Backpackers find trouble in abandoned home
Sergio Casci, screenwriter of The Caller, tells Fangoria he is adapting “The Devil’s Staircase.”
The film – set up at Synchronicity Films and Macgowan Films, both Australian production outfits – is based on the novel by Helen FitzGerald which recently hit paperback this year.
Publisher Polygon describes the book like this: Bronny, a young Australian, finds herself down and out in London. She’s a sweet girl who has spent her teenage years in a fearful, cautious bubble. She’s never taken drugs, had sex or killed anyone. Within six weeks she’s done all three. A group of backpackers break into an abandoned London townhouse seeking a rent-free life of debauchery. They don’t realise someone’s already there: a terrified woman bound and gagged in the basement.
Casci and FitzGerald – who are husband and wife – will co-produce.
The Caller was released in a limited theatrical run August 26.
Source: Fangoria
