Dead of Night, a gory small town slasher starring Dermot Mulroney, opened in theatres across the United States and Canada today, timed squarely to Friday the 13th. The film is playing at AMC locations through distributor Level 33 Entertainment, with a digital and on demand release following on January 12, 2027.
Directed by Derek Sulek, who co-wrote the script with Erick Durham, Dead of Night follows Sheriff Weaver (Mulroney) as he races to identify a killer after a teenage girl is found mutilated in his quiet town. As more bodies turn up and paranoia spreads, Weaver’s daughter Kelly, played by Kirrilee Berger, launches her own investigation, convinced something considerably more sinister than a lone murderer is at work. Scott Grimes and Jake Busey round out the cast.
Also among the cast is wrestler Chris Jericho, who serves as an executive producer on the film alongside Grimes. Jericho has spent the past few years building a side career in blood-soaked horror, with credits including Terrifier 2 and Terrifier 3, and a leading role as a murderous cult leader in WolfCop director Lowell Dean’s wrestling-themed horror film Dark Match.
Whether a small town slasher can stand out in an already crowded November field remains to be seen, but a Friday the 13th release date is as fitting a stage as any for a film built around a masked killer stalking a community that cannot stop its own hysteria from spreading faster than the body count.
