EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media has acquired North American rights to Warren Skeels‘ thriller The Man in the White Van from Garrison Film and Legion M, slating the film for a wide theatrical release on October 11.

Starring Sean Astin (Stranger Things), Ali Larter (The Rookie), Madison Wolfe (The Conjuring 2) and more, the film is inspired by a series of true crimes that shook the nation in the 1970s and delves into the harrowing experiences of Annie Williams (Wolfe), a spirited family girl, whose carefree existence is turned upside down as she finds herself stalked by an ominous man in a white van. Prone to exaggeration, her parents’ disbelief in her tales of being followed leads to a terrifying Halloween nightmare.

Skeels directed from his and Sharon Y. Cobb’s script, in his narrative feature debut. Terri Lubaroff, Anne Marie Gillen, Skeels, Michael Nole, and Paul Scanlan produced alongside EPs Gary Kompothecras, Lawrence Najem, Jeff Annison, David Baxter, Astin, Larter, Michael Arrieta, Marc Danon, Lex Miron, and David Robbins. Brec Bassinger (Stargirl), Gavin Warren (Night Swim), Skai Jackson (Jessie) and Julianne Arrieta (Freelance) round out the cast.