Snoop Dogg is going from the dogg house to a haunted house.
Announced back in September, Eli Roth and Snoop Dogg are turning their faux trailer Don’t Go in That House, Bitch! into a feature.
While Snoop was already on board to produce, Roth tells Variety that the hip-hop icon will also star in the horror comedy.
“He’s been wanting to do Death Row Films for a long time,” said Roth. “I said we need to make the ultimate haunted house movie, like the craziest one, something that mixes House, House by the Cemetery, Hausu, and Friday, the 13th, like something so insane people can’t believe it exists. And we have to call it Don’t Go in That House, Bitch!
“And he’s going to star in it.”
Roth continued, “People keep going in the house. People don’t listen. What are you doing, bitch? Don’t go in that house. People just keep going in. Like, what are you doing? You’re not going to come out of there. Don’t do it. Turn around. Leave! It’s basically everything that we yell at the screen during horror movies. You put those as characters in the movie like a Greek chorus.”
Roth said he just completed script over the holidays. Shooting expected to kick off in June with his Horror Section Studios producing.
“We’re budgeting now,” Roth noted. “I’m going to apply for the California tax credit. If I get the tax credit, I want to shoot it in Los Angeles so we can have all L.A. people on it.”
Snoop also is contributing music to Roth’s next film, Ice Cream Man. He wrote a song that the filmmaker hopes to use during the end credits, in addition to composing part of the score.
“He sent me some score — not hip-hop, but actual score. I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is incredible,’” Roth said. “So we have a whole section of the movie that’s completely scored by Snoop.”
Roth and Snoop first collaborated on the rapper’s 2012 “La La La” music video, which Roth directed.
Snoop Dogg’s previously genre roles include Day Shift, Bones, Hood of Horror, Meet the Blacks, and Scary Movie 5.
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