Award-winning music video and features director Paul Boyd’s (I, Challenger, We Are Gathered Here Today) horror-comedy Scared to Death arrives in theaters this Friday, March 13, distributed by Atlas Distribution Company.
The film stars Lin Shaye, Bill Moseley, Olivier Paris, Victoria Konefal, B.J. Minor, Jade Chynoweth, Rae Dawn Chong, Lucinda Jenney, and Kurt Deimer. It held its world premiere at Popcorn Frights Film Festival and later screened internationally at FrightFest Glasgow, earning warm reviews, with FilmHounds describing it as a “fun-filled screamfest,” and The Hollywood News calling it “a solid comedy horror that is sure to put a smile on the faces of its audience.”
Blending horror, humor, and moments of emotional vulnerability, Scared to Death follows a group of filmmakers who attend a séance at an abandoned children’s orphanage while researching a horror project of their own. Before long, a series of increasingly strange and unsettling events begin to unfold.
Scared to Death will open in limited theaters across the United States on March 13, 2026. In anticipation of the release, CinemaChords sat down with Lin Shaye to discuss the film’s sharp pastiche of on-set power dynamics, balancing more vulnerable moments with its broader horror-comedy tone, and approaching the genre blend in a way that allows the humor to land without undercutting the film’s scares.
