When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n Credit: Kaleidoscope Entertainment<\/p>\n Alice Lowe, the director of cult horror hit Prevenge, is turning her sights to an Elizabethan classic for her next project: she’s adapting William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream into a horror movie.<\/p>\n “I wanted to make a classic and it struck me that Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, which I know so well, is always made in the same way over and over,” Lowe told Deadline<\/a>. “It\u2019s so genuinely funny. But also fey and fairies and blah blah blah. But I don\u2019t see why it couldn\u2019t be revisited with how terrifying and odd everything happens in it, and how the undercurrents are actually so dark and strange.”<\/p>\n Per Deadline, Lowe will write, direct, and have a key (but not lead) role in the film. She also starred in her previous two outings as writer-director: the 2016 slasher comedy Prevenge, about a pregnant widow who’s convinced her fetus wants her to go on vengeful killing spree, and the 2024 time-travelling rom-com Timestalker.<\/p>\n Shakespeare’s original play follows several interlinking plots, including the marriage of the Duke of Athens to the Queen of the Amazons, a complicated love quadrangle between four lovers, and a group of actors rehearsing for a play. These three groups all end up in a forest inhabited by fairies, who wish to manipulate the humans for their own amusement.<\/p>\n The play has been adapted for the big screen many times, most famously in 1999. This version starred Christian Bale, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Stanley Tucci.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n