Anchor Bay has released a trailer for the long gestating movie adaptation of of author Micheal Hornberg’s 2001 novel Downers Grove. Directed by Derick Martini (Hick) and written for the screen by novelist Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), the slasher was first announced in 2010 with Hayden Panettiere attached.

Bella Heathcote now toplines the film as Chrissie Swanson, an angst-filled high school student convinced she’ll be one of the victims of a curse that makes schoolmates die bizarre deaths every year before graduation.

Heathcote’s creds include Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, Andrew Niccol’s In Time, and serial killer drama Acolytes. She’ll soon be seen in the big screen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an outrageous re-imagining of the Jane Austin novel Pride and Prejudice.

In limited theaters Aug. 21 and on home video Sept. 1.

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