Action Thriller ‘Vanished’ Leads Glass House Distribution’s Cannes Slate Following Three-Pic Deal With Charach Productions

EXCLUSIVE: Vanished, the indie action thriller from Randy Charach, is leading Glass House Distribution‘s Cannes Film Festival slate.

The pic comprises one of three Glasshouse has acquired in a worldwide rights deal with Charach Productions – the other two being David Lynch-inspired horror Texas Nightmare and action drama Clutch. Charach produces all three, with Michael Merino or Jared Cohn attached as directors.

Vanished, which we told you about in February, stars Charach (Hunting Games), Rampage Jackson (The A-Team), Richard Grieco (21 Jump Street), David Chokachi (Baywatch), Natalie Burn (Black Adam), Al Sapienza (The Sopranos), Laurie Fortier (The Walking Dead), Robert LaSardo (Nip/Tuck), Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2), and James Pratt (Malibu Crush), with Cohn the director. Charach Productions is the producer in partnership with Traplight Pictures.

The film follows Jack (Charach), a high-level defense contractor whose life is thrown into chaos when his daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom.

First look at Felissa Rose in ‘Texas Nightmare’

Texas Nightmare, directed by Merino, is billed as psychological horror film and stars Starring Sadie Katz (Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), James Pratt, Lew Temple (The Walking Dead) and Eva Hamilton (The Black Mass).

Produced by Merino and Charach and co-exec produced by Katz and Rose, the film follows a writer retreating to a remote Texas home to finish their novel, only to be drawn into a terrifying encounter with a deadly cult.

First look at Sadie Katz in ‘Clutch’

Clutch, meanwhile, is an action flick based on real-life events, with Merino the writer and director. It also stars Katz, who plays a ride-hailing driver who becomes the target of a desperate criminal on the run, setting off a high-stakes struggle for survival.

Cast includes Kaiwi Lyman (American Horror Story), Vernon Wells (Weird Science), Michael Pare (Streets of Fire), Mike Ferguson (V/H/S Beyond), Augie Duke (Moon Garden), and David W. Bailey (Clown Motel 2).

Glasshouse will be shopping all three in Cannes, in a slate that also includes recent acquisitions such as The Plastic Men, which it bagged in the run up to AFM, and Night of the Missing.