{"id":307789,"date":"2025-12-09T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307789\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:09:10","slug":"david-dastmalchian-joins-wolf-creek-creator-greg-mcleans-action-horror-film-kill-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307789\/","title":{"rendered":"David Dastmalchian joins Wolf Creek creator Greg McLean&#8217;s action horror film Kill Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten months ago, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/the-horror-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that Wolf Creek franchise creator Greg McLean would be directing a meta action horror film called The Horror Game, which had\u00a0Ella Balinska of the Netflix\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/resident-evil-tv-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Resident Evil\u00a0series<\/a>\u00a0signed on to star in it. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/david-dastmalchian-joins-ella-balinska-horror-kill-screen-1236643282\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports that the project is moving forward with McLean and Balinska still attached, but the title has changed to Kill Screen \u2013 and genre regular David Dastmalchian, whose credits include Late Night with the Devil and Dexter: Resurrection, has joined Balinska in the cast!<\/p>\n<p>Scripted by Gus Krieger (Would You Rather),\u00a0Kill Screen\u00a0has the following synopsis:\u00a0While desperate to find her missing sister, a young woman (Balinska) and her three best friends find themselves trapped inside a virtual reality game where every level forces its players to survive a different genre of a horror movie. When they learn that dying in the game means dying in real life, the friends are forced to hack, slash and battle their way to the toxic mastermind behind it all. Want a little more information? Here\u2019s another synopsis! Desperate to find her missing sister, a young woman (Balinska) and her three friends are drawn into a mysterious virtual reality horror game. Each level forces them to survive an entirely different horror subgenre\u2014from slashers to supernatural, zombie horror to psychological. When they learn that dying in the game means dying in real life, the friends must outthink and outfight the game\u2019s sadistic creator (Dastmalchian) before their luck runs out.<\/p>\n<p>The film is being produced by Tyler Condon of CinemaWays, alongside Matthew Shreder of Concourse Media. Condon provided the following statement: \u201cKill Screen\u00a0is built for a generation raised on horror and interactive storytelling. It\u2019s terrifying, smart, and wildly entertaining \u2013 a movie that celebrates the genre while reinventing it. Greg\u2019s potent vision and Gus\u2019s script deliver a cinematic world that fans will want to explore again and again.\u201d Shreder added, \u201cGenre-savvy, high-concept horror is proving to be dynamic in the current marketplace. Kill Screen\u00a0taps directly into that demand with a concept that pays homage to every horror sub-genre ever imagined \u2013 while offering something completely new.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Kill Screen is currently in pre-production. Are you glad to hear that David Dastmalchian has joined the cast to play a sadistic \u201ctoxic mastermind\u201d? 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