Maria Bello joins ghost story Wait Till Helen Comes

Last Updated on July 22, 2021

Maria Bello has joined the ghost story WAIT TILL HELEN COMES, which begins production at the end of the month. Her co-stars are sisters Sophie Nelisse and Isabelle Nelisse.

Dominic James is directing from a script by Victoria Sanchez Mandryk.

Based on the 1986 novel by Mary Downing Hahn, the story goes like this:

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she’s made Molly and Michael’s life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that’s not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can’t get any worse.

But they do — when Helen comes.

I’ve got a goosebump!

Bello has more genre fare waiting in the wings: next month sees her star in the Stephen King adaptation BIG DRIVER, while December brings DEMONIC, which she co-stars in with Frank Grillo.