It’s been quite a while since Pete Davidson was on the set of his upcoming horror movie.
Production on “The Home” was underway in New Jersey back in 2022.
More than three years later, the film is set to hit theaters.
Lionsgate recently released the first trailer for the movie, which will be out July 25.
“The Home,” directed by James DeMonaco (“The Purge”) and written by DeMonaco and Adam Cantor, spent $11.7 million filming in New Jersey, the state Economic Development Authority tells NJ Advance Media.
Much of the movie was filmed at the shuttered Saint Francis Residential Community in Denville before the building was set for demolition. The Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, a Franciscan Catholic congregation, opened a health resort at the site in 1895, which later became a senior living facility.
The setting is particularly appropriate, since “The Home” is also set at a senior facility, one where Davidson’s character, Max, starts working after he’s sentenced to community service.
“There’s something very wrong with this place,” a resident tells him in the film’s trailer (watch below). “Something terribly wrong.”
Davidson models some horror fashion on set outside the shuttered Saint Francis Residential Community in Denville in March 2022. James Devaney | GC Images
Max is advised to avoid the fourth floor.
So, of course, he goes there. Jumpscares ensue.
Bruce Altman (“Power Book II: Ghost”) plays Dr. Sabian, a staff member at the facility who ominously tells Max that he has “interesting eyes.” Cut to the part of the trailer where Max is strapped to a table against his will, subject to some kind of horrific procedure involving his eye.
During production in Denville, Staten Island’s Davidson, 31, an alum of “Saturday Night Live,” was photographed drenched in fake blood, giving a peace sign and thumbs up.
Other Jersey filming locations for “The Home” included a private home in Nutley as well as Garret Mountain Reservation, Rifle Camp Park and a Mobil gas station, all in Woodland Park. The movie also filmed at the Madison Hotel between Morristown and Madison and a storefront on Elizabeth Avenue in Elizabeth.
The production received a $4.1 million tax credit.
Davidson also filmed the movies “Riff Raff“ (released in February) and “Dumb Money” (2023) in New Jersey.
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