Emma Roberts and Kiernan Shipka sign up for roles in horror flick 'February'

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Television actresses Emma Roberts and Kiernan Shipka have signed on for roles in February, a big-screen horror thriller written and directed by Osgood Perkins, the son of the late Psycho star Anthony Perkins, Highland Film Group announced Thursday.

Roberts is best known for her work on American Horror Story and Shipka is a longtime cast member of Mad Men. The younger Perkins has acted in the films Six Degrees of Separation and Legally Blonde.

"We look forward to bringing Osgood's tantalizing story to life while keeping audiences riveted with suspense," producers Bryan Bertino, Adrienne Biddle and Rob Paris said in a joint statement.

"Beautiful and haunted Joan makes a bloody and determined pilgrimage across a frozen landscape toward a prestigious all-girls prep school where Rose and Kat find themselves stranded after their parents mysteriously fail to retrieve them for winter break. As Joan gets closer, terrifying visions begin plaguing Kat while Rose watches in horror as she becomes possessed by an unseen evil force," a synopsis said.