Jessica Biel Joins 'Martyrs' Director Pascal Laugier's 'The Tall Man'

While celebrated in some quarters as some kind of cerebral horror achievement, this writer thinks Pascal Laugier's "Martyrs" was torture porn dressed up in some intellectual mumbo jumbo. Regardless, the film has its fans, and they might be pleased to know Laugier has another film on the horizon.

"The Tall Man" sounds a bit less extreme than "Martyrs" and the story will center on a town where a number of children have gone missing over the years without a trace. Local legend tells the tale of the titular Tall Man who takes them away never to be seen again. One woman takes action when her child is taken and tries to discover who the Tall Man is and what happens to the children.

With that in mind, Jessica Biel has joined the film which is now filming in Canada, in what we guess in the main role. She joins a cast that includes Stephen McHattie ("Watchmen," "Pontypool"), William B. Davis ("X-Files" as the Cigarette Smoking Man), Samantha Ferris ("Supernatural") and Jodelle Ferland ("Tideland," "Case 39"). The project is described confusingly as "an outdoor 'Panic Room'" and a "suspenseful thriller in the vein of M. Night Shyamalan’s earlier films." So take that for whatever its worth. [JoBlo]