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Epic Pictures Acquires Genre Trio Through Horror Label Dread Ahead Of Cannes Marche
Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Epic Pictures and its horror brand Dread have acquired global rights to a trio of genre movies ahead of next week’s Cannes virtual Marché.The films are: Andy Collier and Toor Mian’s horror flick Sacrifice, co-starring Barbara Crampton; horror-comedy Uncle Peckerhead, written and directed by Matthew John Lawrence and produced by Nicholas Santos; and La Casa, a Spanish-language horror from Chilean writer-director Jorge Olguín.Sacrifice is set on a Norwegian island and follows a man and his pregnant wife who return to his birth place to deal with an unexpected inheritance after the death of his mother.