Paranormal Crime Thriller ‘Stakeout’ to Launch Serial Killer Vampire Franchise

Stakeout, a short film starring Seth Gilliam (“The Walking Dead” and Sonja O’Hara (“Doomsday”), follows detectives tracking a serial killer in a world secretly overrun by vampires. Deadline reports today that a feature adaptation is on the way.

The short film’s stars, Gilliam and O’Hara, are both returning for the feature film. 

Stakeout follows “a pair of detectives tracking a brutal serial killer.” The horror thriller is planned as the first of multiple features set in a crime-ridden world suffering from a hidden vampire epidemic.

The crime thriller with a supernatural twist is directed and written by Micah Khan (The Zombie Wedding) and written by Khan, Victoria Diana, and David Wappel. 

“Everything under the sun has already been told before,” Khan stated. “So I want to go into the shadows to unfold new tales. It’s the perfect place to vent my fears about the future, each time told through the myopic eyes of a mortal battling immortals in the night fog. And although we’re playing with monsters in a familiar genre, under the hood we’re dealing with the quiet secrets that ail us in the real world.”

Gilliam is likely best known to horror fans as Father Gabriel Stokes in AMC’s popular series “The Walking Dead.” The character was initially introduced in season five and most recently appeared in spinoff series “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.” O’Hara earned an Emmy nomination for her work as star and creator of millennial cult miniseries “Doomsday.“

Stay tuned for more one Stakeout and its planned sequels as details arrive. Production is expected to begin this year.

Sonja O’Hara in “Doomsday”

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