Searchlight Pictures Closing $12 Million WW Rights Deal For Sundance Thriller ‘The Night House’

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Searchlight Pictures is near to closing a deal for the worldwide rights to Sundance Midnight section title The Night House.Rebecca Hall stars in the thriller from David Bruckner (The Ritual), playing a widow who uncovers her deceased husband's secrets.Ben Collins andLuke Piotrowski penned the screenplay for the movie, which also starsSarah Goldberg, Stacy Martin, Evan Jonigkeit, and Vondie Curtis-Hall.David Goyer, Keith Levine, and John Zois produced the movie, with Sebastien Raybaud,Francois

A knack for creepy atmospherics and individual scares goes a long way in the horror genre, and it takes “The Night House” pretty far. Though this tale of a new widow’s apparent haunting gets progressively lost in a narrative maze that’s complicated without being particularly rewarding, director David Bruckner suffuses the action with enough dread and unpleasant goosings to make this an above-average genre exercise.

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