Director Meredith Red's short film, the horror/comedy MURDER FOR DUMMIES is set to make its world premiere at Screamfest next month (see ScreamfestLA.com for screening times and event details), and today we're proud to present the EXCLUSIVE unveiling of the film's trailer, embedded above. We also have a poster and a batch of images from the film for you to check out below.
Here's the synopsis:
MURDER FOR DUMMIES is a guide to killing your husband without breaking a nail! One dead redneck, two low rent strippers and a seismic “Chaingazism” of blood, guts and Splatstick fun. After Kandy Kane kills her abusive dickhead of a husband, she recruits her BFF and fellow three-dollar stripper Misty May to rid themselves of the body. As his lifeless corpse goes from trailer park to trailer park Kandy & Misty’s friendship is tested. Hiding a decomposing body is harder then red panty night at Wet Willies!
Cleo Elliott (who happens to be daughter of Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross!), Martha Thatcher, and Doug Lane star. Writer/Director, Author and Meredith's husband Eric Red (100 Feet, Body Parts) was the Director of Photography on the film while Barbara Casey, was the executive producer.
Meredith Red gave the following statement about the film:
This idea struck me one afternoon and I sat down to write the script in a few hours. Then immediately shoved it in a desk drawer and forgot about it for several years until one day I went to get my hair done at the local salon in Malibu and the rest is history. My hairdresser Marie was pushing me to write something for Hallmark and realized pretty quickly that just wasn’t my scene. I’m definitely more of a super soaker filled with blood than I am let’s fall in love without even kissing kind of girl. The cast and crew are all clients of the salon so it all came together pretty easily. My vision of the film was hot chick pillow fight meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I love these characters and my goal was to have the audience rooting for them as they try to get rid of a dead body. How far would they go? And I immediately thought to myself, get out the chainsaws!
If people laugh and scream… my work here is done."
There's no way I'm not going to be watching a movie that its director describes as "hot chick pillow fight meets TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE". I'm totally on board for this one.
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