Solet Graces the project The Faces

Paul Solet released a truly unique film in Grace back in 2009.  It was a hit at Sundance and even made grown men faint in the audience.  I was late to the bandwagon as I bought the film on Blu-Ray previously viewed when a local Blockbuster shut down, but I loved it.  It is a great psychological horror film that handles the content maturely and with well executed craft.  There was no doubt in my mind that we,  as a horror community, would hear from Solet again.  I just didn’t know it would be Jack Chop – the hilarious short Halloween short film that Adam Green put out.  All kidding aside, Solet has just been signed on to direct a new horror project.  Find out the details after the break.

From Variety:

FilmNation Entertainment is looking to “The Faces,” tapping Paul Solet (“Grace”) to direct the horror thriller from Eric Reese’s spec script.
Story centers on a pair of newlyweds who, a year after narrowly escaping a brutal kidnapping, find themselves plagued by a horrifying series of events. They soon discover the existence of an elite underworld society which uses terror as a means of entertainment.

FilmNation and Sonny Mallhi (“The Strangers”) are producing; Chuck Simon is exec producing.

FilmNation president of production Aaron Ryder told Variety that the script is being rewritten with plans to start casting this fall and go into production in the first quarter. He noted that “The Faces” is being aimed as a project with broad commercial appeal rather than as a genre title — along the same lines as its recently completed “House at the End of the Street” starring Jennifer Lawrence.

Solet’s first feature “Grace” premiered at Sundance in 2009, and played subsequently as SXSW, Brussels, Gerardmer and Sitges. “Grace” focuses on a mother who carries a dead fetus to term, but gives birth to a live child with an appetite for blood.

I am very excited to see what Solet does this second time around.