Emilia Clarke Horror Film ‘When Darkness Loves Us’ Sells to Bleecker Street, Aims for 2027 Release https://t.co/7aZooju3lr
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Emilia Clarke’s new horror film ‘When Darkness Loves Us’ has been sold to Bleecker Street and will be released next year. James Ashcroft wrote and directed the film, which is adapted from Elizabeth Engstrom’s 1985 novella of the same name.
Clarke plays a young woman who, after surviving 15 years trapped in an underground cave system, returns to the surface to reclaim the family she believes is hers, “no matter the monstrous cost”.
“My passion for Elizabeth Engstrom’s story remains boundless; what an absolute gift it has been bringing this work to the screen,” said Ashcroft. “With When Darkness Loves Us, Liz never lets us forget that the actions of her characters are by turns both tragic and monstrous — no matter how sympathetic they may be. But it’s their indelible humanity that can’t be so easily shaken off afterwards, and that’s when we find ourselves at home in the darkness with them.”
