THE CASKET GIRLS Filmed In Victoria Announces Cast

QC Entertainment has revealed more cast for horror The Casket Girls.

Gabrielle Union stars alongside Mike Colter (Evil) in this modern horror from the creators of Get Out. The Casket Girls takes place in present day New Orleans. Detective Shay Williams (Union) and her partner Galpin (Colter) become trapped inside the Ursuline Convent with a motley when the Casket Girls escape from their attic prison for the first time in over 300 years.

The Casket Girls is inspired by true events involving a group of young women sent from France to New Orleans to become brides to French colonists in the early 1700s. They arrived with small chests, or “caskets” of their belongings, hence the name given by locals.

According to legend, upon the girls’ arrival, the homicide rate in New Orleans rose dramatically, with stories of men drained of their blood. The girls received the blame for the murders, with the population believing them to be demons or vampires.

For the city’s protection, the girls were imprisoned in the attic of the Vatican controlled Ursuline Convent, which still stands today in the heart of the French Quarter, locked away behind an impenetrable door and windows bolted shut by nails blessed by the Pope himself.

Casting News

New cast announcements include Raúl Castillo (Smile 2), Matt Frewer (Perry Mason), and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!).

They join Hazel Bartlett-Sais (Longlegs), Lucia Morris (Nobody Dumps My Daughter), Ana Pacheco (Seed), Talisa Mae Stewart (Are You There?), Haylie Hansen (The Chicken Sisters) and Charlotte Kavanagh (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies), with Jake Manley (The Order), Carolina Rolo (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies), and Yari Pernia (Christmas on 5th Avenue).

Justin Dyck directs the project. Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant (Night at the Museum) wrote the script. Keith Cooper (Anything for Jackson) & Dyck contributed revisions to the script.

The film shot in Victoria, Capital of British Columbia between 15 October 2024 and 22 November 2024. The location playing New Orleans where the legend of The Casket Girls comes from.

SOURCE: hollywoodnorthbuzz.com