Jennifer Chambers Lynch has helmed episodes of “The Walking Dead” and is pretty much guaranteed to have creepy in her DNA — David Lynch is her father. So it’s fitting that she’ll direct a genre film titled “Hellfest.” Deadline reports that the movie “involves a Halloween night of fun turns deadly at a horror theme park when a costumed killer begins slaying unsuspecting patrons who believe that it’s all part of the show. Production will begin this winter at an undisclosed theme park.”
Lynch made her big-screen directorial debut with 1993’s “Boxing Helena,” a sordid tale about a surgeon who performs an unwelcome surgery on a woman he is obsessed with. Besides “The Walking Dead,” Lynch’s work in TV includes helming episodes of “Finding Carter,” “Teen Wolf,” and “Quantico”
CBS Films president Terry Press said the production arm has “been waiting for exactly the right director. Jennifer came to us with both the passion and the vision necessary to make ‘Hellfest’ a terrifying Halloween tradition much like the growing phenomenon of the theme park horror nights enjoyed by millions the world over.”
Gale Ann Hurd, who produces for “The Walking Dead,” will produce this project.
