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First Look at the ‘Slumber Party Massacre’ Reimagining! [Image]
Shout! Studios, the multi-platform entertainment distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory, was not only behind the remake of David Cronenberg’s Rabid, but has also produced a reimagining of Roger Corman’s 1982 cult classic Slumber Party Massacre.
Bloody Disgusting has scored the first-ever image from the new take that was directed by Danishka Esterhazy, the filmmaker behind the wild and crazy Banana Splits Movie.
The image was released ahead of Cannes where Raven Banner Entertainment has been tapped as Shout!’s international sales partner. The film is already set for a Syfy premiere later this year.
In the new take, “A slumber party turns into a bloodbath when a power drill-wielding psychopath disrupts the fun.”
In the original movie, the killer was a newly-escaped psychotic serial killer.
Hannah Gonera (Spell), Frances Sholto-Douglas (“Black Mirror”), Mila Rayne, Alex McGregor (Searchers, Blood Drive), and Reze-Tiana Wessels star in this remake.
From a screenplay by Suzanne Keilly (“Ash vs Evil Dead”, Leprechaun Returns), Slumber Party Massacre is produced in partnership with Blue Ice Pictures, with Bob Emmer, Garson Foos, Jordan Fields and Brent Haynes executive producing.
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Exclusives
‘Home Bodies’ Image & Poster Introduce Isolated Twins in Sci-Fi Nightmare [Fantasia 2026]
Sci-fi thriller Home Bodies is set to unsettle audiences at the 30th edition of Fantasia, and our exclusive image introduces a peculiar pair of twins at the center.
Home Bodies makes its World Premiere July 23, at 9:30 PM at Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, with the filmmakers and cast in attendance.
An eerie new poster created by Justin Erickson of Phantom City Creative heralds the film’s premiere.
In the film, “Red and Blue, twins raised in total isolation by an automated house, live according to the rules set by Papa, a disembodied voice behind a locked door who provides food, shelter, entertainment, and order. Their carefully controlled world is disrupted by the arrival of Pal, an enigmatic humanoid stranger whose presence begins to fracture the only life the twins have ever known.”
It’s a premise that calls another Canadian creeper to mind and has us intrigued: Pin.
Emma Ho, Ian Ho, and Ess Hödlmoser star.
Home Bodies is directed and produced by Casey Walker, who returns to Fantasia more than a decade after his horror-comedy A Little Bit Zombie screened at the festival in 2012. He’s since gone on to produce a number of defining Canadian genre films like In a Violent Nature, The Void, and Pyewacket.
“I started my career in Montreal and Fantasia has been part of my life ever since,” said Walker. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to where it all started and share Home Bodies on such a special anniversary of the festival.“
Karen Harnisch (Infinity Pool, Sleeping Giant) also produces. Executive producers are Todd Brown (The Raid, Mandy) and Chad Archibald (undertone).
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