Stavros Halkias’ new threwback comedy Let’s Start A Cult arrives next month and features CM Punk, with the first trailer online. Dark Sky Films will released the film in theaters on October 25th, with a wider rollout on November 1st, and you can see the trailer below. The film is directed by Ben Kitnick, who co-wrote the script with Halkias and Wes Haney.
It stars Halkias, Haney, Eric Rahill, Katy Fullan, and Daniel Simonsen with cameos from Ethan Suplee, Joe Pera, Tom Papa, and Punk. The film is described as follows: Having missed out on his cult’s long awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through middle America, the constantly-bickering duo induct a military wannabe, a mentally unstable mom, and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult.
.. but will this family of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny, or decide this life might be worth living after all?.