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WATCH: Shudder’s ‘Horror is Queer’ Panel at Comic-Con@Home
In advance of their queer horror documentary, Shudder hosted a special panel this week as part of San Diego Comic-Con’s Comic-Con@Home titled Horror is Queer, and the results were as entertaining as they were informative.
The panel, moderated by journalist Jordan Crucchiola, brought together Bryan Fuller (Hannibal), Don Mancini (Child’s Play), Lachlan Watson (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Nay Bever (Attack of the Queerwolves podcast), and Sam Wineman (The Quiet Room) to discuss the intersection and the long history of queerness and horror. Wineman is also directing the upcoming documentary from the streaming platform which previously co-produced Horror Noire.
Horror is queer. Horror is teeming with references to “the other,” a label that many in the queer community have come to embrace after having it thrust upon us for so long. What I loved most about this panel, however, is that it brought together members of the community from different backgrounds with different experiences to discuss what horror has meant to them and how it has played a part in their development.
Nay Bever, for example, spoke of growing up in a strict, religious family where breaking the rules meant you were going to hell and how it was little acts of small rebellion such as watching scary movies that helped her find her own strength. Mancini, meanwhile, points to the fact that he grew up gay with an ultra-macho father who could not stand anything to do with queerness and how both consciously and subconsciously, he dealt with that in writing the first Child’s Play film.
It is a rather meaningful look into the lives of horror fans and creatives who exist on the LGBTQ spectrum. We need more panels like this, more discussions of not only where we find ourselves but also how we found our way into horror.
There are those out there, of course, who will talk about this panel and deny the things that are said about certain films and series despite the fact that the panelists are often talking about their own work. I have discovered in 2020 that I have no patience for that kind of reductive rhetoric. Those comments come from a place of fear and denial. Fear of what it means or says about them that they enjoy these films.
To those people, I say watch it anyway. Take in what is being said, and then take time to think about it before you comment. You might manage to learn something in the process.
You can see the full Horror is Queer panel from Comic-Con@Home below and I encourage you all to take 45 minutes out of your day and do so.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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