With his True Blood fame under his belt, Stephen Moyer is not making an assault on the movie world – although whether going up against the Jersey Devil is the best way to do it is another question. However Variety reports that he’s signed on to star in the horror Movie The Barrens, from Saw II-IV and Mother’s Day helmer Darren Lynn Bousman.
We don’t know much about the Jersey Devil in the UK. And while it sounds like a nickname for Snooki from Jersey Shore, it’s actually a bizarre creature from the annals of cryptozoology, which is said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey. It apparently flies, walks on two legs and has hooves.
Moyer will play a man who takes his family of a camping trip to the Pine Barrens, but soon becomes concerned they’re being stalked by the legendary freakish creature. According to Variety, it’s sold as being in the same vein as Stephen King tales like The Shining, but rather than classic King, it sounds more like his modern drech such as Dreamcatcher.
Shooting on the movie starts later this month.