Bed Rest, starring Scream’s Melissa Barrera, gets July release date

While we wait for the January 14, 2022 theatrical release of the new Scream movie, the film’s star Melissa Barrera and the Scream producers at Project X are already working on a different genre project; their supernatural thriller Bed Rest is currently filming in Winnipeg. This one will be arriving in theatres six months after Scream, as STXfilms has announced (via Deadline) that they’ll be releasing Bed Rest on July 15, 2022.

Screenwriter Lori Evans Taylor is making her feature directorial debut on Bed Rest. Here’s the synopsis:

After years of struggling to start a family, Julie Rivers (Barrera) is pregnant again and moving into a new home with her husband as they embrace a fresh start. Upon being ordered to mandatory bed rest, Julie begins to slowly unravel as she suffers through the monotony and anxiety of her new constraints. Soon, terrifying ghostly experiences in the home begin to close in on Julie, stirring up her past demons and causing others to question her mental stability. Trapped and forced to face her past and the supernatural, Julie fights to protect herself and her unborn baby.

Evans Taylor and Barrera will be earning producing credits on the film alongside Project X’s William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, and Paul Neinstein. BondIt Media Finance is providing the funding. STXfilms has already picked up the worldwide rights. STXfilms will be releasing the film themselves in the US, the UK, and Ireland, and in the rest of the world they’ll release it through their network of foreign distribution partners. Sam Brown, Marisa Moreno, and Alexandria Martin are overseeing the project for the studio.

We recently heard that Lori Evans Taylor is also writing the screenplay for Final Destination 6.

The July 15, 2022 release date puts Bed Rest up against the Sony film Bullet Train, an action thriller directed by David Leitch and starring Brad Pitt, Joey King, Andrew Koji, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, Masi Oka, Michael Shannon, Logan Lerman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Karen Fukuhara, Bad Bunny, and Sandra Bullock. Competing with that movie doesn’t sound like the greatest idea.