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Jill wakes up next to a bloody corpse, and her first call isn’t to the police, but to her best friend Leah. They have until brunch to find out who it is and who killed them. The first trailer Dead Giveaway It’s out and Cineverse will release Ian Kimble’s horror-comedy digitally on November 3rd.
Brunch reservations are the smartest thing to do. In the bedroom, the body is the situation. A body in a bedroom with a table booked for a few hours is a story with a clock on it, and the clock is what most body disposal comedies forget to bring.
The cast goes deeper than the set-up
Ruby Modine plays Jill. Genre viewers know him as Lori Spengler Happy Death Day And his continuation, and he was regular Shameless. Michaela Hoover, who appeared in the James Gunn film SupermanLia is playing. Susan Toni Petrongolo plays Jill’s roommate Sarah, and the cast also includes Buddy Kane, Jeremy Faith, Jesse Allen Hytner and Andrew Vogel. Modine and Hoover are executive producing the film.
It also stars Scout Taylor-Compton, who plays the woman who played Laurie Strode in Rob Zombie’s. Halloween and Halloween II at the brunch table.
Eleven years in one morning
Kimble has been making the film since 2015, when he shot a 30-minute version over New Year’s weekend. An approximately 67-minute cut followed in 2019 and was screened once at the Philly Independent Film Festival. “I think I spent $15,000 of my own money on it,” he told Moviejawn. The Cineverse released version is 87 minutes long and spans one morning. It was shot in a house during a July heat wave, with the air conditioner turned off every time there was a sound.
It had its world premiere at the 34th Philadelphia Film Festival in October 2025 in the Philadelphia section of the festival dedicated to local cinema. Kimble, who grew up in South Jersey, told the Daily Dead at the time that he had been in Philadelphia for 15 years and didn’t look far for his leaders. “Both of these girls are based on my two older sisters,” she said. “These heroes are the people of Philly.”
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