{"id":94964,"date":"2025-10-22T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/94964\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:12:11","slug":"viral-horror-short-the-bells-to-receive-feature-adaptation-from-the-ring-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/94964\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Horror Short &#8216;The Bells&#8217; to Receive Feature Adaptation from &#8216;The Ring&#8217; Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ring franchise executive producer Mike Macari is set to produce a feature adaptation of the viral horror short The Bells, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/the-bells-virat-pal-mike-macari-team-horror-film-1236594267\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Virat Pal, who helmed the original short, will make his feature directorial on the film from a script he co-wrote with Danny Barclay, who starred in the short.<\/p>\n<p>A supernatural horror film in the vein of The Ring and Smile, The Bells centers on a cursed phenomenon where victims hear mysterious bells tolling before meeting a deadly fate.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-minute short has amassed over nine million views since hitting YouTube in 2018. Watch it below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a huge fan of Virat\u2019s work since I first saw his V\/H\/S segment,\u201d said Macari. \u201cSo when I read his feature script for The Bells, I was immediately hooked. The concept of the bells tolling is deeply unnerving and eerie in a way that stays with you long after the credits roll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continues, \u201cWhat Virat and Danny have crafted is something truly special. It has that rare quality of being both terrifying and emotionally resonant. I\u2019m thrilled to be working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pal most recently directed the V\/H\/S\/Beyond segment \u201cDream Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ring franchise executive producer Mike Macari is set to produce a feature adaptation of the viral horror&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69,70385,70386,70387],"class_list":["post-94964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-bells","tag-the-ring","tag-virat-pal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}