A star from Hallmark is tackling a new project soon that will be quite different from what fans have seen her do before. Tiera Skovbye will head to the big screen to lead “ScareBNB.”
Skovbye previously starred in Hallmark’s show “Ride” and had a guest arc on season 12 of “When Calls the Heart.”
Tiera Skovbye to Star in ‘ScareBNB’
Deadline announced the news regarding Skovbye’s next project on September 2. The upcoming movie will also star “Yellowjackets” alum Kevin Alves. Filming will begin soon in British Columbia, Canada.
Director AJ Lutsky told Deadline, “When fear gives way to humor, it creates this incredible vulnerable space where we can think and reflect without realizing we are doing it. That’s the key to this film.”
Executive producer Todd Slater added that “ScareBNB” will take “classic tropes and [flip] them on their head,” giving viewers “a perfectly balanced slasher film with fun action and dark comedy.” He suggested that it will be “exactly the kind of smart, elevated concept that’s both commercially viable and creatively fresh.”
The plot of “ScareBNB” revolves around a quartet of friends from college who travel to a remote cabin for a vacation together. Deadline teased, “What starts as a seemingly idyllic getaway spirals into chaos when they find themselves being hunted by two psychotic attackers.”
Taking the horror a step further, the movie’s description teases, is that the “real shock comes as the friends discover the motive and mastermind behind their twisted terror trip.”
The Hallmark Alum Also Starred on ‘Riverdale’
In addition to appearing in five episodes of “When Calls the Heart” as well as Hallmark’s “Ride,” Skovbye has appeared in “Riverdale,” “Nurses,” “Dirty John,” and “Once Upon a Time.” The Canadian native, 30, began acting when she was 7 years old, noted KidzWorld.
Alves, who is also a native of Canada, also appeared in a handful of episodes of “Locke & Key,” “Shadowhunters,” and “Degrassi: The Next Generation.”
The movie is the first project for Double Phifer Media Inc. The production company shared the announcement regarding Skovbye and Alves on their Instagram page and noted they were “proud” to announce they have “gone to camera” for the movie. “You are in for a wild ride folks!”
Skovbye is not the first star to go from Hallmark to the horror-movie realm. Alicia Witt, who starred in Hallmark’s “Christmas Tree Lane,” filmed “Longlegs” with Blair Underwood and Nicolas Cage in 2023.
