Rachel Shenton, an Oscar winner, has joined the cast of Lionsgate’s recently finished The Strangers adaptation.
Shenton portrays Debbie, the character’s sister played by Madelaine Petsch. As the first of a trilogy, Lionsgate is remaking the original 2008 cult horror movie of the same name.
In the remake of the triology, Petsch travels cross-country with her longtime partner, Froy Gutierrez, in order to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest. They are forced to spend the night in a remote Airbnb after their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, where they are terrified by three masked intruders from twilight till daylight.
Shenton created and starred in The Silent Child, which won the Academy Award for best live action short film. The British actress appeared in the drama All Creatures Great and Small, the BBC/Netflix series White Gold, and the serial opera Hollyoaks on Channel Four. Shenton made her American television debut in the final three seasons of the ABC Family programme Switched at Birth as Lily Summers.
Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler, and Bryan Bertino appeared in the original 2008 The Strangers home invasion horror film. The three-part Lionsgate movie series, which features Petsch, Gabriel Basso, and Gutierrez, has finished filming in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The Strangers remake was directed by Renny Harlin from a screenplay by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland. Global distribution is handled by Lionsgate. While Andrei Boncea, Dorothy Canton, and Roy Lee serve as executive producers, Courtney Solomon, Mark Canton, Christopher Milburn, Gary Raskin, Charlie Dombeck, and Alastair Birlingham are credited as producers.
