EXCLUSIVE: Masters of the Air star Ben Radcliffe has boarded 14th Century England-set ghost movie The Face Of Horror.
Radcliffe joins Jonah Hauer-King (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Kristine Froseth (The Buccaneers), Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals), Leo Suter (Vikings: Valhalla) and Bella Heathcote (Pieces of Her), who we revealed were starring in Anna Biller’s movie last week.
Radcliffe plays Roger in The Face of Horror. Loosely inspired by the Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan, The Face of Horror follows Edward Carnifex (Hauer-King), who marries his long time love Eleanor (Froseth), only to get bored of her and instead court a wealthy noblewoman (Heathcote). But it is only a matter of time before Eleanor will be forced to take a bloody revenge. Bamber plays Eleanor’s sister Beatrice, and Suter is Edward’s squire and Beatrice’s suitor Richard.
Biller, director of cult horror movie The Love Witch, will begin filming on her third film in Prague in July.
Radcliffe is coming off the back of playing Lieutenant John Brady in all but one episodes of Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning Masters of the Air, in which he starred opposite the likes of Callum Turner, Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan. Past credits include The Witcher and Anatomy of a Scandal. Upcoming is British period comedy Fackham Hall from comedian Jimmy Carr.
Mike Goodridge, UK producer of Netflix’s upcoming Ballad Of A Small Player and Cannes movie Left Handed Girl, is producing under his Good Chaos banner. Biller, who has written the original screenplay, also produces. Worldwide sales are handled by Embankment Films which is co-representing domestic with WME. Biller, Goodridge and James Bowsher are producers on the film, and Jared Sanford is the executive producer. Sirena Film is servicing the film in Czech Republic. David Mullen, who worked with Biller on The Love Witch, is the director of photography.
Radcliffe is repped by John Summerfield at Waring McKenna in the UK, Sandra Chang at Anonymous Content in the US and Caroline Fergusson and Grace Yeoman at Pinnacle PR.
