Down Below: Christmas horror film stars Doug Jones, Bai Ling, Alexis Knapp, Eric Roberts

Last Updated on December 5, 2024

Spyder Dobrofsky is probably not a name you would expect to see credited on Christmas-themed TV movies, but that’s exactly how Dobrofsky got started out, working on the scripts for such flicks as The Housewives of the North Pole and One Christmas Wish, as well as Mom’s Day Away. When he made his feature directorial debut, it was on a movie called Spiral, which was something you’d expect to see a Spyder credited with: a mystery thriller. Now Deadline has broken the news that Dobrofsky is working on a holiday horror movie called Down Below… and he has assembled a solid cast for the project. The legendary Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) stars alongside Bai Ling (The Crow), Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect), and Doug Jones, who is best known for his creature (or heavily made up) performances in films like The Shape of Water, Hellboy, and Hocus Pocus.

Down Below will tell the story of a young sheriff and a criminal suspect who find their lives intertwined when both become haunted by a sinister force on Christmas Eve.

Roberts’ character is “an intelligent police psychologist, who’s having a tough time with his current patient, a cop recently suspended for an act of violence on a civilian.” Details on the roles Ling, Knapp, and Jones are playing have not been revealed.

According to the film’s IMDb page, Hutch Dano (As Certain as Death), David Steen (Django Unchained), Christopher Livingston (Mindhunter), Anna Greene (Play It Cool), Brittany Carel (Keeping Up with the Joneses), Jaclyn Albergoni (Home and Away), Danny Hackin (Natasha), and newcomers William Troy Ford and Didi Alaoui are also in the cast.

Down Below is being produced by Dash Dobrofsky, who also produced Spyder’s Spiral and had an acting role in the film.

In addition to the projects mentioned in the first paragraph, Spyder Dobrofsky also wrote the 2022 Tubi horror film Teardrop, which was directed by I Spit on Your Grave remake director Steven R. Monroe.

Does Down Below sound interesting to you? What do you think of the cast Dobrofsky has put together? Let us know by leaving a comment below.