Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment have announced their next upcoming horror film, I’ll Take Your Dead. This continues their eight-picture deal with Breakthrough, continuing from their previous films such as Bite, Bed of the Dead and Let Her Out. The film will be directed by Chad Archibald (The Heretics) from a script by Jayme LaForest that mixes together crime and paranormal thrillers.
The film stars Aidan Devine (WolfCop), Ava Preston (Blood Honey), Jess Salguerio (The Strain), Brandon McKnight (The Shape of Water), Michael Reventar (Impulse) and Ari Millen (Orphan Black).
I’ll Take Your Dead follows William (Aidan Devine) who has a simple job: he makes dead bodies disappear. This isn’t something he likes to or even wants to do but through circumstances out of his control, his little farm house in the country has become a dumping ground for the casualties of the gang related murders in the nearby city. His daughter Gloria (Ava Preston) has become used to rough looking men dropping off corpses and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house. After a woman’s body is dumped at the house, William begins his meticulous process when he realizes she’s not actually dead. As the gang activity increases, William patches the woman up and holds her against her will until he can figure out what to do with her. As they begin to develop a very unusual respect for each other, the woman’s murderers get word that she’s still alive and make plan to go finish what they started.
“We’ve been in development of I’ll Take Your Dead for a while,” said Archibald. “Usually we find ourselves in production most of the year, however recently we’ve taken time off to really focus on this film. It’s incredible to see it finally coming to together. This is by far Black Fawn Films & Breakthrough Entertainment’s biggest collaboration yet, and we promise you haven’t seen anything like this.”
“Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment together have strengthened a brand that genre fans clearly recognize for its chills and high entertainment value,” said Nat Abraham of Breakthrough. “We are delighted to, once again, be working together on I’ll Take Your Dead, their latest film that will further solidify Black Fawn’s place in the horror genre.”
The film will be produced by Black Fawns’ Archibald, Christopher Giroux and Cody Calahan with Jeff Maher shooting the film. Black Fawn and Breakthrough are also in development of a TV series called The Cleaners, to begin production after I’ll Take Your Dead.
I’ll Take Your Dead is currently shooting in Orillia, Ontario.
