The project was announced in November 2022, when Deadline Hollywood revealed that the Bloomquist brothers under the production of the Mainframe Pictures company had developed a film titled Founders Days.

[2] Additional, it was announced that the main cast of the film was made up of Devin Druid, Emilia McCarthy, Amy Hargreaves, Catherine Curtin, William Russ, Naomi Grace, Olivia Nikkanen and among others.

The website's consensus reads: "Founders Day brings a few clever bits to bear on its '80s-inspired slasher story, but its scattershot tone and an overreliance on horror clichés prevent it from leaving much of an impression.

[8] Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote: "Siblings Erik and Carson Bloomquist's latest has surface polish, but the intended mix of current-events satire and horror doesn't quite gel.

"[9] Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com gave the film 1.5/5 stars, writing: "A couple of pedal-to-the-floor melodramatic twists suggest that Founders Days might've been a bolder or just meaner genre movie, but its toothless satire, like its timid horror drama, sadly doesn't cut it.