Via Defamer comes news of a feature film shooting this month in Long Island. It’s called Reality Horror Night, and the cast includes Destiney Moore, Erik Chopin, Paul Grassi, Billy Garcia, Frenchy and Ty White. Perhaps you don’t recognize any of those names, but you may have at least passing familiarity with some of the TV shows that brought them whatever fame they possess: VH1 Rock of Love, The Biggest Loser, The Mole, Survivor and The Amazing Race.

The premise, according to this press release: the reality stars “are invited to participate in a new TV Show where the prize is $1,000,000. Before the first contestant is voted off, a ‘freakish accident’ happens, and they meet their demise. When the second and third guest ‘bite the dust’ our contestants discover that they are not only playing for $1,000,000 but playing for their lives. This light-comedy, light-horror, suspenseful film ponders the question..."Would you kill for $1,000,000?" Little do our Reality Stars know that this night might be considered a scam, a scam for their lives.”

“Light-horror” suggests these folks won’t meet with especially gruesome ends, which is a shame – although I must admit the only one I could pick out of a lineup is Garcia, who I recall as the heavy metal Survivor who embarrassed himself and a nation by confessing his love for another contestant from a rival tribe. Actually, that’s not true – there’s another familiar name in the cast: Joseph Gannascoli, who has been selected for his work on Celebrity Fit Club. However, you may know him better as enormous closeted mobster Vito from The Sopranos. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

If this all sounds familiar, you might be thinking of Kill Reality, a 2005 E! series in which various Survivor and Real World veterans convened to make a horror movie called The Scorned. If anyone remembers that show at all, it’s probably for the rampant sexcapades amongst the cast or the infamous episode in which Johnny Fairplay was removed from the proceedings for defecating on another cast member’s pillow. Or, as an astute Defamer commenter noted, you may be thinking of Series 7: The Contenders, an indie film I reviewed way back when. Or maybe even The Running Man…which is apparently slated for a remake. As Defamer is fond of noting, The End of Ideas is nigh.

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