{"id":69448,"date":"2025-04-14T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=69448"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:25:54","slug":"the-oscar-winning-actress-returns-to-her-horror-roots-in-a-terrifying-new-collaboration-with-the-boogeyman-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/the-oscar-winning-actress-returns-to-her-horror-roots-in-a-terrifying-new-collaboration-with-the-boogeyman-director\/69448\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oscar-winning actress returns to her horror roots in a terrifying new collaboration with The Boogeyman director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Chastain is officially returning to her horror roots with a new spine-tingling project. As reported exclusively by <em>Deadline<\/em>, the Oscar-winning actress is set to star in a film adaptation of <em>Incidents Around the House<\/em>, a novel by <em>Bird Box<\/em> author Josh Malerman. The film will be directed by Rob Savage, known for his atmospheric horror hits <em>Host<\/em> and <em>The Boogeyman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming psychological horror is being developed by genre powerhouses Atomic Monster, Blumhouse, and Universal Pictures. The script comes from <em>Succession<\/em> writer Nathan Elston and follows a young girl living in a haunted house who becomes fixated on a creepy presence she calls \u201cOther Mommy.\u201d Though most plot details remain tightly under wraps, the story is expected to dive deep into eerie family dynamics and psychological terror.<\/p>\n<p>Chastain, who previously left her mark on the horror genre with roles in <em>Mama<\/em> and <em>It: Chapter Two<\/em>, brings major star power to the film. Widely recognized for her award-winning performance in <em>The Eyes of Tammy Faye<\/em>, she\u2019s also known for her work in <em>Zero Dark Thirty<\/em>, <em>Interstellar<\/em>, and <em>The Martian<\/em>, and continues to shape stories off-screen through her production company, Freckle Films.<\/p>\n<p>The producing team includes genre heavyweights like James Wan, Michael Clear, Judson Scott, and Macdara Kelleher, along with Savage, Malerman, and Ryan Lewis. Alayna Glasthal will oversee the film for Atomic Monster.<\/p>\n<p>With Chastain\u2019s commanding presence and Savage\u2019s growing horror credentials, <em>Incidents Around the House<\/em> is poised to deliver an unsettling, emotionally charged experience that horror fans won\u2019t want to miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Chastain is officially returning to her horror roots with a new spine-tingling project. As reported exclusively by Deadline, the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":69449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[6125],"class_list":["post-69448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-jessica-chastain"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}