Sam Raimi’s Ghost House to Produce Film Adaptation of Grady Hendrix's "HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE"
Horror author Grady Hendrix’s latest work, “How To Sell A Haunted House” has just been optioned for a feature length film. This is impressive as the book was just released this year and it is already being taken to the big screen.
Legendary Entertainment won movie rights, per Variety, and tapped Coming Home in the Dark filmmaker James Ashcroft to helm the adaptation.
If that doesn’t get your ghost enough, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures will produce the film with Hendrix (My Best Friend’s Exorcism) and Adam Goldworm’s Aperture Entertainment. Romel Adam and Jose Cañas will oversee for Ghost House.
Hendrix will adapt his own novel for the screen as well so that releases some of our anxiety for sure.
The novel’s official synopsis: “When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market. But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…”
We’re stoked to get this book made into a film as it delivers a new horror villain in the form of an evil puppet named Pupkin…we won’t spoil the book for you but we can guarantee he’s nightmare fuel.
MacabreDaily’s Emilie Casper just did a review of the book you can check out below.
Grady Hendrix Slays Family And Frights With Latest Work "HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE"
Stay tuned for more developments on How to Sell a Haunted House.
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