‘My Wife and I Bought a Ranch’ – ‘Companion’ Director Sets Up Next Horror Movie

While we wait for his debut feature Companion next year, The Hollywood Reporter lets us know that director Drew Hancock has already set up a new movie with Amazon MGM Studios.

Hancock will write and direct supernatural horror movie My Wife and I Bought a Ranch.

THR reports, “The project unites some heavy hitters, and some big horror names, on the producing side. Producers include 21 Laps, the banner run by Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine, as well as James Wan and Michael Clear’s Atomic Monster. Also producing is Scott Glassgold of Ground Control, which counts this year’s surprise hit Tarot amongst its credits.”

The upcoming horror movie “follows a couple who move into their dream home in Idaho only to discover that a malevolent spirit inhabits their valley.”

My Wife and I Bought a Ranch is based on a short story written by Matt Query, which was subsequently turned into a novel titled Old Country, penned by Matt and his brother Harrison.

Here’s the full official synopsis for the 2022 novel: “In this terrifyingly twisted thriller, a young couple discovers the horror held within their newly purchased dream house.

“It’s the house of their dreams. Former marine Harry and his wife, Sasha, have packed up their life and their golden retriever, Dash, and fled the corporate rat race to live off the land in rural Idaho. Their breathtaking new home sits on more than forty acres of meadow, aspen trees, and pine forest in the Teton Valley. Even if their friends and family think it’s a strange choice for an up-and-coming pair of urban professionals, Harry and Sasha couldn’t be happier about the future they’re building, all by their lonesome.

“That is, until their nearest neighbors, Dan and Lucy Steiner, come bearing more than housewarming gifts. Dan and Lucy warn Harry and Sasha of a malevolent spirit that lives in the valley, one that with every season will haunt them in fresh, ever-more-diabolical ways. At first, it seems like an old wives’ tale. But when spring arrives, so does the first evil manifestation, challenging everything Harry and Sasha thought they knew about the world.

“As each season passes, the spirit grows stronger, the land more sinister, and each encounter more dangerous. Will Harry and Sasha learn the true meaning of a forever home before it’s too late? Haunting and bone-chilling, Old Country is a spellbinding debut in the horror genre.”