19 August 2024
The full two-part special will be released exclusively on Prime Video on October 8.
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CULVER CITY, Calif. – August 19, 2024 – Today, Prime Video announced it has ordered the new deliciously bloody baking competition show. Killer CakeThe premiere date on Thursday, October 8th, has also been announced and the first images are available. The complete two-part special will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and regions worldwide.
From horror visionaries Blumhouse Television and Cake Boss creators High Noon Entertainment, Killer Cake is a one-of-a-kind competition show where bakers with terrifying skills attempt to win some of the most terrifying challenges ever produced for television. Contestants will work with Hollywood’s best horror special effects artists to let their wacky imaginations run wild and bake cakes so gross, so disturbing and so realistic, they’re the stuff of nightmares.
Killer Cake is hosted by horror veteran Matthew Lillard (Scream, Five Nights at Freddy’s) with the expert jury, Scream Queen Danielle Harris (Halloween Franchise) and the experimental food artist and cookbook author Nikk Alcaraz (Strange Baking).
Participants include:
Amanda Yother: Rathdrum, ID
Dillon Barlow: Houston, TX
Dziedra “Z” Brusberg: Marysville, WA
Deadra “Dee” Compean: Beaumont, TX
Eszter Summerlin: Gulf Breeze, FL
Jesse Lesser: Dallas, TX
Mark Lie: Chicago, Illinois
Shanelle Long: Pensacola, FL
Ruth Amsel serves as showrunner for the two-part special, and executive producers are Jason Blum and Gretchen Palek for Blumhouse Television and Scott Feely for High Noon Entertainment. In addition to hosting, Lillard also serves as executive producer. Killer Cake is produced by Blumhouse Television, ITV America’s High Noon Entertainment and Amazon MGM Studios.
About Prime Video
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ABOUT BLUMHOUSE TELEVISION:
Blumhouse Television has received much praise and numerous awards for its dark, offbeat films, including the Emmy® Awards for his productions from HBOs The normal heartAnd The Jinxand the prestigious Peabody Award for The Jinx and the documentary How to Dance in Ohio. Blumhouse produces provocative scripted and unscripted television series and documentaries, including the upcoming original series The Sticky Oneproduced by Jamie Lee Curtis for Prime Video; The Servantstarring Kevin Bacon and from creator Grainger David and showrunner Erik Oleson, also for Prime Video; The worst roommate ever, And The worst ex ever for Netflix, which launched Blumhouse Television’s first franchise. Blumhouse Television was founded as an independent studio in 2017 with funding from ITV. Projects since the studio’s inception include Golden Globe® and Emmy® nominated HBO miniseries Sharp objects; Golden Globe®Critics’ Choice® and Writers Guild® Award-nominated Showtime miniseries The loudest voice; the Showtime limited series The good Mr. Vogel starring and executive produced by Ethan Hawke and based on the award-winning novel by James McBride. The studio produced The Cleansing on the USA Network from writer/director/producer James DeMonaco and based on the popular film series; the holiday-themed anthology event series Into the Dark for Hulu; and anthology series Holy Lies created by Emmy® Nominee Raelle Tucker. The studio has developed award-winning and critically acclaimed documentaries, including A secret love produced with Ryan Murphy for Netflix; Keep praying an official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival; Pharma Bro an official selection of the Hot Docs Festival, Writers Guild Award® winner Bathtubs over Broadway And Winner of the 2018 Sundance Audience Award This is Home. Blumhouse Television is the latest project from Jason Blum, founder of Blumhouse Productions, known for its groundbreaking model of producing high-quality micro-budget films, including The Cleansing, Exit, The Invisible And Halloween.
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