There's a rising market in fantasy/horror films with a strong romance backdriop to them. Bare witness to the Twilight craze and that's your answer for where the craze began. Whether the streak of hor-rom movies will turn into a genuine sub-genre with lasting legs remains to be seen, but for the moment Hollywood is getting the projects moving in the pipeline.
An indie project called Cradlewood is the latest film of this type to be announced. The Hollywood Reporter breaks the story about this new project and reveals that it's nabbed Ian Somerhalder, once of Lost and now of The Vampire Diaries, to play the lead male role. Somerhalder will play a rich man who is heir to a considerable fortune. He's in a relationship with an Australian woman (to be played by Emma Lung) and holding steady in life until he suspects that his partner is pregnant. That's when we find out that the man's family has been cursed: one of his ancestors made a pact with a demon to become rich, but the trade-off was that the man would die when his male offspring would be born. After weird coincidences begin to happen the man comes to believe in the family curse and now believes that he will die when his baby is born.
The Cradlewood script was written by Stephen Sewell and John Paul Chapple but it was based on an idea conceived of by Harry Weinmann, the guy who will also direct the picture. "We see this is as almost like an American-style Pan's Labyrinth in look and feel," said Michel Shane, one of the film's producers. Wow, Pan's Labyrinth? That's not what I would have imagined myself for a twentysomething adult Twilight kind of movie. "It's a perfect segue for the kids who have outgrown Twilight but want something romantic and scary. Our monster will be quite terrifying; she is sexually attractive and monstrous at the same time." Now did you catch what Shane said? The monster in the movie is a she, so my money is on the nasty being a succubus. We just don't get enough movies with succubae.
The movie will lens in Australia beginning in April, when Somerhalder is on-break from filming his hit CW series.
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Doesn't sound very romantic to me. Cursed births and temptations of infanticide. Yeah, just what you want to which whilst cuddled up on the couch with your partner!!!