Indie genre label Spooky Pictures, global studio Image Nation and LA and UAE based production company Longevity Pictures have secured a financing partnership with European heavyweight STUDIOCANAL, through its in-house genre label SIXTH DIMENSION, for their upcoming horror thriller feature Home Safety Hotline, which is set to commence production in South Africa in early 2027.
Based on Night Signal Entertainment’s critically acclaimed puzzle video game of the same name, Home Safety Hotlinewill now be co-developed and co-financed by SIXTH DIMENSION, which will also handle worldwide sales and release the film theatrically across STUDIOCANAL’s territory footprint of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Benelux, Poland, Australia and New Zealand.
Durban-born Michael Matthews (Love and Monsters) is directing Home Safety Hotline, with the screenplay written by Nick Tassoni (Lure). The film will be produced by Steven Schneider (The Long Walk, Strange Darling, Late Night with the Devil) for Spooky Pictures, alongside Majd Nassif (Mercy, Locked) for Longevity Pictures and Kameek Lucas Taitt (Empire City, Love and Monsters). Executive producers include Ben Ross (Watcher, Late Night with the Devil) of Image Nation, Jakob Pollack (Weapons) of Spooky Pictures, and Jed Benedict, Head of STUDIO CANAL’s SIXTH DIMENSION.
Set in the US, the film will follow an unemployed loner who must take a job as a phone operator at a mysterious home security company, only to realize they specialize in protecting customers from horrific monsters that come out at night.
Majd Nassif, President of Longevity Pictures, said: “What we love about Home Safety Hotline is how it takes the most ordinary corners of a home: the walls, the basement, the thing in the attic, and turns them genuinely terrifying, then runs the whole nightmare through a struggling company and the unlikely people holding it together. It’s fun, it’s scary, and it’s unlike anything out there. Alongside our partners at Spooky Pictures and Image Nation, and with the support of STUDIOCANAL’s SIXTH DIMENSION we’ve found exactly the right team to bring it to life.”
Head of STUDIOCANAL’s SIXTH DIMENSION Jed Benedict expands “Just as every night I hope the eerie humming downstairs comes from my cheap refrigerator, every day I hope a project like HOME SAFETY HOTLINE crosses our radar. From the moment our good friends at Spooky Pictures, Image Nation and Longevity Pictures first spoke of Night Signal Entertainment’s cult game (of the same name), we knew we wanted to be involved. And when we learned that Michael Matthews would be directing – an exceptional Filmmaker and a proven monster-whisperer himself – with Nick Tassoni devising our handbook through hell, it became impossible to resist”
STUDIOCANAL’s SIXTH DIMENSION is a destination for talented artists – established and emerging – with bold and daring visionary ambition. Pushing the boundaries of genre filmmaking, SIXTH DIMENSION curates a diverse array of cinematic experiences that challenge convention, ignite the imagination and place audiences in the heart of the action. Focused on high concept storytelling across horror, thriller, action and sci fi, the label gives creators a new dimension in which to surprise, shock and entertain.
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