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‘Self Storage’ – ‘Terrifier 2’ Actor Chris Jericho Teams with ‘The Walking Dead’ Author on Psychological Thriller
Professional wrestler, musician, and Terrifier 2 actor Chris Jericho is collaborating with The Walking Dead comic book author Jay Bonansinga on upcoming psychological thriller Self Storage, per Variety.
Based on Bonansinga’s 2016 novel, Self Storage “centers on a heroin-addicted father and his son who accidentally lock themselves inside a self-storage unit. Surviving will depend on a battle with demons both real and manufactured by drug withdrawal.”
“The Walking Dead” and The Devil’s Rejects actor Lew Temple is set to play the lead character, John Fitzgerald.
Bonansinga will direct from his own script.
The film will be executive produced by Jericho’s Babyface Assassin Productions alongside Bonansinga and Jeff Siegel for Delirium Tremens, and Jason Cherubini for Dawn’s Light. Besides executive producing, Jericho will appear in a key supporting role in Self Storage. No additional character details have been announced as of yet, though.
The multihyphenate Jericho appeared in 2022’s mega-slasher Terrifier 2 as hospital attendant Burke and was a special guest on “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” on Shudder, where he introduced Bloodsucking Freaks. He served as an executive producer on documentary The Death Tour and produced the documentary I’m Too Old for This Sh*t: A Heavy Metal Fairy Tale. More recently, the wrestler/actor has been announced to appear in upcoming horror movie Dark Match. In other words, Chris Jericho is no stranger to the realm of heavy metal and horror.
Bestselling author/filmmaker Jay Bonansinga is known for co-writing several novels based on “The Walking Dead” comics series, with Robert Kirkman of Skybound Entertainment; and book series “Stan Lee’s The Devil’s Quintet,” a collaboration with late comic book legend Stan Lee.
Self Storage will make the second feature adaptation of Bonansinga’s novels following Lionsgate’s The Killer’s Game, based on his 1997 novel, starring Dave Bautista.
Keep a lookout on Bloody Disgusting for additional details on Self Storage as they arrive.
NEON has been absolutely slaying the marketing game for their horror output this year, and they’re kicking the Longlegs campaign into high gear with one more month until release.
A cryptic ad in The Seattle Times today (seen below) has led clever horror fans to discover TheBirthdayMurders.net, the brand new official viral marketing website for Longlegs.
The in-universe website details the victims of the serial killer known as Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), described as a “Satan-worshipping psycho” who has terrorized families throughout the Pacific Northwest for nearly three decades.
The website details, “A bloody trail of bodies here in the great state of Oregon attests to the depraved savagery of this one-of-a-kind serial killer. With over three dozen victims that we know of, LONGLEGS is one of the most prolific mass murderers ever to have graced the region, and his gruesome endeavors are the stuff of nightmares. At first, all of the killings appeared to be straightforward murder-suicides: the handiwork of average men who suddenly snapped and slaughtered their wives and children. But a series of eerie coded messages left at the crime scenes indicate that someone – or something – is influencing these horrific crimes. The cryptic letters are signed by someone calling himself LONGLEGS.”
“With thirty-eight kills to his name, LONGLEGS has torn apart the lives of eleven different families throughout the Beaver State. His victims were good people: honest fathers, decent mothers, innocent little children.”
The website is loaded with secrets, clues, and gruesome (faux) crime scene photos, and you might even find a mention of yours truly nestled in there. Poke around. Stay a while.
Longlegs arrives in theaters July 12.
The upcoming serial killer horror movie marks the return of director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel). Nicolas Cage stars alongside Maika Monroe, with Monroe playing an FBI agent and Cage playing a serial killer.
In the film, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.
The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, disturbing images and some language.”
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