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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick make horror comedy with their family
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick made Family Movie with their two children, Travis and Sosie.
The film had its European premiere at the Sitges festival.
The idea came during the pandemic, when the family wondered if they could make a movie at home.
They brought in a screenwriter to shape their ideas.
Family Movie is a horror comedy about a struggling filmmaker who mortgages his farm to make one last film there.
Sedgwick plays his wife and leading actor, while their children play the filmmaker’s grown children.
The film celebrates horror and people who make movies without focusing on money or giving up after failure.
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick made the horror comedy Family Movie with contributions from their two children.
The film grew out of an idea Bacon had during the pandemic about making a movie at home.
Bacon and Sedgwick also star as a filmmaker and his wife, with their children playing the couple’s children.
Family Movie pays tribute to horror films and to people who make films without focusing on money or being stopped by failure.
The film had its European premiere at the Sitges festival.
- Who
- Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick made the film with contributions from their children, Travis and Sosie.
- What
- They made Family Movie, a horror comedy about a filmmaker trying to make a film.
- When
- The idea came to Bacon when the pandemic began. The film had its European premiere on the Saturday before the article was published.
- Where
- The family developed the film at their farm in Connecticut. Its European premiere was at the Sitges festival.
- Why
- Bacon wondered whether they could make a film at home if they could not work elsewhere. The film is also a tribute to horror cinema.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
When the pandemic began, I thought: What if we never work outside again? Would we be able to make a film at home?
We accepted that we would make it for very little money, without great financial ambitions and without taking ourselves seriously.
I never read reviews of my work, although it’s true that I read reviews of other films [laughs].
Yes, the damn algorithm follows you on social media and the internet. It looks for you and jumps out at you.
Bacon came up with the idea of making a film at home.
Bacon and Sedgwick developed the film with contributions from their children.
Family Movie had its European premiere at the Sitges festival.
- Film
- Family Movie
- Filmmakers
- Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick
- Children
- Travis and Sosie
- Setting for development
- The family’s farm in Connecticut
- European premiere
- Sitges festival, on the Saturday before publication
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