WHNT teases Dark Entities sequel, encore premiere set for August 15

WHNT’s quick June 10 tease did more than flag another horror screening. It put a hard date on the calendar for Dark Entities: The Reawakening, with an encore premiere set for August 15 at Cineplanet 15 in Madison, and it signaled that this sequel has enough local pull to merit another public push in the Tennessee Valley.

The station’s Day to Day recap said the minds behind Dark Entities: The Reawakening stopped by to share news about the sequel film, shot in the Tennessee Valley, and folded the segment into a broader community-interest lineup. That matters because this is no longer just a one-off indie showing. It is becoming a repeat-stop hometown genre event, the kind that gives North Alabama viewers a reason to circle a venue, track a title, and show up again for the next chapter.

Brandon McLemore of Priceville is the writer-director at the center of it, and the project grew out of the questions he kept hearing after the first Dark Entities screened. The sequel was developed over several years, with local cast members helping anchor the production and Decatur musician David Vest contributing to the soundtrack. The film also kept its feet planted in recognizable local spaces, with scenes tied to the Decatur Public Library, Bank Street, and Hospice of the Valley.

The story itself stays locked in the same haunted-family universe that gave the original its momentum. IMDb describes the sequel as set in 1979, following up on the Winters siblings’ paranormal ordeal from 1977, while public film listings identify Mirror Image Productions as the production company. The cast listed for the project includes Jackson Lee Turner, Angela Russell Moore, Heather Anderson, and Krishna Sistla Ward, names that deepen the film’s North Alabama footprint and give the sequel the feel of a regional production instead of a generic horror package.

That local identity is what gives the August 15 encore premiere real weight. Cineplanet 15 in Madison is now the public touchpoint for a sequel that started as audience curiosity, was built over years, and has grown into a Tennessee Valley story with its own return date. If the first film asked viewers to discover the world, this next screening is asking them to come back and claim it.