EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired Eye For An Eye, a horror flick starring Whitney Peak from veteran music video director Colin Tilley.
Directed by Tilley from a screenplay by author and artist Elisa Victoria, the film also stars S. Epatha Merkerson (Chicago Med), Golda Rosheuvel (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story), and Finn Bennett (True Detective: Night Country). Vertical will release the film on June 20 in select theatrical markets and on demand.
The film follows Anna (Peak), who is grieving the sudden death of her parents and relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother (S. Epatha Merkerson) she’s never met. Isolated and in unfamiliar surroundings, she falls in with a rough crowd led by a couple of teens (Finn Bennett and Laken Giles). When she becomes a bystander to an unforgivable act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman – the twisted soul of a tormented child who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they finally wake.
Eye For An Eye was produced by Ley Line Entertainment (Everything Everywhere All At Once). Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, Rachael Fung, and Nate Kamiya serve as producers. David Darby, Lauren Shelton, Elisa Victoria, and Susan Kirr are executive producers.
The deal was negotiated by Tony Piantedosi and Rachel White on behalf of Vertical and by WME Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.
Vertical’s current and upcoming slate includes 2024 Tribeca selection Sacramento starring Michael Angarano, Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart and Maya Erskine penned and directed by Angarano, Fight or Flight directed by James Madigan and starring Josh Hartnett and Katee Sackhoff, and the 2024 SXSW competition title I Don’t Understand You co-directed and co-written by David Joseph Craig and Brian William Crano and starring Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells.
