LOS ANGELES:

“Schitt’s Creek” star Emily Hampshire has signed on for the lead role of independent psychological horror movie “Home”.

Hampshire is also executive producing for the first time on “Home”. Production begins on Aug 13 in Montreal.

Hampshire just wrapped the sixth and final season of CBC Television “Schitt’s Creek”, playing motel clerk and owner Stevie Budd, and also recently starred as Jennifer Goines in Syfy’s series “12 Monkeys”.

Adam O’Brien of Delirium Pictures is directing “Home” from a script by Philip Kalin-Hajdu, who is also producing with Benoit Beaulieu. The story is set after the death of a couple’s newborn son, which leads to the couple separating. Alone in her house, she is convinced that her son is still alive, unaware that the death of her baby has caused the birth of something terribly sinister.

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