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‘Pizza Movie’ – Hulu’s Hallucinogenic Comedy Starring Gaten Matarazzo Streams in April
Gaten Matarazzo’s first post-“Stranger Things” role is in the college comedy Pizza Movie alongside Sean Giambrone (“The Goldbergs”) and Lulu Wilson (“The Haunting of Hill House”).
The film will debut on Hulu April 3 following its world premiere at SXSW in Texas on March 13.
Pizza Movie follows a shy college student and his reckless roommate who set out on a simple mission to grab pizza. After a strange dose of a mind-bending experimental drug, they’re thrust into a chaotic night of absurd encounters, wild hallucinations, and unexpected revelations that could change their lives forever.
Jack Martin, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Marcus Scribner, Caleb Hearon, Sarah Sherman, Justin Cooley, Kevin Matthew Reyes, Adam Herschman, and Lucas Zelnick round out the cast.
“Saturday Night Live” alumni Nick Kocher & Brian McElhaney write and direct. The duo, collectively known as BriTANicK, also penned the upcoming action comedy thriller Over Your Dead Body, out April 24.
Pizza Movie is produced by Jeremy Garelick & Will Phelps of American High, Billy Rosenberg of All Things Comedy, Jason Zaro, Molle DeBartolo, and Max Butler. Matarazzo receives an executive producer credit.
Stay tuned for a trailer.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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