Bryce Dallas Howard joins Aaron Paul in Curry Barker’s Anything But Ghosts

Bryce Dallas Howard has joined the cast of Anything But Ghosts, a mysterious new horror film from Obsession‘s Curry Barker that recently wrapped production. Howard stars alongside Aaron Paul, with Barker also acting in the movie in addition to directing and co-writing the script with frequent collaborator Cooper Tomlinson. Unfortunately, plot details are being kept under wraps, but I have a feeling folks will be looking out for this one now that Barker is taking the helm of the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie for A24.

Curry Barker on Texas Chainsaw Massacre

It was announced last week that Barker would be writing and directing the new reimagining of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the works at A24. He recently commented on his new take, saying, “I’m really excited to do a Texas Chainsaw Massacre that’s not just about a guy chasing some people around with a chainsaw. [One] that has some heart to it, you know? Where you care about these characters, and you want to see them survive, but you know… it is still brutal.“

He added that, with the exception of the “quite good” 2003 remake, he’s had reservations about most of the sequels, remakes, and prequels which followed the original. “I really think that the potential for that series has not been fully realized,” he said. “I actually feel like a lot of the remakes went the complete opposite direction than they should have gone.” My opinion is much the same, so I’m curious to see what Barker has in store for this new film.

Obsession

Barker’s Obsession follows a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy and wishes for his childhood friend Nikki to fall in love with him. As you might imagine, things don’t go quite as planned.

Our own Chris Bumbray caught the film at SXSW last month and loved it. “Barker guides the film with a sure hand and doesn’t shy away from hammering home his message about the difference between real love and obsession,” Bumbray wrote. “Many will note the movie’s gallows humor, with gore-heavy moments happening so randomly and brutally that you can’t help but laugh at how demented they are—only to realize moments later that what you’re watching is, in many ways, a classic horror tragedy.” You can check out the rest of his review right here. Obsession will hit theaters on May 15.