Kevin Bacon's New Horror Movie With Stellar Rotten Tomatoes Score Gets 2027 Release Date
mpi099/MediaPunch/INSTARimagesMoviemaking is family business for Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.
The long-time couple has of course appeared together on the big screen many times over the years, most notably in 1995’s Murder in the First, for which Bacon won the Critics Choice award for Best Actor. The Hollywood power-pair are now taking their collaboration into uncharted territory, not just starring together in a new horror film, but co-directing as well, with two of their children in the cast. Having debuted at SXSW, the Bacon brood’s Family Movie is already a hit with critics, claiming a 93% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes on 14 reviews.
Now the critic-approved all-Bacon horror outing is headed out to audiences, securing a release date of April 23, 2027 (via Deadline). A full theatrical window is set for the meta-slasher film.
“The entire process of making Family Movie has been a true labor of love and after seeing the audience reactions at multiple film festivals around the world, we knew this movie had to be experienced in the theater,” Bacon and Sedgwick said in a statement. “While we considered traditional distribution options, we decided to put our faith in our film, the audience, and the evolving landscape of independent film and go straight to the theaters with this fun crowd pleaser.”
The co-directing pair’s meta-horror exercise, “follows a filmmaking family, the Smiths, and their low-budget horror movie which turns into a real-life slasher when a dead body shows up on set. Chaos ensues as the Smiths fight to keep the production on track.” Travis Bacon and Sosie Bacon join their parents in the Family Movie cast, along with Liza Koshy, John Carroll Lynch, Jackie Earle Haley, Andrea Savage, Austin Amelio, and Scoot McNairy.
93% fresh is indeed a solid RT score, but one dissenting perspective on Bacon and Sedgwick’s effort comes from ScreenRant, whose March 2026 Family Movie review found much to quibble with before landing largely on the negative side. “Much of the humor in Family Movie doesn't totally work, because it is neither gruesome nor absurd enough to register in either direction,” the review says.
“It's a placid movie that tries to make a meal out of its extraordinary situations, but everyone is acting pretty casual about the mounting bodies and looming threat of going to jail,” the article continues. “Family Movie needed a lot more massaging to work properly, but as it is, it feels stiff, sputtering toward its ending and never finding a groove long enough to kill.”