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‘Kids vs. Aliens’: Jason Eisener’s Sci-Fi Horror Adventure Unites Bloody Disgusting and ‘Hobo with a Shotgun’ Team!
We here at Bloody Disgusting are massive fans of Jason Eisener, the Canadian-based filmmaker who has recently been kicking ass with the astounding “Darkside of the Ring” series. However, horror fans know Eisener as the director behind the ridiculously awesome holiday short “Treevenge” and also the grindhouse-inspired Hobo with a Shotgun. He would then go on to get behind the camera on the emotional V/H/S/2 short, “Slumber Party Alien Abduction”.
Bloody Disgusting is working with Eisener once again, teaming with the Hobo with a Shotgun crew on the sci-fi horror Kids vs. Aliens, which currently wrapped production in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Look above for a shot straight from the set.
“Kids vs. Aliens follows Gary and his older sister Samantha as an all-time rager of a teen house party turns to terror when aliens attack, forcing the two warring siblings to band together to survive the night.”
The film stars Dominic Mariche (“Are You Afraid of the Dark?”), Calem Macdonald (“Moonshine,” “The Umbrella Academy”), Emma Vickers (“Diggstown”), and newcomers Phoebe Rex, Asher Grayson, Ben Tector, and Isaiah Fortune.
“Bringing alien terrors to life is a literal dream come true,” said Eisener. “Kids vs. Aliens is inspired by my childhood nightmares and obsessions. Hopefully my parents will forgive me for using their house as our main location.”
The film reunites the creative team behind the 2011 cult horror hit Hobo with a Shotgun, with Eisener at the helm and sharing writing duties with John Davies, and Rob Cotterill (The Lighthouse, Possessor) producing for Yer Dead Productions.
Kids vs. Aliens is produced by Josh Goldbloom of Cinepocalypse Productions in association with Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting. It follows V/H/S/94 as the second collaboration between the two companies.
Producers also include Marc Tetreault and Jason Levangie of Shut Up & Colour Pictures (Suck It Up, Night Blooms).
Executive Producers include Mark Ward, Adam Boorstin & Michael Schreiber for Studio71, and Bloody Disgusting’s Tom Owen.
Deadline first reported the news.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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