The movie is an adaptation of the 1962 novel by Shirley Jackson, said The Hollywood Reporter.
Michael Douglas is producing the thriller with Jared Goldman, Robert Mitas and Robert Halmi, Jr.
Stacie Passon is directing the project from a script she wrote with Mark Kroger.
The story revolves around an isolated family which has lost four members to poisoning and uses rituals and talismans to keep itself away from hostile townspeople.
Stan will play a distant cousin, intent on maliciously securing the family's fortune whose arrival sets in motion the uncovering of family secrets.