Dominique Swain Gets Snuff in Slaughter

Wait, didn’t they already do this movie, and wasn’t it called “Vacancy”? That’s what I thought when I heard this news about Dominique Swain signing on for the horror movie “Slaughter”, which is about an actress who unknowingly become involved in a snuff film while on location to shoot her new “movie”. The script is by Nathan Brookes and Bobby Lee Darby, and is actually the Slamdance Film Festival Horror Screenplay Competition winner. The film is being produced by Maverick Films genre arm Maverick Red and Angel Baby Entertainment, and is supposed to go into production later this month in Los Angeles, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The film also has a director: Victor Garcia.

Maverick’s Guy Oseary, Mark Morgan and Eric Thompson will produce each film with Angel Baby partners Gregory Segal and John Andrew Gallagher and Slamdance president Peter Baxter. Maverick’s Cheri Wozniak will executive produce the films. The horror script contest is overseen by Slamdance’s John Stoddard and Baxter.

Garcia recently helmed “Return to House on Haunted Hill” for Dark Castle Entertainment and Warner Bros. and the online serial “30 Days of Night: Blood Trails” for Ghost House Pictures. Maverick and Angel Baby have director Gallagher’s feature “Digger” in preproduction for a fall shoot.

The premise is something straight out of a direct-to-DVD movie, and that’s where I’m guessing it’ll end up. And to be honest, that’s where it belongs. Movies like this just don’t do well in theaters.