EXCLUSIVE: Taissa Farmiga is getting Violent with The Sacrament director Ti West. She’s joined the cast of the filmmaker’s 1890′s-set Western In A Valley Of Violence, led by Ethan Hawke and John Travolta. Story follows Paul (Hawke), a drifter with nothing to lose who seeks revenge on the thugs who killed his best friend. Farmiga will play a young woman who runs the town’s hotel with her older sister and helps Paul in his quest for vengeance. Blumhouse’s Jason Blum is producing alongside West’s longtime producer Peter Phok and Sacrament producer Jacob Jaffke.

West (House of the Devil, The Innkeepers) world-premiered his latest film The Sacrament in Venice and opens the Jonestown-esque cult thriller on June 6 via Magnolia Pictures. He’s moving fast on Valley, which he wrote and is directing with filming set to begin late next month in New Mexico. Nineteen-year-old Farmiga has had a solid run since making her screen debut in sister Vera’s 2011 directorial debut Higher Ground, followed with a turn in Sofia Coppola’s Bling Ring and indies At Middleton, Anna, and Jamesy Boy. She drew acclaim for her breakout role as Violet Harmon on the first season of FX’s American Horror Story, and returned as a series regular for the show’s third season, American Horror Story: Coven. Farmiga recently filmed Warren Beatty’s untitled next feature and is currently shooting Sony’s meta horror-comedy The Final Girls with Malin Ackerman. She’s repped by ICM Partners, Authentic Talent and Literary Management and Peikoff Mahan.

After leading April’s horror hit Oculus, Scottish actress Karen Gillan has been tapped for another Blumhouse Productions genre feature. The Doctor Who thesp is joining Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, and newly-announced Taissa Farmiga in writer-director Ti West‘s revenge Western In A Valley Of Violence, which is ramping up ahead of a late June shoot. She’s the second repeat Blumhouse actor to fill out the cast of Valley, as Hawke starred in microbudget hits Sinister and The Purge for producer Jason Blum’s shingle. Gillan will play Ellen, the older sister to Farmiga’s character. Together they run a hotel in the town where Hawke’s drifter seeks vengeance for the death of his best friend.

Horror maestro Ti West pairs Ethan Hawke with an adorable canine sidekick, but he can't teach an old genre new tricks.

In other words, the first oater from slow-burn horror maestro Ti West (“The Innkeepers”) isn’t exactly “The Searchers.” If anything, this bare-bones throwback is such a straight shooter that it makes the hyper-linear “High Noon” feel like “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” For much of this handsomely-lensed but palpably unambitious film, it feels as though West was so happy to be playing with classic Western tropes that he never bothered adding anything to them. Audiences who are just looking for a bone to chew on might have fun gnawing at this, but others will wonder where all the meat has gone.