{"id":463593,"date":"2026-05-01T17:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/463593\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:45:10","slug":"horror-dangerous-games-to-play-wraps-secures-deals-for-badlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/463593\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror &#8216;Dangerous Games To Play&#8217; Wraps &#038; Secures Deals For Badlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Here\u2019s your first look at upcoming horror Dangerous Games To Play, one of the early films from former Sony exec Scott Strauss and Thunder Road\u2019s genre label <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/badlands\/\" id=\"auto-tag_badlands\" data-tag=\"badlands\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Badlands<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFilming has wrapped on the supernatural horror from director \u00c1ngel G\u00f3mez Hern\u00e1ndez (Crawlers) about four high school students who discover a book of supernatural games that allows them to contact the other side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWritten by Evan Spiliotopoulos (The Pope\u2019s Exorcist), pic is based on Lucia Peters\u2019 novel\u00a0Dangerous Games To Play In The Dark.\u00a0Cast has been confirmed today as Lucas Dutra (Hotel Amor), Sara Sedran (The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox), Danija Areande and Shaun O\u2019Callaghan as the unsuspecting teenagers who realise too late that the games they\u2019re playing are occult rituals designed by a dark entity to claim their souls. Also joining cast is horror veteran Javier Botet (It).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince we first announced the project, Altitude has closed multiple international deals, including ANZ (Umbrella), Benelux (18k), Eastern Europe excluding Poland (Prorom), France (SND), Germany (Wildbunch), Greece (Spentzos), India &amp; Malaysia (MVP), Indonesia (PT Prima), Latin America (B F Distribution), Middle East (Phars), Poland (Kinoswiat), Philippines (Pioneer), Portugal (Lusomundo), Spain (Youplanet), Taiwan (Vie Vision), and Vietnam (Mockingbird).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAltitude will present first footage of the film at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cannes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cannes\" data-tag=\"cannes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes<\/a> market and will continue to discuss in remaining territories. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPic is produced by Scott Strauss (The Pope\u2019s Exorcist) through Badlands, the partnership with Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee\u2019s Thunder Road. Backed by Andrew Schwartzberg and Jon Shiffman\u2019s Renegade Capital, the company\u2019s first feature Crawlers, directed by Gomez and starring Matilda Lutz, is due for release in the U.S., October 2 via Roadside Attractions and Saban Films as exclusively revealed by Deadline yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDutra is represented by Leonor Babo; Sedran is represented by Chiara Mocci at Black &amp; White; Areande is self-repped; O\u2019Callaghan is represented by Christina Sheppard at The Artists Partnership; and Botet is represented by Diana Ellerker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s your first look at upcoming horror Dangerous Games To Play, one of the early films from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[87356,10404,199290,203720,18,117,19,17,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-463593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-badlands","9":"tag-cannes","10":"tag-cannes-market","11":"tag-dangerous-game-to-play","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116500570239661955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}