EXCLUSIVE: Horror thriller The Temple, starring Daniel Zolghadri and Cory Michael Smith, has been acquired for international sales by Paris-based WTFilms, which is launching the film at the American Film Market (AFM) later this month.
Canadian filmmaking duo Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis have directed the English-language film about an orphaned millionaire who believes he has found the ghosts of his dead parents in an abandoned church and enlists a radiation scientist to help him communicate with them.
However, he discovers his parents are trapped in hell and desperate to return to the world of the living.
The cast also includes Danish actress Vic Carmen Sonne and Canada’s Tamara Podemski.
The film is now in post after a shoot in Canada.
The Temple marks the fifth feature from Thomas and Lewis, whose previous credits include White Lie and The Oxbow Cure. They co-wrote the screenplay with Lev Lewis, who is also the film’s editor and composer.
The film is produced by Canada’s Babe Nation Films and Lisa Pictures. Elevation Pictures is handling the Canadian release.
Smith, whose credits include HBO’s Mountainhead and The Sun Never Sets, has two upcoming A24 projects: Ari Aster’s Scapegoat, starring Scarlett Johansson and Jacob Elordi, and Jeremy Saulnier’s Slayground which will open in North America in late January.
Zolghadris’ recent roles include Ancient History, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and Lurker, TIFF premiere Magazine. He is set to star in Elijah Bynum’s Los Angeles-set crime thriller My Darling California.
WTFilms’ AFM slate also includes David Sarrio’s French-language sci-fi horror Quantic, about a group of science students trapped overnight with a deadly entity unleashed during an illegal experiment. ESC Distribution has French rights.
It is also handling Vincent Duquesne’s French-language thriller Under The Blades (L’Effet De Souffle,), starring Camille Chamoux, Aurélia Petit, Matilda Lutz and Thierry Godard. The film centres on a police investigation that uncovers sinister secrets in a village divided over the construction of wind turbines.
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