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‘All About Evil’ Horror Comedy Begins Production, First Stills!
Production has kicked into high-horror gear as Joshua Grannell has been shooting his first feature film All About Evil this month. Grannell has written the EVIL script and is directing the dark comedy, set in San Francisco. You can read all about the start of production, check out the first ever stills and the massive genre cast by reading below.
ALL ABOUT EVIL centers around a mousy librarian, who has inherited her father’s beloved but failing old movie house. In order to save the family business she discovers her inner serial killer — and a legion of rabid gore fans — when she starts turning out a series of grisly shorts. What her fans don’t realize yet is that the murders in the movies are all too real.
Grannell is in his 12th year of producing and hosting MIDNIGHT MASS, a midnight movie film series/show/phenomenon sponsored by Landmark Theatres. Next to the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, it’s the country’s biggest and longest running midnight movie series. Joshua Grannell is best known by his drag queen alter-ego PEACHES CHRIST, a cult cinema icon best known in the world of underground cinema.
A motley crew of talent has been assembled to make ALL ABOUT EVIL a cult classic like no other, including stars Natasha Lyonne (SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS, BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER, DIE MOMMIE DIE) and Thomas Dekker (TV’s HEROES, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES), Cassandra “Elvira Mistress of the Dark” Peterson, Mink Stole (HAIRSPRAY, CRY BABY, SERIAL MOM), Noah Segan (BRICK, DEADGIRL), Jack Donner (STAR TREK, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER), Julie-Caitlin Brown (BABYLON 5, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION) and PEACHES CHRIST .
Also on board for ALL ABOUT EVIL are producer Darren Stein (writer / director of JAWBREAKER), director of photography Tom Richmond (PALINDROMES, NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST, CHOPPING MALL, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES), and costume designer Frank Helmer (BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER, DEBS, EPIC MOVIE). On the San Francisco front are producers Brian Benson (FULL GROWN MEN, HAIKU TUNNEL), and Debbie Brubaker (LA MISSION, DARWIN AWARDS, DOPAMINE).
Following in the footsteps of last year’s independent films MILK and LA MISSION, ALL ABOUT EVIL will be filmed entirely on location in the San Francisco Bay Area where fog and blood make for the perfect EVIL back-drop.
Actresses Natasha Lyonne and Mink Stole
Director Joshua Grannell with actress Julie-Caitlin Broan
The Wayans are out to cancel the Cancel Culture with Scary Movie, and the cast assures it will do just that.
“They sort of have an across-the-board style,” Anna Faris tells EW. “It’s always been a part of the Wayans Brothers, their electricity. ‘Can we offend you? Will you still love us? Come on, you still love us, don’t you?'”
Regina Hall concurs, promising the “boundary-pushing” sixth installment in the horror parody franchise will “offend everyone.”
EW has shared a batch of behind-the-scenes images from Scary Movie, which hits theaters June 5 via Paramount.
Faris and Hall are joined by fellow franchise favorites Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, and Jon Abrahams in the legacy sequel.
The ensemble includes Damon Wayans Jr., Gregg Wayans, Kim Wayans, Benny Zielke, Cameron Scott Roberts, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Ruby Snowber, Savannah Lee Nassif, Sydney Park, Kenan Thompson, and Felissa Rose.
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) directs from a script by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, original Scary Movie director Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans (Scary Movie 2), and Rick Alvarez (A Haunted House).
The film will slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final.
Scary Movie launched in 2000, followed by Scary Movie 2 in 2001. The Wayans’ involvement ended there, but the series continued with 2003’s Scary Movie 3, 2006’s Scary Movie 4, and 2013’s Scary Movie 5.
Regina Hall & Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans & Regina Hall on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Michael Tiddes & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Regina Hall & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
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