In the summer of 2017, best-selling writers Chuck 
Wendig (Star Wars novels, Marvel’s Hyperion, Terribleminds blog) and Sam Sykes (Aeons’ Gate Trilogy) began a storytelling Twitter exchange creating a new twist on the summer camp slasher movie. Their story generated more than a million impressions, triggering national press buzz and a social media frenzy among fans (“This movie is horror movie gold!”) who demanded it be made into a movie.
Now the first movie ever made from a Twitter thread, You Might Be the Killer, will premiere at the prestigious Austin Fantastic Fest 2018 on Friday, September 21 at 11:50 p.m.
Directed by Brett Simmons (Husk, Monkey’s Paw, and Animal) and starring Alyson Hannigan (Buffy, How I Met Your Mother), Fran Kranz (Cabin in the Woods), Keith David (The Thing), Brittany S. Hall (Ballers) and Patrick Reginald Walker (The Resident), You Might Be the Killer is the story of Sam (Kranz), a regular guy who finds himself on the run from a masked serial killer who has been brutally murdering his fellow camp counselors.
Desperate, Sam reaches out to his friend Chuck (Hannigan), who is an expert in all things horror. She becomes Sam’s lifeline as he tries to evade death by avoiding common horror tropes and save his friends. But when Chuck challenges everything that Sam tells her, Sam must piece together what is really going on at the camp, as he races to uncover the haunting truth of the masked maniac’s identity and the mask’s supernatural powers… all before it’s too late!
Says Simmons: “This movie has such a unique and original take on a genre I love. It twists and shakes up the campground slasher film we’re all familiar with in a way I haven’t seen before, and couldn’t wait to dive into. Telling a familiar story in an unfamiliar out-of-order fashion through flashbacks allows the audience to piece things together in a fun way – I haven’t seen that before in a slasher movie! And You Might Be the Killer goes even further by asking the audience to identify with a character who might actually be the killer!”
You Might Be the Killer is written by Thomas P. Vitale, Brett Simmons, and Covis Berzoyne, and produced by Griff Furst, p.g.a., and Thomas P. Vitale, p.g.a.
