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David Arquette’s next feature will be shot in Hollywood North. Filming of the slasher movie ‘Kill Or Be Killed’ will take place in North Bay, Ontario, starting this August. David Straiton will direct, based on a script by Nick Zigler. David Arquette and Alisha Newton have been cast.
The official synopsis is as follows: School’s out, and recent grad Dani (Newton) and her friends are ready for one last summer blowout. But when a senior’s mutilated body is discovered on the high school football field – killed in a disturbingly theatrical fashion – it’s clear that someone is playing by a new set of rules. A red envelope pinned to the corpse contains a yearbook photo and a chilling directive: “Kill or Be Killed”. As the bodies pile up, Dani and her friends are thrust into a terrifying game, orchestrated by a sick killer, that transcends their small town and soon goes viral.
David Arquette is a familiar and popular name in the slasher/horror comedy genre, having played Sheriff Dewey Riley in the ‘Scream’ movies, beginning with 1996’s ‘Scream.’ This led him to be cast in movies like ‘Ravenous,’ ‘Eight Legged Freaks,’ ‘The Tripper,’ ‘Spree,’ and ‘12 Hour Shift,’ to name a few. Non-horror movies he has starred in include ‘Never Been Kissed,’ ‘Ready to Rumble,’ ‘Conception,’ ‘Bone Tomahawk,’ ‘Mob Town,’ and ‘The Unholy Trinity.’ In his upcoming-movies slate, there is Jeremy Weiss’s horror action thriller ‘The Night Driver,’ co-starring Josh Lucas and Alyssa Milano, Johnny J. Tabor’s crime thriller ‘Green River Killer,’ and Greg Bekkers’s drama ‘Wildcard.’
Alisha Newton is known for her performances as Georgina ‘Georgie’ Fleming Morris in CBC’s ‘Heartland,’ Erin Collins in Netflix’s ‘My Life with the Walter Boys,’ and Helen Mathis in Netflix’s ‘Devil in Ohio.’ She played Devon Travis in the Fox crime drama series ‘Murder in a Small Town.’ As far as movies are concerned, we saw her in the Gina Carano starrer ‘Scorched Earth,’ and Katie Boland’s comedy drama ‘We’re All in This Together.’
‘Kill or Be Killed’ will be director David Straiton’s first feature directorial. He has previously directed for TV shows, some of which are ‘Blue Skies,’ ‘Magnum P.I.,’ ‘Narcos,’ ‘Hemlock Grove,’ ‘The Firm,’ ‘Shooter,’ ‘Blood Drive,’ and ‘The Good Doctor.’
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