News freaky friday Freaky Friday 2 Has a Director‚ Is Really Happening Who’s the crypt keeper now? By Molly Templeton | Published on April 1‚ 2024 icon-comment 0 Share New Share Twitter Facebook Pinterest RSS Feed It has been 21 years since Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan starred in the hugely popular Freaky Friday. The film was Disney’s third adaptation of Mary Rodgers’s 1972 children’s book—and they’re definitely not done with it yet. Curtis and Lohan are “in negotiations” to reunite for Freaky Friday 2‚ which now has a director and is expected to begin filming this summer. The Hollywood Reporter says “in negotiations‚” but Curtis’s Instagram seems pretty certain; she posted a positively adorable picture of herself and Lohan with the caption “DUH! FFDEUX!” Director Nisha Ganatra seems like an excellent choice; she directed a very different (but generally quite charming) pair of women‚ Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling‚ in the comedy Late Night‚ and has directed TV episodes ranging from Mr. Robot to Dear White People to Dollface. It’s not entirely clear who’s writing the film: THR says both that there’s “an early draft from Elyse Hollander” and that there’s a “new script‚ by Jordan Weiss.” According to Entertainment Weekly‚ there may be a new teen in the mix—or two. Lohan’s character reportedly has a 14-year-old daughter‚ Harper‚ who doesn’t care for her mom’s new love interest. Said love interest also has a teenage daughter‚ Lily. The girls don’t get along‚ and when they swap bodies with Curtis and Lohan‚ things get doubly complicated. No release date has been announced‚ but you can expect to get Freaky again in a year or two. [end-mark] The post <;i>;Freaky Friday 2<;/i>; Has a Director‚ Is Really Happening appeared first on Reactor.

News Interview with the Vampire Interview with the Vampire Trailer Sees Louis (and Molloy?) Remembering Monstrous Things Memory can fool you‚ as Louis and Molloy are about to learn By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 1‚ 2024 icon-comment 0 Share New Share Twitter Facebook Pinterest RSS Feed Memory is the monster. That’s the message‚ at least‚ from the latest trailer for the upcoming second season of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. The biggest thing Louis (Jacob Anderson) doesn’t seem to recall from season one‚ is what the heck happened to Claudia (played in season two by Delainey Hayles) as he recounts his life to the reporter Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) while his paramour of seventy years‚ Armand (Assad Zaman) sits supportively(?) by his side. What the latest trailer also suggests‚ however‚ is that Armand is possibly manipulating Louis and the younger vampire’s attempts to recall the past. It also shows that Lestat (Sam Reid) had a continued influence on Louis beyond New Orleans‚ and that Molloy has some recall problems of his own when it comes to his earlier interview with Louis back when he was a young man. Your memory can fool you! And uncovering the truth‚ if the background music in the latest trailer is anything to go on‚ can be a dangerous thing. The trailer also treats us to more glimpses of Claudia and Louis’ time in Paris with the coven of vampire actors there. Want more context as to what we’ll see in the upcoming episodes? Here’s the official synopsis for season two of Interview with the Vampire: In the year 2022‚ the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson) recounts his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Bogosian). Picking up from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 when Louis and teen fledgling Claudia (Hayles) conspired to kill the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Reid)‚ Louis tells of his adventures in Europe‚ a quest to discover Old World Vampires and the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris‚ with Claudia. It is in Paris that Louis first meets the Vampire Armand (Zaman). Their courtship and love affair will prove to have devastating consequences both in the past and in the future‚ and Molloy will probe to get to the truths buried within the memories. AMC’s Interview with the Vampire is created and showrun by Rolin Jones‚ who also executive produces along with Mark Johnson‚ Mark Taylor‚ Christopher Rice‚ and the late Anne Rice. Season two premieres on AMC and AMC+ on May 12‚ 2024. Check out the trailer below. [end-mark] The post <;i>;Interview with the Vampire<;/i>; Trailer Sees Louis (and Molloy?) Remembering Monstrous Things appeared first on Reactor.

