Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie Starring in Voodoo Horror Film

Getty ImagesForrest Witaker, left, and Anthony Mackie Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie, Mike Epps and Sanaa Lathan are starring in Vipaka, a psychological voodoo horror movie that Philippe Caland isdirecting. Written by Shin Shimosawa, the story follows a severely disturbed contractor(Whitaker) seeks help from a life coach (Mackie). What begins as an honesttherapy session becomes a twisted and dangerous psychological game, when heabducts the life coach and uses his spiritual messages to terrorize him andhis family. Lathan is Mackie's wife while Epps is his brother. Production begins this week in New Orleans. Whittaker and Nina Yang are producing through the duo's Significant PicturesCaland wrote and directed Whitaker's 2007 thriller Ripple Effect andco-wrote Boxing Helena. Shimosawa, a co-producer on The Grudge movies, co-wrote the 2008 horrormovie The Echo and is a staff writer on the Sarah Michelle Gellar show TheRinger. WME-repped Whitaker, who won an Oscar for his performance in 2007's LastKing of Scotland, last starred in TV's Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,where he worked with Shimosawa. Anthony Mackie Forest Whitaker Sanaa Lathan