A couple years ago, Spider One – the frontman of Powerman 5000 and the brother of fellow musician/filmmaker Rob Zombie – made his feature directorial debut with the horror anthology Allegoria. He has since followed that with Bury the Bride and Little Bites, and his fourth feature, Big Baby, is scheduled to have its world premiere at Screamfest LA on October 9th. In anticipation of that screening, a teaser trailer for Big Baby has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.
Big Baby tells the story of Adam Lewis, a successful horror screenwriter struggling for inspiration for his latest script. After a graphic and realistic nightmare of a hulking man dressed in a baby mask and onesie who axe murders his girlfriend Kate in the middle of the night, Adam gets the inspiration he needs for his new screenplay. Excited about the direction his story is taking, he starts losing himself in his script. Things are better than ever for Adam and Kate until “Big Baby” starts appearing in real life and tormenting and killing victims fueled by his own revenge. Characters from Adam’s script begin to pay him visits pleading for their lives, and he quickly realizes he holds their fate in his hands. Power and fear completely consume Adam until his girlfriend Kate is terrified of the man she once loved. Brandon Scott (Dead to Me) plays Adam Lewis, with Krsy Fox (Terrifier 3) taking on the role of Kate. Adam Marcinowski (Allegoria) plays Big Baby. Also in the cast are Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), Jordan Elsass (Little Fires Everywhere), Radek Lord (Ballers), Torio Van Grol (Accident, Suicide or Murder), Kate Freund (Creepshow), Cameron Cowperthwaite (Station 19), Kirby Bliss Blanton (Project X), Nelson Leis (The Last of Us), and Chaz Bono (American Horror Story).
Big Baby is coming our way from OneFox Productions. One and Fox are producing, while Cher and Bono executive produce alongside Tyler Connolly, Terry Poor, and Wendy and Mark Berry.
When the project was announced, Spider One provided the following statement: “My goal for Big Baby was to turn the slasher genre inside out… to craft a meta script about creation and those creations coming to life. It’s a terrifying premise centered around a writer desperately trying to control the narrative of his script and his life, which of course proves to be an impossible task with deadly consequences.“ The idea of Big Baby goes back to Allegoria, where Big Baby was a goofy, dirt cheap slasher that characters are shown watching. I said in my Allegoria review that “I’d gladly watch a feature version of Big Baby.” Now we’re getting one, with a meta twist.
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