The Purge director James DeMonaco has finally spoken about his upcoming next directorial venture with Saturday Night Live Pete Davidson titled The home. Speaking to Collider, DeMonaco described The Home as a “heavy horror film” in which Davidson plays a graffiti artist who has been sentenced to community service at a mysterious retirement home. The Bupkis star has been in charge of the project for more than a year.
The Purge director James DeMonaco has finally spoken about his upcoming next directorial venture with Saturday Night Live Pete Davidson titled The home. Speaking to Collider, DeMonaco described The Home as a “heavy horror film” in which Davidson plays a graffiti artist who has been sentenced to community service at a mysterious retirement home. The Bupkis star has been in charge of the project for more than a year.
“I don’t want to give too much away, but this is about him. He is a graffiti artist. He gets in trouble with the law and his community service, instead of going to jail he has to live in a retirement home and become the new supervisor,” DeMonaco said. “So it’s about how older generations interact with the youth of America. Then of course there is intense horror and crazy mythology about what these people are and who they are and what they are doing in this house and how that is affecting the youth of America.”
What is “Home” about?
In The Home, Davidson will portray a troubled man named Max “who starts working at a retirement home and realizes that its residents and caregivers harbor dark secrets,” reads the synopsis. “As he examines the building and the forbidden fourth floor, he begins to uncover connections to his own past and his upbringing as a foster child.”
The film will be directed by James De Monaco from a screenplay he co-wrote with Adam Candor. DeMonaco, Candor, Miramax’s Bill Block and Sebastian K. Lemercier also serve as producers.
Davidson is no stranger to the horror genre, having previously appeared in A24’s horror comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies. He most recently lent his voice to the character of Autobot Mirage in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Next up is Sony Pictures’ Dumb Money and David Michod’s Wizards!