Genre regular Josh Stolberg has co-written Jigsaw, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, and the upcoming Saw X, among other credits, and there is definitely some Saw influence on display in the trailer for his TikTok-inspired horror film Skill House, which you can see in the embed above.
Written and directed by Stolberg, Skill House is
a dark satire of social media and influencer culture, exploring how far people will go for online fame.
The movie was filmed at Sway House, a Bel Air mansion made famous by TikTok creators.
Skill House stars Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Power Book II: Ghost), Leah Pipes (Sorority Row), McCarrie McCausland (Army Wives), Ivan Leung (The Tender Bar), Neal McDonough (Yellowstone), John DeLuca (Spree), Caitlin Carmichael (Midnight in the Switchgrass), Dani Oliveros (Roar), Emily Mei (The Download), Jacob Skidmore (Trinkets), TikTok star Hannah Stocking, MMA star Paige VanZant, and TikTok celebrity Bryce Hall.
In addition to acting in the movie, 50 Cent is producing it through his company G-Unit Film & Television. Skill House is also being produced by Alex Baskin, Lifeboat Productions’ Amy Kim and Jaime Burke, and Ryan Kavanaugh’s Proxima Studios. This will be the first project to be listed on Kavanaugh’s Entertainment Stock Exchange site. The ESX is “designed to allow users to invest in film projects and trade in and out of a film’s potential upside.”
Legendary special effects artist Steve Johnson provided the bloodshed for Skill House, and Stolberg reported that one night they shot a kill scene that was so bloody and intense, “the camera operator became so nauseated that he passed out and the camera crashed to the ground”.
Let us know what you thought of the trailer for Skill House by leaving a comment below. Does this look like something you would want to watch? A release date hasn’t been announced yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as that information is revealed.
