The Curse of Bridge Hollow scribe Todd Berger is carving up Gen X satirical slasher The Big Kill, and THR reports that it’s found its stars.
Scream stalwart Skeet Ulrich, Alicia Witt (Longlegs, Urban Legend), and Pete Holmes (Woman of the Hour) will star in the film, which is said to pay tribute to Gen X and is set to popular 1990s songs.
The Big Kill follows 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.”
The trio joins an ensemble cast that includes Jolene (Star Trek: Enterprise) and Megan Suri (Companion, It Lives Inside), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Natasha Leggero (The Do-Over), Morgan Jay (St. Denis Medical), Trevor Wallace (Drugstore June), and Steph Tolev (Tires).
Berger directs the film, which just wrapped production, 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 told THR. “With this fan-favorite cast and phenomenal producing team, The Big Kill is destined to be a horror hit.”
Berger added, “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.“
Stay tuned for more on this horror comedy filled with ’90s jams as it arrives.