The 35-year-old is on a nationwide bus tour to spread the word about the movie, a bloody political satire about a serial killer with a thing for concert-going hippies. He’s chronicling the trip on the movie’s MySpace page with little films of assorted silliness.

But there’s clearly a more serious side inside Arquette, too. The “Scream” star has been expanding his artistic boundaries for the past year. He directed an episode of “Medium,” the CBS drama starring his sister, Patricia Arquette. He executive produced several episodes of “Dirt,” the FX show that stars his wife, Courteney Cox. He plays a leading role in the TV pilot “In Case of Emergency” and even started a rock band. Plus he’s Dad to nearly 3-year-old Coco.

The story is a group of drugged-out hippies go to an outdoor music festival and they get attacked by a killer who’s obsessed with Ronald Reagan. . . . I was at a concert in Northern California that was called Reggae on the River but now it’s called Reggae Rising and I’m sitting there and the stars are out, the sun went down and it’s dark. We’re surrounded by redwood trees and the redwood trees are always so creepy anyway. And I thought it would be crazy if a madman came out of the woods and started hacking up all these hippies.

I grew up in Los Angeles when Reagan was governor and then president. I remember distinctly the day I went outside and saw homeless people, you know, mad people everywhere. You’d see a drunk once in a while but this was a whole different thing and I didn’t really understand it. We were really kind of taken aback. My mother explained to me that Reagan had made some cuts in mental health and that’s why a lot of these people were out there. That started the wheels turning in my head and I knew I wanted to make a statement about that at some point.

The boundaries in a horror film are completely out there. You can . . . scare people by using violence and sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in a way that you can’t in a lot of other genres. It has a really loyal fan base, so I specifically wrote the script with that in mind. I learned a lot watching Wes Craven on the “Scream” sets and . . . I wanted to make a film that makes people laugh and the next second makes them jump out of their seats.

It’s amazing working with my family. That’s the funnest part. Even though we live in the same city, a lot of time it’s hard to see each other. So when you can work together you spend so much more time with each other. As far as Coquette goes, the company my wife and I started, it’s always great working with her. She’s just my favorite person, a wonderful partner. She brings so much to the table creatively and from a business mind as well. She’s incredibly supportive and also she’s a real leader. She knows how to get things done and cut through things.

I own a chicken costume. I own Elvis costumes through the roof. It’s just an obsession at this point. I love costumes, I think it goes back to my grandfather. He played a character called Charley Weaver and he had all these costumes. We always had a costume closet when we were growing up and I think it had a lasting effect on me.

“Balls of Fury,” a comedy directed by Ben Garant of “Reno: 911!,” takes us to a world we’d never contemplated: an underground ping-pong tournaments where an FBI agent is on the trail of a murderer played by Christopher Walken. … “The Condemned” mixes “Rollerball” with reality TV in this actioner about an American (wrestling pro “Stone Cold” Steve Austin) who’s sprung from a Central American prison only to find himself an involuntary gladiator for Internet viewers. … “Jindabyne,” an Australian psychodrama inspired by a Raymond Carver short story, examines issues of guilt and honesty when a husband (Gabriel Byrne) hides crucial information about a murdered woman from his wife (Laura Linney).

PBS’ “American Experience” takes you on a trip to 1967 for “Summer of Love,” a groovy, mind-expanding flashback to a cultural phenomenon full of lofty ideals, but also broken dreams.

The place was San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, where, that summer, thousands of young people from across the country came together to this sudden hippie mecca. But even before they got there, this happening was already on the wane – and the swollen population jamming sidewalks, parks, soup kitchens and health clinics only hastened its demise.

Filmmakers Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco examine the social and cultural forces that sparked the largest migration of young people in America’s history. “Summer of Love” airs Monday at 9 p.m.

The senseless death of a man’s wife and daughter sparks a craving for revenge against the reckless driver who was at fault. But then Bruce Murakami forges an unlikely alliance with 17-year-old Justin Gutierrez, who had been part of a street-racing incident that tragic night in November 1998. Teamed up, they begin speaking at high-school assemblies, delivering a powerful message. Dean Cain stars as Murakami in “Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness,” a “Hallmark Hall of Fame” film based on a true story airing today at 9 p.m. on CBS.

“The Real Wedding Crashers” is a new reality series that inflicts a “crash team” of five improvisational performers who go undercover as wedding staffers and guests to liven up a wedding. It premieres Monday at 10 p.m. on NBC.

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