Based on a short story by Josh Malerman (Bird Box, Incidents Around the House), A Ben Evans Film is now in production in Detroit.
Bloody Disgusting has exclusively learned that Grammy-nominated electronic music producer Joel “deadmau5” Zimmerman has joined the cast in a cameo role.
The movie will also feature a Greasy Strangler reunion, with Michael St. Michaels and Sky Elobar once again playing a father-son duo.
“Any chance to reunite with Michael and get a little grease back on the screen is a good time,” says Elobar. “We had a blast making The Greasy Strangler, and it’s been a lot of fun bringing that energy into A Ben Evans Film.”
A Ben Evans Film finds the titular filmmaker (Elobar) struggling to complete his magnum opus. As work progresses and Evans descends deeper into obsession, he finds himself going to greater and greater lengths to complete his “masterpiece.”
The darkly comic, psychological horror story is written and directed by James Henry Hall & Bret K. Hall.
Alamo Drafthouse founder and NEON co-founder Tim League (The Greasy Strangler, The ABCs of Death) has boarded the project as an executive producer.
Taylor Cole has also joined as producer alongside Malerman and Ryan Lewis’ Spin a Black Yarn, Magical Jungle Productions, and Little Spark Films.
“From the moment A Ben Evans Film crossed my desk, it was clear this was the kind of bold, off-center genre project you don’t see every day,” says Cole. “It’s unsettling, original, and exactly the kind of film that stays with you.”
