Lexi Underwood, Case Walker & Kat Cunning Starring In Horror-Comedy ‘Bad Karaoke'
EXCLUSIVE: Lexi Underwood (Cruel Summer), Case Walker (The Other Two) and Kat Cunning (Purple Hearts) have signed on to star in the feature film Bad Karaoke, a horror comedy from District 78 Films and Father Greg Productions. Shooting begins this month in LA.
The film follows a group of friends in a cover band making their way from Portland, Oregon, to perform at a wedding in Napa. When they discover an abandoned karaoke machine in the back of a dive bar, songwriter Emily (Underwood), bassist Noah (Walker), and their motley band crew must find a way to defeat the cursed machine before it finishes them all off.
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Cunning plays the band's lead singer Hannah, who has come to terms with their career as a cover band musician only to learn it might become the death of them.
Chris Lightbody and Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. are directing from a script by Lightbody and Spencer Yaras. Producing are Yaras, Adam Bradshaw and Brendan Petrizzo. Emma Fleming cast the film.
District 78 is made up of Lightbody, Steinmiller and Yaras, who produced 2023 mockumentary Bootyology (Gravitas Ventures) and are best known for their work as music producers and music directors for TV's Dancing With The Stars, The Masked Singer, and So You Think You Can Dance, amongst others.
Underwood broke out on the Hulu limited series Little Fires Everywhere. She went on to play Malia Obama in Showtime's limited series The First Lady before joining the cast of Freeform's Cruel Summer. Actor and singer Walker starred in the Emmy-nominated series The Other Two and Nickelodeon's Monster High franchise. Cunning is known for HBO Max's Rap Sh!t, Netflix movie Purple Hearts and series Trinkets and HBO's The Deuce.
Fleming recently cast the film I Really Love My Husband, which premiered at SXSW this past weekend.
Yaras said: 'We knew we wanted to do something that paid tribute to our love of horror comedies as well as music, so we thought 'what if karaoke killed you?'' Lightbody added: 'Which happens a lot, actually.'
Underwood is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Jackoway Austen. Walker is repped by Innovative Artists, Elysian Heights, and Skrzyniarz & Mallean. Cunning is repped by Innovative Artists and Untitled.
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