The supernatural horror movie Spin the Bottle, written by John Cregan and directed by Gavin Wiesen, was recently wrapped. The film was financed by Fortress Media Group, with Will Hayes, Jim Valdez, Kyle Hayes, and Chris Barish producing the picture. Harrison Kordestani serves as executive producer, while Scot Ruggles is co-producer.
The film’s plot centers on a group of teenagers in a small Texas town who decide to hang out in the abandoned house where a gruesome massacre once occurred. That’s always a good idea, especially in a horror movie. The kids decide to play spin the bottle, where usually the worst thing that can happen is you end up kissing someone you don’t want to. Instead, they end up unleashing a deadly force upon the town.
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Leading the cast will be Tanner Stine and Kaylee Bryan, with Justin Long and Ali Larter in supporting roles. Rounding out the cast are Christopher Ammanuel (Black Lightning), Ryan Whitney (Reagan), Angela Halili (American Horror Stories), Samantha Cormier (Legion), Hal Cumpston (The Greatest Beer Run Ever), and Tony Amendola (The Curse of La Llorona) round out the cast.
Wiesen made his feature film directorial debut with the romantic drama The Art of Getting By, starring Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, and Angarano, which was released in 2011. His sophomore feature film was All Nighter, starring Lip Tipton, Emile Hirsch, and J.K. Simmons. It was released in 2017. Spin the Bottle will be the first horror movie Wiesen directed.
The Stars of Spin the Bottle
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Stine appeared in the thriller series Impulse, which starred Maddie Hasson in the lead role. Impulse, loosely based on the book of the same name by Steven Gould, served as a loose sequel to the 2008 film Jumper, also based on a book by Gould, which starred Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson. Stine also appeared in The Haunted Hathaways, which wasn’t a horror story despite being about ghosts.
Bryant is best known for starring in Legacies, the second spin-off to The Vampire Diaries, until leaving about mid-way through Season 4 to pursue other projects. Ironically, that was the same season that the show got canceled. Bryant also appeared in a couple of episodes of Santa Clarita Diet, which starred Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson, and Skyler Gisondo.
Long is steadily building up quite the horror resume. Most recently, he was in Barbarian, starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgärd, and House of Darkness, alongside Kate Bosworth. Besides the other horror movies he’s done, he was also in the Season 2 finale of Creepshow, which also guest-starred Hannah Fierman and D’Arcy Carden (in addition to Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing using archive footage).
Larter was in the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill, alongside Geoffery Rush and Chris Kattan. She was also in the first two Final Destination films, playing one of the few characters to appear in more than one installment. Besides playing Claire Redfield in two Resident Evil movies, Larter was also in Season 2 of Creepshow, guest starring in an episode alongside C. Thomas Howel.
