Bo Zenga is to make his directorial debut with horror spoof Stan Helsing.

Zenga, one of the producers of the Scary Movie franchise, will send up six of the highest-grossing creature features of all time in the movie.

The Stone Village Pictures production follows a video store clerk as he reluctantly attempts to rescue a town from cinema's most notorious predators on Halloween night.

Zenga said: “Stan Helsing spoofs the six biggest movie monster franchises of all time, which collectively have grossed over $1 billion worldwide. We expect to take a healthy bite of that number.”

He has also written the script for the film, which is scheduled to start principal photography in April.