Queen Mary, which held the record for fourteen years, but now stands encased in concrete at Long Beach, California, where it has been used for many years as a luxury hotel and tourist attraction. The ship has a lengthy history of visitors reporting seeing ghosts and visions in its rooms and on its decks, making it the perfect setting for paranormal goings-on on the big screen.
The upcoming horror film “is a psychological horror which explores the mysterious and violent events surrounding one family’s voyage on Halloween night (1938) and their interwoven destiny with another family onboard the infamous ocean liner present day.”
The two families will become “violently entangled” in the haunting ghost story.
Alice Eve (“Star Trek Into Darkness”), Joel Fry (“Game of Thrones”), Nell Hudson (“Texas Chainsaw Massacre”), William Shockley (“Death in Texas”) and BAFTA award-winner Lenny Rush (“Am I Being Unreasonable?”) star in Haunting of the Queen Mary.
Stephen Oliver and Tom Vaughan wrote the script with revisions by Shore.
The film is produced by Brett Matthew Tomberlin (Winchester) of Imagination Design Works; Thorsten Schumacher of Rocket Science; Lars Sylvest; Nigel Sinclair and Nicholas Ferrall of White Horse Pictures (The Woman in Black); and Mali Elfman.
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