Actual-world headlines involving tub salts present inspiration for an upcoming horror musical.
Tania Raymonde (Misplaced, Goliath) leads the complete solid of writer-director Taylor Morden’s function Eat your coronary heart outwhich lately completed its manufacturing, The Hollywood Reporter discovered. The solid additionally consists of Jesse Rath (Supergirl), Emily Kimball (Dexter: Resurrection), Breanna Yde (College of Rock), Rob Huebel (Working level), Brian Austin Inexperienced (Beverly Hills, 90210), Steve Agee (Peacemaker), Clare Grant (Royal Palm) and Brendan Sexton III (Three billboards outdoors of Ebbing, Missouri).
Initially from PopMotion Photos, Eat your coronary heart out takes place in a small city that’s about to host a serious music pageant, simply as a dangerous new social gathering drug begins to unfold among the many native youth. The drug guarantees exhilarating results, however carries such unlucky unintended effects as uncontrollable rage, overwhelming power, and a sudden yearning for human flesh. Whereas all of that is taking place, greatest mates Jules (Raymonde) and Rory (Yde) put together for his or her punk band to play its first large-scale live performance whereas navigating town that’s now teeming with flesh-eating demons.
“These had been two big issues that I wished to test off, and you’ll nearly by no means do each in the identical movie,” Raymonde explains. “Changing into a rock star, enjoying music and killing zombies…I imply, what else do you want? It is sort of the right film.”
Morden, recognized for guiding the 2020 documentary The most recent blockbusterdirected Eat your coronary heart out based mostly on a screenplay he co-wrote with Emily Claire. Morden and Claire function producers, whereas government producers embody Raymonde, Jaice DuMars and Robert Trevino. Stefanie Seifer, Hailey Giles and Chiara Marini of Spark Casting dealt with casting duties.
The impartial movie will function unique musical performances as a part of the horror-comedy narrative. Eat your coronary heart out is at present in post-production following a five-week shoot in Eugene, Oregon, and can embody sensible results.
“Eat your coronary heart out combines all the things I really like about motion pictures: sensible results, absurdist comedy, sensible musical numbers and a surprisingly heartfelt story about friendship and discovering your house on the earth,” provides Morden. “It is the sort of film I’d have rented 100 occasions over on the native video retailer.”