Anika Noni Rose to star in Better Watch Out director’s Limbo

UNDOCUMENTED and BETTER WATCH OUT director Chris Peckover is gearing up to go into production on his third horror film, and the project has just landed its first cast member. 

Anika Noni Rose of Stephen King's Bag of Bones, Bates Motel, and ASSASSINATION NATION has signed on to star in Peckover's supernatural horror film LIMBO.

Written by Peckover and Matthew Jennison, LIMBO tells the story of 

a young mother whose body becomes possessed by something evil, rendering her a disembodied spirit and a ghost in her own house. As this demonic double takes over her life and threatens to harm her family, she must find a way to protect her loved ones while also finding a way back to her body before it’s too late.

Rose told Deadline that LIMBO is about more than just possession, as the story "features a family dealing with loss. It deals with gentrification happening to the family, familial love, how to express emotion and how family communication breaks down and in turn, breaks down everything around us." What the actress really connected with is the material's theme of grief.

As an American culture, we don’t deal with grief. When something hits us that’s huge and insurmountable, we don’t always know how to move through that and take our family with us instead of becoming an island of pain."

Tim Palen is producing LIMBO under his Barnyard Projects banner, alongside Keith and Jess Calder of Snoot Entertainment. Snoot's Chris Harding is co-producer. The film is being financed by Miramax.

I enjoyed BETTER WATCH OUT, so I'm totally on board to see what's next from Peckover. LIMBO is set to start filming in January..