{"id":263446,"date":"2025-11-15T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263446\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:21:09","slug":"black-phone-filmmakers-to-produce-bitter-bitter-based-on-award-winning-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263446\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Black Phone&#8217; Filmmakers to Produce &#8216;Bitter Bitter&#8217; Based on Award-Winning Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Phone and Sinister duo\u00a0Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill will produce the horror film Bitter Bitter via their Crooked Highway, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/wme-charlie-schwan-bitter-bitter-scott-derrickson-1236617903\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is based on writer-director Charlie Schwan\u2018s short Harvester, which premiered at this year\u2019s SXSW and took home the Jury Award for Best Texas Short.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-minute short follows a desperate woman and her companion as they bring a bound man to an abandoned house, where they summon a mythical creature. Their dark bargain promises a chance to revisit the past, but the price may be higher than they imagined.<\/p>\n<p>The blurb for Bitter Bitter reads, \u201cOn the fringe of an isolated logging town, a grieving teen is drawn to an ancient creature that opens a window to the lost \u2014 but with each vision, a hunger grows, gnawing from within, and risks opening the door to something darker\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crooked Highway\u2019s latest film, Black Phone 2, grossed over $71 million stateside and $123 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3915058\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3915052\/black-phone-filmmakers-to-produce-bitter-bitter-based-on-award-winning-short\/attachment\/harvester-poster\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Harvester-poster.jpg?fit=1280%2C1707&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Harvester-poster\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Harvester-poster.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Harvester-poster.jpg?fit=740%2C987&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3915058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Harvester-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"987\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Black Phone and Sinister duo\u00a0Scott Derrickson and C. 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