Full Moon’s Miskatonic U: The Resonator – Michael Pare, Amanda Wyss to star

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Last month, Full Moon announced that they're gearing up to head into production on Miskatonic U: The Resonator, a film inspired by both the works of H.P. Lovecraft and beloved genre director Stuart Gordon. Now the folks at Dread Central have learned that Miskatonic U is going to star a pair of icons: Michael Paré, who recently starred in John "The Arrow" Fallon's film The Shelter (watch it HERE), and Amanda Wyss of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street (watch that HERE).

Written and directed by William Butler, Miskatonic U has the following synopsis: 

Set in the fictional college campus Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts where all sorts of fantastic and unworldly events have been known to unfold in Lovecraft lore, Miskatonic U: The Resonator follows six gifted students as they navigate life after one of them, Crawford Tillinghast, builds a machine known as the "Resonator." 

The machine allows one to experience multiple dimensions while navigating the unsavory beasts that dwell within them. But things get complicated when Tillinghast realizes that the prototype of his creation has not only released murderous and deadly creatures into his world, but also has affected his own reality.

Paré is taking on the role of Professor Ian Wallace, "a brilliant scientific mind and one-time colleague of Crawford Tillinghast's recently deceased inventor father.  Professor Wallace is the head of academics at the Miskatonic University campus, a driven man who divides his time between supervising the school and keeping an eye on Crawford, who he is convinced is secretly carrying on his father's work to bend time and see into other dimensions. Little does anyone know, Wallace's reasons for monitoring the young man's progress are far more nefarious than he lets on."

Wyss will be playing Professor McMichaels, "the campus spirituality expert and the head of the religious history studies branch of Miskatonic U.  McMichaels is no fan of both Crawford and his recently passed father's theory that the world is composed of multiple dimensions and universes and that heaven and hell are imaginary realms."   

Full Moon has said the film will feature "cameos and performances from many of the original cast members that have long been associated with Gordon and the films from Band's Empire Pictures universe". Along with that, it will have plenty of "gooey practical special make-up effects".

With the casting of Paré and Wyss, Miskatonic U: The Resonator is off to a strong start. I'll be keeping an eye on it as it continues to move forward.