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Porn-themed Horror Comedy ‘Deep Murder’ Gets a Legit Cast
Much like sports, porn and horror don’t really mesh well, which is probably why porn-centric genre films always end up on home video. But when was the last time we saw one that had a really good cast?
Deep Murder, Nick Corirossi’s horror comedy set inside the world of soft-core pornography, has landed Christopher McDonald, Katie Aselton Duplass, Johnny Simmons and Stephanie Drake, Variety reports.
It follows a group of porn stars and filmmakers who start getting picked off by a masked killer.
According to the logline the characters originally come off as sex-obsessed archetypes but begin to evolve from cliches into real people as they are forced to figure out how to survive. It’s compared to raunchy comedies and Zucker brothers’ pictures like Naked Gun and Airplane.
McDonald is best known for playing Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore. Aselton Duplass is one of the stars of FX’s “The League” and the comic book drama “Legion”. Simmons’ credits include 21 Jump Street, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Drake is best known for playing Meredith, Don Draper’s bubbly assistant on “Mad Men.”
The cast also includes Jessica Parker Kennedy (“Black Sails”) and Chris Redd (“Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping”).
Stephanie Drake in AMC’s “Mad Men”
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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