Once a horror-movie cop, always a horror movie cop?

Probably not, but shortly after taking the job of murder-magnet Sydney Prescott’s cop husband in Scream 7, Joel McHale is sticking with the job title and the genre for a role in a new horror movie from his former The Soup producer/director Dan Riesser.

In Junkyard, “Sam (Jade Pettyjohn, All My Friends are Dead, Monster), a strong-willed young woman who trespasses into a secluded scrap yard alongside her misfit friends, in search of something she’s lost. Soon, the friends find themselves trapped in a deadly fight for survival against a pack of bloodthirsty, well-trained guard dogs commanded by the mysterious junkyard owner (George Lopez, Blue Beetle). McHale plays a corrupt sheriff who shows up and turns the dangerous situation into something far worse,” according to the film’s official description.

McHale, who also starred in the TV series Animal Control and Community, hosted the E! Entertainment show The Soup, which made sport of clips from talk shows and reality series, from 2004-2015. Riesser was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the show during that time period.

Riesser, who previously co-wrote and directed Stomping Ground, about a hunt for Bigfoot, will direct from a script co-written with Mike L. Kinshella.

Production on Junkyard should begin in Atlanta next year in the spring of next year. No release date or other casting information has been released yet.