Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is best known for horror flicks of the family-friendly variety, famously including Gremlins and most recently Monster House. Time will tell where Eli Roth’s Aleister Arcane is pitched on the gore spectrum – at the kid-friendly end too, we’d hazard – but it does now boast the rubbery charms of Jim Carrey.
Carrey is starring in and exec-producing the long-planned adaption of Steven Niles’ IDW comic book, that’s been adapted by Jon Croker (The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death).
If you’re unfamiliar with the comic book, it follows a local TV horror presenter and former LA weatherman Aleister Arcane (Carrey, presumably) who is forced off the air by unsympathetic suits in the town of Jackson, Oklahoma. The towns’ kids are the only ones who make the effort to befriend the old dude, which is handy when he dies and curses the whole place, because they’re the only ones who may be able to lift the hex.
It should be juicy terrain for Carrey to scare up a storm, and a handy showcase for some talented child actors. Roth, meanwhile, has plenty going on, including a newly announced directorial gig on the Bruce Willis-starring Death Wish reboot.