Director James DeMonaco Teases Pete Davidson’s ‘Heavy Horror’ Movie

The Purge director James DeMonaco has finally opened up about his upcoming next directorial project with Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson titled The Home. Speaking with Collider, DeMonaco described The Home as a “heavy horror” movie which will see Davidson playing a graffiti artist who has been sentenced to do community service at a mysterious retirement home. The Bupkis star has been attached to lead the project for more than a year now.

“Not to give too much away, but it’s about him. He’s a graffiti artist. He gets in trouble with the law and his community service instead of doing jail time, he has to live and become the new super at an old age home,” DeMonaco said. “So it’s about older generations dealing with the youth in America. Obviously then it kicks into heavy horror and some crazy mythology about what these people are and who they are and what they’re doing in this home, how that affects the youth of America.”

What is The Home about?

The Home will see Davidson portraying a troubled man named Max, “who starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets,” reads the synopsis. “As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.”

The film is directed by James De Monaco from a screenplay he co-wrote with Adam Candor. DeMonaco, Candor, Miramax’s Bill Block and Sebastian K. Lemercier are also serving as producers.

Davidson is no stranger to the horror genre as he 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. He will next be seen in Sony Pictures’ Dumb Money and David Michod’s Wizards!