Dennis Quaid toplines the cast of the film which follows a 16-year-old boy who struggles to expose the grim secrets surrounding a “haunted” house after the death of his best friend.
Beneath the Darkness will open in a limited theatrical release on January 6.
In the film, Ely Vaughn (Quaid) is a pillar of the community in tiny Smithville, Texas. The towns mortician, Ely has been revered since his days as the high schools star quarterback. But since the tragic death of his wife two years earlier, Ely has withdrawn from his neighbors, while local teens spread stories of supernatural goings on at Elys mansion – which is also the funeral home.
When high school friends Travis (Oller), Abby (Teegarden), Brian (Lunsford) and Danny (Werkheiser) decide to check out the rumors, they are shocked to see the supposedly grieving widower dancing with a mysterious woman behind the curtains of his bedroom window. Their curiosity aroused, the four teens wait for Ely to leave the house before breaking in to investigate. But instead of finding clues to the womans identity, they stumble on a grotesque, long-hidden secret. The sadistic mortician next door will now stop at nothing to literally bury his past.
