A new horror-comedy feature is ready to take a stab at skewering Generation X culture.
Director Todd Berger is helming the satirical slasher movie The Big Kill for Live Nation Studios, with production having recently commenced, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal. The film pays tribute to Gen X and is set to popular 1990s songs.
Leading the ensemble cast are such genre favorites as Skeet Ulrich (Five Nights at Freddy’s 2), Alicia Witt (Longlegs), Jolene (Star Trek: Enterprise) and Megan Suri (Companion). The cast also includes comedy stars Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Pete Holmes (Woman of the Hour), Natasha Leggero (The Do-Over), Morgan Jay (St. Denis Medical), Trevor Wallace (Drugstore June) and Steph Tolev (Tires).
The Big Kill centers on a group of longtime friends and their families as they share a remote cabin following a funeral. When a killer starts hunting the group, the friends are forced to confront the darkest elements of their past.
Berger (It’s a Disaster) helms the film from a script by Emmy-winning Daily Show writer Daniel Radosh. Producers include Live Nation Studios and Mason Novick for MXN Entertainment. Ryan Kroft executive produces for Live Nation Studios.
“Horror plus comedy set to ’90s music equals a resounding yes for Live Nation Studios,” Live Nation Studios head of film and television Kroft says. “With this fan-favorite cast and phenomenal producing team, The Big Kill is destined to be a horror hit.”
Adds Berger, “When I saw Scream in the theater as a teenager, it blew me away because it was a slasher movie filled with people my own age, talking the way we actually talked. But then, over the years, I noticed something about the protagonists of slashers — they weren’t aging like the rest of us. So now, to get to make a horror comedy about fellow Gen Xers with kids and mortgages and ruminations on existential dread, and to do it with an incredibly witty script and amazing cast, is a dream come true.”
Novick says in his own statement, “Horror comedies are one of the toughest genres to land. It’s so important to deliver on both the laughs and scares. We’re so fortunate to have a cast that is both legacy horror actors and a bunch of really funny comedians, this way we have both great jokes and great kills.”