Play Dead: Bailee Madison says Patrick Lussier’s morgue thriller is horrifying

We’re patiently waiting to hear of a release date for Play Dead, the morgue-set thriller from Patrick Lussier, director of My Bloody Valentine 3D (watch it HERE) and Drive Angry (watch that one HERE). And while we continue to wait to hear when we’re going to have the chance to see the movie, star Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night) has taken the chance to build the hype for the film, describing it as “really horrifying”.

Speaking with Collider, Madison said Play Dead is “very different” and “so messed up. It’s basically just Jerry O’Connell and I the whole movie, and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever done. It’s really… it’s really horrifying. Play Dead takes place in a morgue… it’s really all I can say. It’s really… yeah, my sister can’t watch it. I showed it to her a couple of weeks ago, and she had to get up and leave. She’s like ‘I’m nauseous, like I physically want to throw up’, and I was like ‘Cool! That’s good.’“

As Madison mentioned, she is joined in the cast of Play Dead by Jerry O’Connell (Piranha 3D). Anthony Turpel (Love, Victor), Chris Butler (Designated Survivor), Chris Lee (Legacies), and Jorge-Luis Pallo (Cry Macho) are also in the cast.

Written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, Play Dead centers on

criminology student Chloe (Madison), who fakes her own death to break into a local morgue to steal a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime. Once inside she discovers the coroner (O’Connell) is using the business as a front to sell body parts. When the coroner discovers Chloe is not dead, a game of cat-and-mouse ensues.

Play Dead, which was filmed in the morgue of an abandoned asylum, was produced by Adam Mason, Lucas Jarach, Bradley Pilz, and Madison’s The Strangers: Prey at Night director Johannes Roberts. Nicolas Chartier, Jonathan Deckter, Adam Hendricks, Greg Gilreath, and Simon Boyes serve as executive producers.

Madison also told Collider that she loves working in the horror genre because it “doesn’t have boundaries, which I think is what makes it really exciting. You can explore psychological aspects of it, or just slasher aspects of it, but it doesn’t really have any limits. Which is why I think… especially in the time in my life right now, like I don’t want to be held back I just want to get to have fun and do what I love.“

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