
EXCLUSIVE: Bryan Bertino, who wrote and directed the Rogue Pictures sleeper hit The Strangers, has found a new haunt. He has made a deal with Ghost House Pictures to write and direct This Man, a thriller that has a clever fact-based hook. The protagonist is an ordinary man who discovers that people he has never met have somehow seen him in their nightmares. Ghost House has acquired rights to a website that was created by Italian sociologist Andrea Natella to connect those who saw the actual man in their dreams.
Bertino’s The Strangers grossed $82 million worldwide and he wrote a sequel that Lauren Briet will direct. Bertino and his Unbroken Pictures partner Adrienne Biddle will produce This Man with Ghost House principals Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. Ghost House’s Nathan Kahane will be executive producer.
Ghost House confirmed the deal with Raimi calling the film “a hair raising story that will be sure to delight horror fans.” The genre shingle last released the Raimi-directed thriller Drag Me to Hell.


Good to see an inventive thriller/horror project find some life out there.
cool…is this about Dick Cheney?
I can tell this guy does thrillers because of his awesome photo
The Strangers was an awful, awful film. But in the horror genre, home to true hacks, anything can make a profit. We’ll see what Raimi can bring to this.
It was not an “awful, awful” film. You are likely reacting to the content not the tight, suspenseful direction. You can always tell someone who doesn’t know about movies when they react entirely to a film’s content, not to the way it was crafted.
I agree. Kind of a crapfest.
If by tight and suspenseful you meant cliche and repetitive. It was one of the most predictable horror movies to come out in the past few years, which is a shame given how interesting the trailer and concept made it look.
The content itself is only intriguing to someone who hasn’t seen the far more intelligent and suspenseful ‘Funny Games.’
It’s a shame that another interesting concept will be screwed up by Bertino.
A very talented director.
He really knows how to draw a performance out of Scott Speedman.
I loved THE STRANGERS & I can’t wait to see this film. Good luck, Bryan!
The Strangers had story holes big enough to drive a truck through!!!!
Awesome news – The Strangers was a great horror film and Bertino is a fantastic director. And NO, I’ve never met the guy – but I look forward to whatever he makes.
Feels like Ghost House is the right fit!
This isn’t fact based. It’s a hoax, a guerrilla marketing ploy. the domain is registered to guerrillamarketing.it , which Andrea Natella founded.