House of Darkness (2022)
Director: Neil LaBute Run Time: 88 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2022
Starring: Gia Crovatin, Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Lucy Walters
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
Premiered at the 2022 Santa Barbara Film Festival and Fantasia International Film Festival. Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out.
About the filmmaker:
Neil LaBute is an accomplished American playwright, film director, screenwriter, and actor, perhaps best-known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. His other feature films include Nurse Betty (2000), Possession (2002), The Shape of Things (2003) based on his play of the same name, and the Nicolas Cage-starring remake The Wicker Man (2006). LaBute is also the creator of the award-winning TV series Van Helsing (2016-2021). He received his Master of Fine Arts from New York University, studied at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and attended the Sundance Institute’s Playwrights Lab.
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