Justin Long & Kate Bosworth Tag In for Grave Encounters Reboot

If you love horror movies that toy with your perception of reality this one might get under your skin. Grave Encounters is rising from its cult film graveyard and climbing into a new reboot. Justin Long is front and center and will also help produce while Kate Bosworth joins him behind the scenes to bring fresh terror to the fore. Original creators Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz return to develop and produce, alongside Shawn Angelski from the first film. The plan is to honor what made the first film creep up in your nightmares while also pushing the design of dread higher.

For those who have not watched Grave Encounters, the original set up is simple but deeply effective. A ghost hunting reality show crew locks themselves inside an abandoned mental hospital hoping for scares. What they find is far worse. The found footage style made every creak, every flicker and every shadow feel immediate. Fans loved the sense of isolation, the distortion of what is real, and the slow burn of fear. Now this reboot aims to sharpen all of that. The team wants more psychological terror, more claustrophobia, and more dread that lingers after you flick the lights back on.

Justin Long is not usually the first name people associate with raw horror but he has been quietly building cred in genre circles. With roles in Barbarian and other unsettling pictures his scream timing is strong. Bosworth has also shown range and willingness to get into projects that stretch mood and character. Their collaboration with Minihan on Coyotes proved a working chemistry exists. It makes sense that they want to ride that vibe again.

Original writers-directors Minihan and Ortiz have talked about how they made the first Grave Encounters in their twenties on a shoestring budget. They built tension using atmosphere, light and sound rather than grand set pieces. Now with more resources and audience sophistication they seem ready to expand what fear can do. They want to modernize found footage horror while still preserving that weird rawness that made people stay up late thinking about shadows in corners.

Production is not underway yet but the aim is to start next year. No release date has been locked in. That gives the team room to get the design right. Imagine dark hallways that seem to breathe, abandoned wards that echo histories, and paranormal phenomena that feel both horrific and unjust. The reboot seems positioned to deliver both old school chills and fresh horror energy.