Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment has set a wide US theatrical release next month for Sean Ellis’s Sundance 2021 werewolf thriller The Cursed (formerly Eight For Silver).
The film will open on February 18 more than a year after it premiered at Sundance. Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly and Alistair Petrie star in the story set in the late 19th century about a pathologist who arrives at a remote country village plagued by killings and rumours of a curse.
Ellis, whose credits include Metro Manila, Anthropoid and Cashback, produced alongside Liddell and Pete Shilaimon. Alison Semenza and Jacob Yakob are executive producers.
“Sundance is always an incredible place to showcase your work,” said Elis. “In the time that has followed that valuable experience, we took the opportunity to invigorate the film with an updated score by Lorne Balfe; we changed much of the CGI and decided to put back much of the original in-camera effects. We also elevated elements of the story that pay tribute to the incredible multitude of layers that live within the horror genre.”
LD’s Liddell and Shilaimon said, “We set out to make a genre film with an incredibly talented filmmaker. Sean Ellis has created a story that is so much more than that: it’s timely, scary as hell, and most importantly unique. We are thrilled for people to finally see Sean’s striking vision on the big screen.”
The company financed and produced the documentary Introducing, Selma Blair, while previous titles include Judy, Jackie, Biutiful and Biggest Little Farm.
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