{"id":390429,"date":"2026-04-09T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390429\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:10:08","slug":"the-pitt-star-fiona-dourif-joins-horror-film-a-head-full-of-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390429\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Pitt&#8217; Star Fiona Dourif Joins Horror Film &#8216;A Head Full of Ghosts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/fiona-dourif\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fiona-dourif\" data-tag=\"fiona-dourif\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiona Dourif<\/a>, best known to \u201cThe Pitt\u201d fans as Dr. McKay, has joined the cast of the horror film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/a-head-full-of-ghosts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a-head-full-of-ghosts\" data-tag=\"a-head-full-of-ghosts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Head Full of Ghosts<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShe\u2019ll star alongside the previously announced ensemble of David Harbour, Rebecca Hall, and Esm\u00e9 Creed-Miles (\u201cHanna\u201d), as well as Bodhi Rae Breathnach (\u201cHamnet\u201d) and newcomer Hollie Hill-Pearson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cA Head Full of Ghosts\u201d follows a suburban family whose life is torn apart when their teenage daughter\u2019s decent into madness becomes the subject of a reality show. Fifteen years later, her sister Merry faces her family\u2019s dark past with a journalist uncovering the nature of the evil force that undid them. Hill-Pearson will play young Merry, while Creed-Miles will portray the character as an adult. Breathnach will be her older teenage sister Marjorie; and Dourif and Harbour are playing the parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tVeronika Franz and Severin Fiala, whose credits include \u201cGoodnight Mommy\u201d and \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Bath,\u201d will write and direct. The story is based on Paul Tremblay\u2019s play of the same name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLionsgate recently acquired \u201c\u201dA Head Full of Ghosts\u201d from Fifth Season. Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan will produce for Team Downey, alongside David Gambino, and Fifth Season. Additional producers include Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine of The Allegiance Theater. Scott O\u2019Brien and Brandon Hill will oversee the project for Lionsgate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBefore Dourif broke out in \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d which was renewed for Season 3, she appeared in films such as Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s\u00a0\u201cThe Master,\u201d Gus Van Sant\u2019s\u00a0\u201cWhen We Rise\u201d and Christopher Nolan\u2019s\u00a0 \u201cTenet.\u201d She is represented by Stephen La Manna at Innovative Artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBreathnach\u2019s upcoming projects include \u201cSense and Sensibility\u201d and the Robert Eggers horror thriller\u00a0\u201cWerwulf.\u201d She is represented by The Artists Partnership in the UK and by Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample &amp; Klein. Hill-Pearson is represented by Articulate Agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiona Dourif, best known to \u201cThe Pitt\u201d fans as Dr. McKay, has joined the cast of the horror&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[173182,321,93,104255,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-390429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-a-head-full-of-ghosts","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fiona-dourif","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}