Professionals in the used car sales industry often don't generate sympathy, at least under traditional pop culture depictions. But how would you feel if a one ended up framed for murder and had to deal with supernatural forces? You'll need to watch the upcoming scare film Covet, a unique horror film with some truly inspired casting.
Two Horror Icons Team Up
Covet is guaranteed to draw interest from horror fans as the film features a new cinematic team-up with Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley. Hodder will play the trouble-plagued car salesman trying to prove he didn't murder his mistress. Moseley will appear as Sheriff Troy, but it is unclear whether he'll play a skeptical law enforcement officer, akin to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993), or a menacing misfit, similar to R. Lee Ermey's Charlie Hewitt from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006).
Details about the film are sparse, as the trades only recently announced the project. The film is the second feature from director Brian McQuery, who previously helmed Plea (2024) with genre fan favorite Heather Langenkamp. McQuery also wrote the two features and has an extensive background as a first and second assistant director.
A Horror Duet Legacy
Covet is not the first collaboration between Moseley and Hodder. Technically, their first "duet" film was Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects (2005), in which Moseley starred and Hodder served as stunt coordinator, also making a cameo appearance. They appeared together in several other films, including the creepy Australian outing Charlie's Farm (2014), which preceded Old 37 (2015), where they played a brother duo of fake (and psychotic) paramedics. Another project, Shed of the Dead (2019), took them to the United Kingdom, blending horror and comedy, while Hayride to Hell (2024) brought them back to Australia for a revenge tale. Almost Mercy (2015), Smothered (2016), They Turned Us Into Killers (2019), and the 2015 short The Devil Dogs of Kilo County Officers Club round out their collective duets.
The intriguing and innovative concept of Covet makes it an indie horror film that fans of the genre will eagerly anticipate. The presence of two horror icons certainly increases the film's appeal. Horror has a solid history of legendary names appearing in the same movie, such as Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in The Black Cat (1934) and Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing's first joint effort, the international success, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). Will we see more Moseley/Hodder team-ups after Covet? Why wouldn't we?