Williams will play the slightly sociopathic employee of a one-hour photo shop, who turns his obsessive eye towards Nielsen’s suburban family and soon becomes dangerously fixated with the young mother and her brood.

With Keanu Reeves having only recently cast off the leather gloves and black balaclava from his stint as a serial killer in The Watcher, Williams has become the latest Hollywood ‘good-guy’ to be tempted by the dark side. But with family-friendly fare like Flubber and Patch Adams forming the bulk of Williams’ CV, Hollywood’s favourite laughter-gnome may have a hard time convincing audiences of his evil intentions. But then again, its always the ones you least expect.