Siren Head Internet Horror Adaptation In The Works
A film adaptation of the internet horror craze Siren Head is now in the works from Warner Bros.
Weapons director Zach Cregger and Whalefall filmmaker Brian Duffield will pen the film. The plan is that Duffield will also direct the film. He is also known for 2023’s No One Will Save You. Cregger will additionally produce the film, alongside Roy Lee and Andrew Childs from Vertigo Entertainment. The film does not have an estimated release date.
It is said that Warner Bros. Pictures won the five-studio bidding war with a multimillion-dollar deal to secure the rights to the weird sensation. The big streamers were said to be excluded from the equation after a theatrical release was a key part of the deal. With the recent success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, it’s clear other studios want to piggyback off of this internet horror success in their own manner, but does this have the same pull?
The creature was created by designer Trevor Henderson back in 2018 and focuses on a tall, decaying skeleton figure, with two sirens as its head. Similar to the Backrooms craze, Henderson posted a picture on the meme online, which then turned into a wave of unexpected popularity, with fan theories, YouTube animations, short films, and video games all spawning. It became an obsession for young Gen Z-ers.
With Backrooms having made $330 million worldwide at the box office, and Obsession having made $374 million, it appears the big Hollywood studios are going to be taking every opportunity to capitalise on this spike in horror success this year, despite the fact that it is about the only genre where indie filmmaking seems to do well in terms of profitable return.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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