Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob) returns to horror with a remake of Kevin S. Tenney’s 1986 Witchboard, with today bringing a new trailer ahead of the pic's August 15 release date.
Starring in Witchboard is Stranger Things‘ Jamie Campbell Bower, as well as Madison Iseman (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders in the Building), Antonia Desplat (Shantaram) and Charlie Tahan (Ozark).
Russell directs the R-rated Witchboard from a script co-written with Greg McKay. The pair also produced alongside Kade Vu and Bernie Gewissler, in an A-Nation Media production. Exec producers are Eric Schiermeyer, Sarah Buxton, John Paul Isham and Walter Josten.
In Witchboard:
Emily, her fiancé Christian and a group of their friends open an organic café, refurbishing an old carriage house in New Orleans’ French Quarter. But a darkness descends over Emily when she discovers an ancient pendulum board, once used to summon spirits.
Christian seeks help for Emily from occult expert Alexander Babtiste, but Babtiste has secrets of his own, knowing the fateful bloodlines that binds them all to the Witchboard. A modern coven of White Witches, a masked ball at Babtiste’s mansion, and the legacy of Naga Soth, the Queen of Witches, are all part of a dangerous game that puts Emily’s very soul at risk.
In a previous interview with Bloody Disgusting , Russell further teased what fans can expect from Witchboard, and his return to the genre:
“I put everything I hadn’t tried into this film. I hope that fans of my work will recognize my touch. But we have dreams; we have deadly hallucinations. We have body swaps; we have literal time travel. It’s fun in that regard, but number one is to scare the hell out of people, and I think we’ve done that, too.”
Check out the new trailer and poster for Witchboard below:
