A brand new horror-comedy function is able to take a stab at skewering Technology X tradition.
Director Todd Berger is helming the satirical slasher film The Large Kill for Dwell Nation Studios, with manufacturing having lately commenced, The Hollywood Reporter can completely reveal. The movie pays tribute to Gen X and is about to common Nineteen Nineties songs.
Main the ensemble solid are such style favorites as Skeet Ulrich (5 Nights at Freddy’s 2), Alicia Witt (Longlegs), Jolene (Star Trek: Enterprise) and Megan Suri (Companion). The solid additionally consists of comedy stars Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Pete Holmes (Girl of the Hour), Natasha Leggero (The Do-Over), Morgan Jay (St. Denis Medical), Trevor Wallace (Drugstore June) and Steph Tolev (Tires).
The Large Kill facilities on a bunch of longtime buddies and their households as they share a distant cabin following a funeral. When a killer begins looking the group, the chums are pressured to confront the darkest components of their previous.
Berger (It’s a Catastrophe) helms the movie from a script by Emmy-winning Each day Present author Daniel Radosh. Producers embody Dwell Nation Studios and Mason Novick for MXN Leisure. Ryan Kroft govt produces for Dwell Nation Studios.
“Horror plus comedy set to ’90s music equals a powerful sure for Dwell Nation Studios,” Dwell Nation Studios head of movie and tv Kroft says. “With this fan-favorite solid and phenomenal producing staff, The Large Kill is destined to be a horror hit.”
Provides Berger, “After I noticed Scream within the theater as a young person, it blew me away as a result of it was a slasher film stuffed with folks my very own age, speaking the best way we really talked. However then, over time, I seen one thing in regards to the protagonists of slashers — they weren’t getting old like the remainder of us. So now, to get to make a horror comedy about fellow Gen Xers with youngsters and mortgages and ruminations on existential dread, and to do it with an extremely witty script and wonderful solid, is a dream come true.”
Novick says in his personal assertion, “Horror comedies are one of many hardest genres to land. It’s so essential to ship on each the laughs and scares. We’re so lucky to have a solid that’s each legacy horror actors and a bunch of actually humorous comedians, this manner now we have each nice jokes and nice kills.”