Things are about to get itchy with news that Emile Hirsch, Justin Long, and Kevin Connolly are set to star in an upcoming creeping, crawling horror movie called Lice. Directed by cinematographer Jonathan Bensimon in his directorial debut, the film is reported by Variety to be scuttling into the territory of The Breakfast Club and Lord of the Flies, only coming with a lot more bugs.
The story comes from an original concept by Connolly, who also backs the project through his company, ActionPark Productions, with a script penned by Anthony Musella and Shaun Harris. Set in the 1980s, the film follows an outbreak of lice in a Long Island high school that is forced under lockdown by the military, trapping the students inside. Pretty soon, there's more getting under the occupants' skin as they begin to turn on one another, with the school principal (Long) struggling to keep things under control and going a little crazy in the process.
