In recent years, many beloved children’s storybook characters have been converted into horror retelling. Although Robert Browning’s“The Pied Piper of Hamelin” centuries ago has always been a cautionary tale, it continues that story in a horror-fantasy setting with Piper starring Elizabeth Hurley.

The film also stars Mia Jenkins (Hanna), Jack Stewart (Outlander, Float), Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed Off), Ryan Webber (The Funhouse Massacre), and Robert Daws (The Man Who Fell to Earth). Anthony Waller (Mute Witness) wrote and directed the movie based on Duncan Kennedy’s story.

Here is the official description of the film:

A children’s legend turns into a horrifying nightmare in Piper, a wickedly creepy horror-fantasy that tells a terrifying tale of children paying for the sins of their parents. Émigré Liz (Hurley) moves to a quaint German town with her daughter Amy but ends up in the Piper’s crosshairs when it is revealed she’s hiding a dark secret from her past that puts Amy’s life in jeopardy. Liz and Amy individually learn the truth behind the legend of the Piper who is a cruel and vengeful minister of harsh justice, punishing adults who get away with crimes by taking away their children. No longer a legend of yesteryear, the Piper is real with his judging eyes set on Liz and her dark secret. The girl’s only hope for salvation comes when she falls for a young and mysterious street magician, Luca. Can he save her from the Piper’s clutches?

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“The idea of transforming a children’s fairy tale into a dark and multi-layered contemporary story has always fascinated me,” filmmaker Anthony Waller stated. “It allowed me to create a hybrid world out of a past and present Hamelin where restless medieval spirits play upon the consciences of our modern-day characters, drawing them into a tug of war between love and vengeance, guilt and denial, penance and retribution that spans centuries. While doing so, I wanted to maintain an ambiguity in the storytelling as to how various events can be interpreted, both as a deliberate manipulation by the locals to perpetuate a Piper myth that maintains strict law and order in Hamelin, or as a vengeful supernatural spirit from the past who sniffs out the guilt of those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children.”

Freestyle Digital Media, a distribution división of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, acquired the North American VOD and DVD rights to set for release on November 12.

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Source: Freestyle Digital Media