The Curse of Bridge Hollow scribe Todd Berger will next be slicing his way into the slasher subgenre with The Big Kill, which recently wrapped production.
The previously announced ensemble cast intrigues even more with producer Mason Novick’s illuminating comments on the slasher’s title.
Speaking with Bloody FM’s The Boo Crew podcast on their most recent episode celebrating Forbidden Fruits, Novick teased his upcoming project.
“I just shot a really fun horror comedy called The Big Kill, which is sort of a light play on The Big Chill. This is about a group of Gen Xers and their teenagers, who find themselves in a slashery situation, and it’s really funny. We have a really good cast.”
Novick isn’t being hyperbolic on his cast.
Skeet Ulrich (Scream, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2), Alicia Witt (Longlegs, Urban Legend), and Pete Holmes (Woman of the Hour) will star in the film. Megan Suri (Companion, It Lives Inside), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Natasha Leggero (The Do-Over), Morgan Jay (St. Denis Medical), Trevor Wallace (Drugstore June), and Steph Tolev (Tires) also star.
The Big Kill follows a “group of longtime friends and their families as they share a remote cabin following a funeral. When a killer starts hunting the group, the friends are forced to confront the darkest elements of their past.”
The 1983 dramedy The Big Chill introduced an ensemble that sees former college friends reunite for a funeral, but it’s safe to assume that The Big Kill will take things in a much deadlier direction.
Berger directs the film, which just wrapped production, from a script by Emmy-winning Daily Show writer Daniel Radosh.
The director previously teased this project, “So now, to get to make a horror comedy about fellow Gen Xers with kids and mortgages and ruminations on existential dread, and to do it with an incredibly witty script and amazing cast, is a dream come true.”
