Prime Video and Blumhouse Announce "Totally Killer"

The slasher-comedy horror film stars Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Julie Bowen, and Randall Park

CULVER CITY, California - May 12, 2022 - Today Prime Video and Blumhouse Television announced the upcoming slasher-comedy horror film Totally Killer, from Amazon Studios and Blumhouse. The film is a continuation of the deal forged by the two companies in 2019 and will star Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Mad Men), Olivia Holt (Cruel Summer), Julie Bowen (Modern Family, Life of the Party), and Randall Park (Always Be My Maybe, Fresh off the Boat). Nahnatchka Khan (Always Be My Maybe, Young Rock, Don Wong) is directing, and Jen D'Angelo penned the screenplay based on an original script by David Matalon and Sasha Perl-Raver. Principal photography begins today in Vancouver.

The film follows Jamie (Shipka) whose mom, Pam (Bowen) is terrorized by the resurgence of the Sweet Sixteen Killer - a masked maniac that slaughtered a group of teenage girls in the '80s. With the help of her friend Amelia (Kelcey Mawema), she travels back in time to 1987 and teams up with the teen version of her mom (Holt) to try and stop the killer.

The cast of newcomers and established actors portraying characters in the film include Lochlyn Munro ("Adult Blake"), Charlie Gillespie ("Teen Blake"), Stephi Chin-Salvo ("Marisa Song"), Anna Diaz ("Heather Hernandez"), Jeremy Monn-Djasgnar ("Teen Randy Finkle"), Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson ("Teen Lauren"), Ella Choi ("Teen Kara Molnar"), Kelcey Mawema ("Amelia"), Liana Liberato ("Tiffany Clark"), Nathaniel Appiah ("Teen Doug Summers"), and Jonathan Potts ("Adult Chris Dubusage").

The news comes on the heels of the announcement that Prime Video and Blumhouse acquired worldwide rights for the horror-drama and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Nanny from first-time feature writer/director Nikyatu Jusu. Additionally, the two companies have released eight films in the past two years as a part of their "Welcome to the Blumhouse" series, including: Bingo Hell, Black as Night, Madres, The Manor, Black Box, Evil Eye, Nocturne, and The Lie.

"The idea of a horror-comedy time travel movie is, I'm gonna be honest, something I never thought of in my life. So when I was approached by the amazing creatives at Blumhouse and Amazon about Totally Killer, it was just so unique and exciting I had to be involved. And then add this incredible cast on top of that? Everybody get readyyyyyyy," said director Nahnatchka Khan.

"We thought this genre mash-up of slasher/comedy with a twist of time travel was just so fun, and Nahnatchka Khan is perfect to direct," said Chris McCumber, president of Blumhouse Television.

"With Nahnatchka's vision and the exciting cast led by Kiernan Shipka and Olivia Holt, we are confident Totally Killer will resonate with our audience around the world," said Julie Rapaport, head of movies at Amazon Studios. "We could not be more thrilled to watch this story come to life and to continue our longstanding collaboration with the incredible team at Blumhouse."

Producers are Jason Blum for Blumhouse and Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath for Divide/Conquer. Executive producers are Nahnatchka Khan and Chloe Yellin for Fierce Baby Productions, Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold for Blumhouse Television, and Brian Parker.

Khan is represented by WME.

Shipka is represented by WME, Anonymous Content, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, and The Lede Company.

Holt is represented by WME, Management 360, and Vision PR.

Bowen is represented by ICM and Liberman Zerman Management.

Park is represented by UTA, Artists First, and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light.

Munro is represented by Angie Edgar at Alchemy Entertainment, Northern Exposure, and Buchwald.

Mawema is represented by Sara Parker @ PRINCIPALS talent Management.

Gillespie is represented by Luber Roklin, Vanderwerff Talent, Meyer Downs and Atlas Artists.

Chin-Salvo is represented by Mary Falcon at Play Management.

Diaz is represented by Performers Management.

Johnson is represented by MC Talent, Artists, and Representatives.

Monn-Djasngar is represented by Play Management.

Choi is represented by Michael S.E. White at The Characters.

Liberato is represented by Innovative Artists, Management 360, and attorney Cary Dobkin.

Appiah is represented by Zovation Talent.

Potts is represented by Edna Talent Management.

D'Angelo is represented by UTA, Artists First, and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.

Matalon is represented by Paradigm and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

Perl-Raver is represented by Mosaic.

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Blumhouse is a multimedia company regarded as the driving force in the horror renaissance. The company has produced over 150 movies and television series with theatrical grosses amounting to over $4.8 billion. In film, the company has produced iconic, genre, film franchises like Halloween, Paranormal Activity, The Purge, and prolific films like Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man; Glass, The Visit and Split from M. Night Shyamalan; Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman; Get Out from Jordan Peele; among several others. The television company operates in horror programming - with streaming anthology series like Welcome to the Blumhouse for Amazon and a slate of horror/thriller films for Epix - and has also expanded beyond genre with provocative and acclaimed scripted and unscripted series and documentaries, such as The Thing About Pam, starring two-time Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger, for NBC; The Horror of Dolores Roach, starring Justina Machado, for Amazon; The Good Lord Bird, starring Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, for Showtime; The Jinx for HBO; and lauded HBO series Sharp Objects, starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson, among others.

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