Giancarlo Esposito has signed on to a horror comedy called Weird Party, and the film has already finished shooting.
Deadline broke the casting on September 9, with Dread Central carrying the wider cast list the same day. Esposito is joined by Jinkx Monsoon and Debra Wilson, and the film is the feature directing debut of Brandon Rogers, who also wrote it and appears in it. Plot details are being kept quiet, which for a first feature usually means there is a reveal somebody wants to protect.
Who Else Is in It
Per Dread Central, the rest of the cast runs to Jude B. Lanston, Gary Nohealii, Chad Damiani, Monica Franco, Lyle Rath, Johnnie Guilbert, Brandon Keith Rogers, Monique Parent, Paulette Jones and Syd Smith. David Sigurani produces under the Brandon Bored banner. No distributor and no release date have been announced.
Sigurani is the detail worth pausing on. His credits include The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, the horror-drag competition series that has spent a decade turning grotesquerie into a format. Put that producer next to a two-time Drag Race winner and a YouTube absurdist, and the cast stops looking random.
Where You Know Them From
Esposito has quietly built a real horror shelf. He was Lambert in Radio Silence’s Abigail and Teddy Knight in Ti West‘s MaXXXine, both in 2024, and long before either he was Hypnos in Monkeybone. He is very good at playing men who are calm while everyone else is not, which is a useful setting for a horror comedy.
Debra Wilson is the genre veteran of the three, and the trades tend to file her under MADtv, where she was the longest-serving original cast member across eight seasons. The more relevant résumé is the one built out of voices: demons in The Nun, Monster Sarah in Cobweb, and Savathun, the Hive god of lies, across Destiny 2. She has spent years being the thing in the dark, usually without her own face attached. Casting her on camera in a horror comedy is a good use of that.
Jinkx Monsoon won RuPaul’s Drag Race and then won it again on All Stars, and genre audiences met her in 2024 as the Maestro, the reality-bending musical villain of Doctor Who. She is the one member of this cast who has already proved she can play big and stylised without tipping into camp for its own sake, which is the exact tightrope a horror comedy walks.
Brandon Rogers has been running a sketch channel since 2006 that now sits north of seven million subscribers, and voice audiences know him as Blitzo on Helluva Boss and Katie Killjoy on Hazbin Hotel. This is his first time directing a feature.
What Is Not Known Yet
Almost everything. There is no logline, no footage, no title treatment, no buyer. The shoot is finished, which puts the film in the stretch where a festival premiere is the usual next move, but nobody involved has said so and it would be a guess to claim otherwise.
What is on the record is a cast list, and it is a strange one in the way that tends to pay off. A Breaking Bad heavy with two 2024 horror credits, a drag performer who has already played a Doctor Who villain, and a woman who has spent a decade voicing monsters and gods, all directed by a man best known for a YouTube character named Blitzo. That is not a package a studio assembles. That is somebody’s specific idea.
