Marcus Dunstan, the writer behind Saw IV-Saw 3D, is set to direct a new Airbnb horror movie titled All My Friends Are Dead. Written by Josh Sims and Jessica Sarah Flaum, the film is due to start filming in Canada this November.
Jade Pettyjohn (Destroyer, Deadwood) is currently in talks to star in the upcoming film, with additional casting announcements expected to come over the next few months. The plot synopsis reads as follows;
“…a group of close college friends get a steal on a killer Airbnb for the biggest music festival of the year. A weekend of partying quickly takes a turn for the worse, as the group is murdered one by one. They soon discover that each one of their deaths directly corresponds to one of the seven deadly sins.”
Step aside summer camps! Move over mansions! Between Barbarian, Margaux and now All My Friends Are Dead, it looks like rental homes are the hot new horror location.
Producer John Baldecchi (Happy Death Day, Children of the Corn) describes the film as “an entertaining mix of humor and horror that appeals to the die-hard horror fans, comedy lovers, scaredy cats alike.”
The last few years have seen a string of effectively hilarious horror comedies, from 2019’s Ready or Not to Joe Keery’s rideshare rampage in Spree. Marcus Dunstan is no stranger to the horror-comedy subgenre (his writing credits also include 2005’s Feast) and so we can be sure that All My Friends Are Dead is going to be a laugh riot.
The film kicks off a 10-picture, $15m thriller slate between production company Roundtable Entertainment and streaming company Cinedigm. The initial press release for the deal describes it as a ‘well-structured slate of efficiently budgeted and high-impact films targeting specific genres were chosen for its youth and commercial appeal and packaged to find success with a global audience.’
With the exciting news that audiences will be getting not one, but TEN new thrillers from this partnership, All My Friends Are Dead will surely be a funny and frightening way to cement the deal.
