In case you don’t know or haven’t appreciated how wacky and wild thenew movie#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Deadis, Collider can exclusively unveil theRed Band trailerfor the horror-comedy so you can witness it with your own eyes. The story centers around a group of undergraduate friends who take a trip to attend the biggest music festival of the year: Karmapalooza. The problem is, things get deadly and terrifying at the Airbnb house they rented. The movie debuts in theaters, on Digital and On-Demand in just under a month.
The new trailer makes it clear that there will be two distinct moments inAll My Friends Are Dead. First, we’ll get to see Sarah (Jade Pettyjohn) and her friends living it up while they wait for and enjoy Karmapalooza in all the R-rated ways you’d expect from young adults: withsex, drugs, and alcohol. Then, things take a wild turn whena masked killerstarts taking out Sarah’s friends one by one.
Besides all that, the trailer makes it clear thatAll My Friends Are Deadwill pull out all the stops to shock viewers and deliverimpressive amounts of dark humor. From characters vomiting an insane amount of blood to bellies exploding with guts out and a good number of sharp weapons being used,the horror movie will get pretty creativewith its deaths and traps.
It’s no surprise thatAll My Friends Are Deadexplores creative death scenarios: its director isMarcus Dunstan, who previously penned the script offour installments in theSawfilm series. He also co-wroteScary Stories to Tell In The Dark, a title whosesequel is long overdue. Aside from Pettyjohn, the cast also featuresJoJo Siwa(School of Rock),Jennifer Ens(Chapelwaite),Justin Derickson(Monster High),Ali Fumiko Whitney(Cabin Girl),Julian Haig(Riverdale), andCardi Wong(Are You Afraid of the Dark?).
All My Friends Are Deadwas among the movies that stood out duringthis year’s Tribeca Film Festival. While promoting the film toScreenRant, Dunstan talked about what sets#AMFADapart and revealed what they did to make the movie as distinct as possible fromothers in the genre, including their approach tothe final girl trope. Dunstan said that one way to do it was that “every character has got a secret, and we have to make the traditional Final Girl aesthetic something new, fresh, and unexpected. Like, ‘Go ahead. We embrace the trope, but we don’t end with the trope.'”
#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Deadpremieres in select theaters and on digital/on-demand simultaneously on August 2. you’re able to watch our exclusive Red Band trailer above.
#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead
A group of close college friends rents an Airbnb for a highly anticipated music festival. Their weekend of revelry quickly turns sinister when they begin to be murdered one by one. As they try to uncover the killer’s identity, they realize each death is connected to one of the seven deadly sins.
