Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie, Mike Epps and Sanaa Lathan have all boarded director Philippe Caland’s Vipaka, a psychological voodoo horror movie, according to THR. Whether the world needs a voodoo horror movie is another matter, but then we don’t need 10,000 zombie flicks a year, so why not a voodoo one?
Written by Shintaro Shimosawa (who I think we can assume does not have Haitian voodoo heritage), the story follows a severely disturbed contractor ?(Forest Whitaker) who seeks help from a life coach (Anthony Mackie). What begins as an honest? therapy session becomes a twisted and dangerous psychological game, when the contractor? abducts the life coach and uses his spiritual messages to terrorize him and? his family.?? Sanaa Lathan will play Mackie’s wife while Mike Epps is his brother.??
Production starts next week.