Holliston Native Set to Star in New Horror Sitcom

FEARnet, a cable channel featuring horror, thriller, and suspense films, videos, trailers, and shorts, has never produced an original series.

Until now.

According to the channel's website, FEARnet has given a six-episode series order for Holliston, a "horror-sitcom" named for the town in which the show is set. The show is the brainchild of accomplished film directors Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2, The Knights of Badassdom) and Adam Green.

Hollistonians might already be familiar with the 36-year-old Green, who is a native son. Horror fans know Green as the director of Hatchet, Hatchet II and Frozen, among other films. His latest venture brings him back, in a way, to his hometown.

According to FEARnet's announcement, the show is an "outrageous and offbeat multi-camera, half-hour buddy comedy series" in which Green and Lynch will play "lesser versions of themselves." The sitcom will follow the lives of "Adam" and "Joe," two recent college graduates who aspire to become horror movie directors. They work at a cable access television station in Boston, where they host a a late-night horror film show called "The Movie Crypt."

Holliston will follow their struggles with women, money and their careers.

"This show has just the right amount of wrong, and you really can't imagine it ever making it on to TV. That's where FEARnet comes in," said FEARnet President Peter Block in the channel's announcement. "Adam came to us with a truly off-the-wall series that was overflowing with a supporting cast of misfits and I-don't-know-whats."

The show is also set to star Laura Ortiz (The Hills Have Eyes, Horton Hears A Who) and Corri English (Unrest, The Bedford Diaries).

Green will write and direct the series, while Green, Lynch and Cory Neal (Hatchet, Frozen) will serve as executive producers. Production, which will begin later this year, will be done by Green's company ArieScope Pictures.

"This is a show built on the memories and real-life experiences of our post-college days, wrapped in a shroud of wrongness, packed full of movie quotes and genre references, and topped off with plenty of jokes at the expense of our real-life friends and industry associates," said Green in FEARnet's announcement.

"No other network would have the guts to make this show; we're pushing the boundaries of television. I mean, what other sitcom on television includes exploding heads and an imaginary alien friend who lives in the closet? We plan to really turn the traditional American sitcom on its head. It's the first horror sitcom. A hor-icom!"

Holliston will become part of FEARnet's "Twisted Comedy" block, a Tuesday night horror-comedy lineup that launched earlier this month. The block features Todd & The Book of Pure Evil, described by FEARnet as "a supernatural high-school comedy featuring Jason Mewes (Mallrats, Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)" and Psychoville, an "award-winning, British black-comedy thriller that centers on a group of characters haunted by a mysterious blackmailer."