NEIGHBORS Writer to Direct the Horror Comedy THRILL RIDE
Fox has picked up an original film idea called Thrill Ride from Neighbors scribes Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien. The movie is a horror comedy, and Cohen is set to direct it. The actual script for the movie will be written by Peter Warren.
When horror and comedy are brought together in a smart and engaging way they make for a completely awesome movie. Some of my favorites include Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, Young Frankenstein, and The Burbs just to name a few.
The move is described as being in the vein of This Is The End and Scream. I absolutely love the concept and think it could make for an amazingly fun flick. According to Deadline, the story "takes place at a particularly cruel high school where bullying has become the norm. At Senior Night, the school rents out an amusement park for the entire senior class where everyone rides the rides and plays the games as much as they want with no lines and no rules. The only drawback: students start dying on the rides in elaborate ways. All the exits are sealed, and there is a killer on the loose turning all the rides into ways of punishing the bullies and the so called bad people at school. Kids from all different cliques have to band together to figure out who the killer is and how to stop them."
I really liked what Cohen and O'Brien did with Neighbors, and I think they have the chops to deliver a great horror comedy.