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Searchlight Pictures Adapts Grady Hendrix's Horrorstör for Film

2/25/2026

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Searchlight Pictures has acquired film rights to Grady Hendrix, author of Horrorstör, for a feature adaptation set at a Cleveland Orsk store.
Jonathan Levine will direct and write the screenplay.
Production is led by Brian Oliver, Gillian Bohrer, Adam Goldworm, and Brad Fischer, with Grady Hendrix as executive producer alongside Quirk Books.
The novel has been in development since its 2014 release and was once considered for a television adaptation.

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Story summary

Searchlight Pictures has acquired film rights to Grady Hendrix, author of Horrorstör, for a feature adaptation set at a Cleveland Orsk store.
Jonathan Levine will direct and write the screenplay.
Production is led by Brian Oliver, Gillian Bohrer, Adam Goldworm, and Brad Fischer, with Grady Hendrix as executive producer alongside Quirk Books.
The novel has been in development since its 2014 release and was once considered for a television adaptation.