First of all the core creative team are culled from Chicago's thriving improv comedy scene. Which means that they're naturally funny people who understand a thing or two about performance.
Second? They also had the good sense to call in a ringer in the form of the iconic Robert Englund. Yep, while Hollywood's been busy with a big budget remake of the franchise Englund made, Englund himself has been hanging out in Chicago goofing around with a bunch of improv geeks.
Synopsis!
Marion and Jarmon Mugg have never had to work very hard. They've never had much responsibility, and no one has ever put any expectations on them to perform or achieve, well... anything.
But two years ago their mother died, leaving them the brownstone apartment building that has been in the family since its days as a speakeasy during Prohibition. In that short time, their slacker ways have run the building into the ground. The tenants are moving out, no one but them and their friends drinks at the bar on the ground floor, and the building's pets are going missing. If all that isn't enough to make them sit up and take notice, there's also a good chance that a monster is living in the basement.
"The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue" is a horror/ comedy that explores what happens when a terrible situation is dropped into the laps of the two people least equipped to deal with it. The Brothers Mugg can either step up to the plate and finally grow up, or they can wait and clean up the mess as a mysterious creature eats every living thing in the building, one by one.
The budget limitations are obvious in the trailer but it looks like a good time anyway.