Movies
Kevin Smith Shares First Look at Anthology ‘KillRoy Was Here’
As we recently learned, Kevin Smith has re-tooled his planned Krampus film into KillRoy Was Here, a creature feature anthology inspired by the “KilRoy Was Here” graffiti that was prominent during World War II.
The film will feature a long-nosed monster designed by Robert Kurtzman, and it began filming in Sarasota, Florida last Summer. Smith is being assisted by the students of the Ringling College of Art and Design, and filming has continued here in 2018.
On Twitter, Smith rang in 2018 with a behind the scenes photo from the KillRoy Was Here set, revealing that daughter Harley Quinn Smith is in the Creepshow-style anthology.
Check out the first look photo below.
Starting 2018 the fun way: on a movie set! pic.twitter.com/IKh7QhVyVj
— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) January 2, 2018
“Dude just got lost, and the next time they find him he’s just sitting there, eating babies,” Smith recently described the titular villain, a Vietnam soldier who becomes a monster, on the Edumacation podcast. Co-host Andy McElfresh chimed in, “And he becomes transformed. Before he loses all of his humanity, they try to rehabilitate him, and instead that drives him out into the wilderness, where he’s transformed into this monster.”
“He’s all melted in the face, that’s what creates the long nose effect,” Smith added.
Justin Kucsulain is playing KillRoy, who will have no ears and no eyeballs in his final form.
The cast also includes Azita Ghanizada, Ryan O’Nan, Kathryn Parks, Brendan Ragen, Michael Perez and Cindy De La Cruz.
There’s no slowing down Alice Maio Mackay. The filmmaker behind So Vam, Bad Girl Boogey, and this year’s The Serpent’s Skin is already back with sci-fi horror Our Effed Up World.
Starring Annapurna Sriram (Fucktoys), Sara Thompson (“One of Us is Lying”) and Jess McLeod (It’s a Wonderful Knife) and produced by Dark Star Pictures, the film will receive its International Premiere at Fantasia Film Festival on July 18, 2026.
The first teaser has arrived ahead of its fest screening, which sees a group of friends contend with terror from outer space when it crash lands nearby.
The synopsis reads: “Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of shitkicker friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.”
Scott Major, Brandon Flynn, Jordan Dulieu, JackHaven, Leela Varghese, Tommy Dorfman, and Chris Gun also star.
I Saw the TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun produces.
Mackay directs from a script co-written with Ben Pahl Robinson.
Mackay shares of her latest, “Our Effed Up World is my latest no budget queer film. I wanted to delve into a completely new sub-genre—sci-fi. But still through my signature lens and blend of campiness and melodrama. This project allowed me to take a step back from all the horrors that are happening around us and to really reflect on what makes us who we are and what we need to do to hang on to what is important in our lives. Whilst also being a rumination on grief and how we cope with living in an ‘effed” up world.'”
The 30th edition of Fantasia begins today; stay tuned for more from our coverage of the fest.
You must be logged in to post a comment.