The family that slays together stays together. Actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are set to direct the horror comedy Family Movie, and they’ll star along with their children Travis and Sosie Bacon, Variety reports today.
As if that’s not intriguing enough, the family will produce for Mixed Breed Films alongside Norman Golightly at Dark Castle Entertainment. That’s right; Family Movie is a Dark Castle horror pic.
As for the plot, the film follows “an eclectic but tight-knit family of filmmakers who suddenly find themselves in a real-life horror movie when a body turns up on the set of their latest low-budget slasher. As the production spirals comically out of control, they realize the only solution to keep filming is to cover up the murder by any means necessary.”
Family Movie is based on a screenplay by Dan Beers (Premature).
“There may not be a more compelling Hollywood family than the Bacons,” Dark Castle co-CEO Norman Golightly said in a statement. “We can’t wait to bring their unique dynamic to the screen and then wildly turn it on its head for audiences.”
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are, of course, no strangers to the horror genre, with Bacon starring in classics Friday the 13th and Tremors. Sedgwick starred in The Possession (2012). Bacon most recently appeared in Ti West’s MaXXXine and will lead the upcoming genre series “The Bondsman” for Prime Video.
Sosie Bacon led Parker Finn’s feature debut Smile and was raised on horror along with her brother, Travis. She told Bloody Disgusting in an interview, “What scared and terrified me the most had to have been Halloween because my brother made me watch it when I was eight. You know what was the scariest movie I think I’ve ever seen? Another one I watched way too young is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Which I think psychologically is similar to Smile, weirdly enough. I know they’re so different, but the psychological part of that, which is, I think, probably the most disturbing thing about just watching any movie. The Ring also scared the hell out of me.”
Travis Bacon is a music artist and film composer who recently scored the short film “Keep Coming Back.”
Stay tuned for more on this one as we learn it.
Sosie Bacon stars in Paramount Pictures Presents in Association with Paramount Players A Temple Hill Production “SMILE.”