“Stranger Things’” Francesca Reale and “Succession’s” Dagmara Domińczyk are attached to star in horror drama Surgat, from Michael Borowiec & Sam Marine Borowiec, the New York-based writing-directing team behind Man Underground, which won best first feature at the 2016 Fantasia Film Festival, reports Variety.
Josh Ruben (Scare Me, Werewolves Within) is producing the project with Sean Lyness.
“Currently at the financing stage, Surgat turns on a young pregnant woman, Heather, whose life is thrown into chaos when a demonic spirit is released upon her home, possessing her family members one by one and turning them against her.
“Heather is forced to learn what lengths she’ll go to in order to save her baby – and herself,” the film’s synopsis runs.
“Rather than just possessing his victim, Surgat, the demon, possesses everyone else around his target, ultimately forcing them to become the monsters they fear most: Their true selves, Michael Borowiec and Sam Marine explain.”
“Equal parts supernatural horror and psychological drama –Hereditary meets Rosemary’s Baby – Surgat explores the complex relationships of a family struggling with grief, poverty, addiction and denial, and what happens when secrets that have long been buried start to surface,” they add.
Surgat will be presented to potential co-production partners, financiers and sales agents at the Frontières Official Selection Pitch Session held this Thursday, July 21.
Pictured: Dagmara Domińczyk in HBO’s “Succession”
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