Deadline reports that Vivian Kerr (pictured above in Castle) is set to direct and star in Séance, a psychological horror film set in California in the 1890s.
Scottie Thompson (12 Monkeys), Connor Paolo (Friend Request), and Jilon VanOver (The Field Guide to Evil) will also star in the period film. Kerr is directing from her own script, which made Wscripted’s second Cannes Screenplay List in 2022 as one of the best unproduced scripts from female writers.
Séance will follow “a female novelist (Thompson) who is contemplating having an affair with her first husband (VanOver), whose second wife (Kerr) claims to be haunted by her dead child.”
Paolo will play Thompson’s current husband. A struggling portrait painter, he has secrets of his own…
Words: Samantha McLaren (@themeatispeople)