The duo behind the comedy-horror, 'All My Friends Hate Me' talk drawing from life experiences and writing their first feature film together.
Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton subvert the traditional bumbling Englishman stereotype with a cringe-inducing social anxiety thriller.Imagine this: you’ve just been invited to the country to celebrate your birthday. All of your friends from college will be there and you haven’t seen them in a while—but when you arrive, everyone is acting a little different than how you remembered.
It’s a cringe comedy-horror that ratchets up the anxiety felt by Pete as he repeatedly runs into awkward scenarios, starting with the gang’s invitation of a rakish stranger into Pete’s birthday party, and seems to suffer from the most horrible foot-in-mouth syndrome one would never hope to experience. With references to horror films by Michael Haneke and, the idea for the script started germinating when Stourton attended a wedding between “two old uni mates.
Betrayed by his own brain, Stourton began to bounce ideas off of Palmer about “a friendly environment that feels hostile” riffing until they had something that hinged upon the theme of “the extent to which your own something in your own head could reach the stakes of a horror film.
Palmer and Stourton’s film is now playing in theaters and will be on demand starting March 25, but it first debuted at Tribeca Film Festival in 2020 to positive reviews, with one critic even telling Stourton thatreminded him of something that would’ve been created by “an evil Richard Curtis.” It got a laugh out of the two at the time, but partially because that was, in a way, their intention with the film.
“We wanted this idea that it's like all of the structures and the devices of something quite frothy and friendly and British, but actually just being like, what if this was actually played out as a horror? What if this was played out for real and the comedy wasn't so funny?” Palmer explains. For Stourton, he relished in “a good opportunity to sort of subvert some English stereotyping” with his role as Pete.
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