Production has started on the film adaptation of horror work sim The Mortuary Assistant, with Willa Holland in the lead role.
Holland – who has previously starred in Arrow and Gossip Girl, although I knew her first as Marissa Cooper’s little sister Kaitlin in The OC – will play Rebecca, a young woman who works as, you guessed it, a mortuary assistant.
Holland is joined by House of Cards and Boardwalk Empire actor Paul Sparks, who plays Rebecca’s boss Raymond Delver in the upcoming film. As reported by Deadline, Rebecca’s boss “appears to be a mentor, but also a potential threat”.
Indie horror The Mortuary Assistant initially released on PC in 2022, before becoming available on consoles. As you may have surmised, it casts players as a newly hired assistant at a mortuary who embalms corpses. However, there is a catch – the mortuary is haunted.