Judd Apatow produced, Bill Hader written Slasher Movie?

Judd Apatow favourite Bill Hader (he often plays the supporting goofball) has co-wrote a horror movie with Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich which is set out to do what Wes Craven did with SCREAM, and to a further extent what recent horror's THE STRANGERS, VACANCY and FUNNY GAMES have done. What happens when the horror happens to you, when the serial killer tracks you down? Hader told CHUD...

'I don't know if it's even going to get made,' Hader told me. 'Judd met with us and said "I want to do a horror movie with you. I want to see you in a slasher movie."' 'It's partially Straw Dogs meets Halloween meets Home Alone meets Monster Squad.' 'It is definitely about guys nowadays, that idea that you watch fucked up shit on TV, how violence in our culture - this sounds really hoity toity - you watch fucked up reality shows, I love true crime shows. The idea of that thing coming to your house, and what do you do? I would shit my pants. That's basically what the movie is about. What if that guy decided to come to your house? What would you and your dipshit friends do about it?'
Unless it's really bad, I can see Judd going with this. After all, he did greenlight DRILLBIT TAYLOR and some of the other projects with his name attached which he hasn't directed have been far from spectacular. Love the genre... hate to see what has come of it lately. Though I am desperate to catch MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D but I just wish it had the balls to go up against FRIDAY THE 13TH and we would have truly seen horror rule the Valentine's Day season!
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