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Perhaps because it’s October –the month of Halloween – ye olde scribbler of pop culture words has been bumping into a veritable plethora of news about new and upcoming horror films. That’s fine by this former card-carrying subscriber to Fangoria; when done right, nothing can quite simulate a real nail-biter along the lines of Rosemary’s Baby, The Haunting, The Blair Witch Project, It Follows or The Innocents. The appeal of the horror genre is akin to that sick thrill most of us get right before our rollercoaster crests on top of that steep precipice, seconds away from making that dreaded yet anticipated plunge. It’s fun and scary all rolled into one and while it may not be everyone’s cup of coffee, it sure as heck is mine.
Word from ‘round the Hollywood Reporter campfire has it that there’s a new horror thriller coming down the pike entitled The Lot, and this one surely sounds intriguing enough: A young couple is down on their luck and find themselves homeless. You think that’s bad? Well yeah, of course it is, but this being an horror film things go from bad to worse for this modern-day Romeo and Juliet as they find themselves stalked and harassed by a band of masked strangers in a suddenly very secluded parking lot. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Actors Tedra Millan of Fosse/Verdon fame and Michael Reagan (Lovecraft Country) will essay the roles of the beleaguered couple wanting nothing more than easy shopping cart access (I say, tongue firmly planted in cheek). The filmmakers are playing a little bit of word-salad with The Lot, staying away from the horror label and instead referring to it as an “anti-American dream thriller” that analyzes mental illness and America’s “obsession with capitalism.”
Jason Miller will be directing the film, with shooting set to take place entirely in Chicago over a four week shoot. Garnering the project more than a fair amount of ink is the news that it is one of the first in-production movies to instate fairer terms for its crew than the ones officially scared up by union IATSE recently. According to Seth Savoy, the co-founder of production house Speakeasy Pictures, this means that each work day on the set of The Lot will be capped at no more than ten hours.
The Lot – whether you want to call it a horror movie or an anti-American dream thriller – should haunt local multiplexes sometime in 2022.
