James Wan to produce yet another new horror thriller

Like last year’s Lights Out, the film is a foreign import, adapted from a short film by Dutch director Nico Van Den Brink. As with David Sandberg’s feature-length adaptation of his own short, the film will see Wan produce, while Van Den Brink will direct. The short centers on a young woman whose quiet night in is disturbed when she learns that her neighbors—a mother and her two children—have been murdered. Spooks, presumably, ensue.

Lights Out was a big success story for New Line, under a very similar development model, scaring up $150 million at the box office off of a meager $5 million budget. Given that the Warner Bros.-owned studio also just had a major hit with its Stephen King adaptation It, Wan and Van Den Brink have some lofty expectations to live up to with their latest foray into fear.