Sam Raimi’s Substitute is Spooky

Sam Raimi’s Ghost House horror genre production label will now branch into a new one — Spooky Pictures, which will focus on delivering horror/thriller films to family audiences. This seems odd coming right off the heels of Disney’s deal with Guillermo Del Toro to create Double Dare You.

The first film to be produced under Spooky Pictures will be The Substitute, a remake of a Danish film by Ole Bornedal. The remake will be directed by Scott Derrickson, who previously helmed The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. The film deals with “a terrified sixth-grade class as the students race to reveal to their parents that their new substitute teacher is an evil alien being.”

The Faculty for minors? I say it has potential.

Raimi will produce the film with his longtime creative partner Rob Tapert, who goes back to the Evil Dead days. Derrickson is writing the film himself alongside Paul Harris Boardman, who also co-wrote Emily Rose.

More details on The Substitute and Spooky Pictures as they develop.