Book Recommendations book review An Intellectual Take on Slashers Goes for the Throat: On Stephen Graham Jones’s The Angel of Indian Lake A review of the final book in Stephen Graham Jones’s Indian Lake trilogy By Tobias Carroll | Published on April 1‚ 2024 icon-comment 0 Share New Share Twitter Facebook Pinterest RSS Feed There’s something inherently daunting about writing a trilogy that’s set outright in the horror genre. I’d argue that this has to do with something more pronounced in horror than in most other genres: the element of surprise. More specifically‚ it’s the sense that no one is safe. (Cue Jamie Kennedy shouting‚ “Everyone’s a suspect!” in Scream.) Trilogies—and series more broadly—promise some sense of continuity. (Though that can sometimes be upended. Just ask Ned Stark.) With horror‚ the protagonist might not survive until the last sentence—or they might end up becoming the very monster they’ve opposed. The Angel of Indian Lake is the final volume in Stephen Graham Jones’s Indian Lake trilogy‚ following My Heart is a Chainsaw and Don’t Fear the Reaper. It’s a work of horror‚ both human-scale and supernatural‚ and it also takes more than a few cues from the tropes of slasher films. It’s a bold narrative juggling act‚ a book that’s in dialogue both with its two predecessors and with an entire subgenre of films. Jones has veered into this territory before: one of his earlier novels is titled The Last Final Girl‚ and his novella Night of the Mannequin contained plenty of horror-film imagery.  The Indian Lake novels are different. On paper‚ they might sound at least somewhat similar to Peter Straub’s Blue Rose trilogy; both have plenty of real-life horrors and both incorporate more than a little genre knowledge and metafictional flair. (The third volume in Straub’s trilogy was‚ in fact‚ where I first encountered the concept of metafiction.) But what might look similar on paper is radically different in execution: Graham’s trilogy is in some ways more traditional than Straub’s‚ in that it follows one consistent set of characters over a relatively confined period of times—but it’s also stranger in others.   The antagonists in these books are both human and supernatural‚ for one thing. For another‚ the characters—especially series protagonist Jade Daniels—are aware that they’re in a situation that operates under the rules of the horror genre. What this often means for Jade is attempting to understand which of the people around her fits into the narrative in the role of “final girl”—and how that might lead to some respite from the restless ghosts‚ bloodthirsty killers‚ or abusive relatives around them.  Buy the Book The Angel of Indian Lake Stephen Graham Jones Buy Book icon-close The Angel of Indian Lake Stephen Graham Jones Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget The Angel of Indian Lake is set four years after the events of Don’t Fear the Reaper. Jade‚ who was a high school student when the trilogy began‚ is now teaching at her hometown’s high school—and dealing with the aftermath of her time spent incarcerated following the events of the previous books. Jade’s position as an authority figure brings back memories of Mr. Holmes‚ the teacher who inspired her during her own time as a student—and whose memory is summoned up during some of Jade’s first-person narration. Letha‚ Jade’s friend and a fellow horror aficionado‚ remains off the page for much of the novel‚ which speaks in part to the different paths in life that both women have had. Neither is quite the archetypal “final girl” of countless horror tropes—Jade is Indigenous; Letha is Black—and their paths in life include more than a few other contrasts. Jade is on her own; Letha is married with a child. Letha comes from an affluent family; Jade’s roots are more humble. Slasher films don’t often riff on questions of race‚ gender‚ and class‚ but Jones certainly does in his trilogy. Via the setting of Proofrock‚ Idaho‚ these novels reckon with everything from the bloodier side of the nation’s westward expansion to the ways in which Mountain West states have become destinations for the absurdly wealthy. As in past installments in the trilogy‚ Jones juxtaposes supernatural threats to the town with more mundane examples of the evil that people are capable of. Rexall‚ a friend of Jade’s father with a penchant for voyeurism‚ had been a slow-burning presence in the books until this volume; this time out‚ Jones reveals more about just what makes Rexall tick and what he might do if he became an outright threat‚ as opposed to a leering presence. The results are appropriately unsettling. He’s far from the only threat here‚ though. Jade’s first warning that all might not be well in Proofrock is the return of an object that’s been long unaccounted for. That turns out to be a herald for something much more menacing: the return of several members of the town’s dead‚ now seeking revenge on those who wronged them. It wouldn’t be the conclusion of a trilogy without a few old faces returning for sinister purposes‚ and Jones makes good on that implicit promise as well. Jones has given himself a difficult narrative juggling act here—one where these books need to work as‚ effectively‚ slasher films in literary form while also acting as a kind of meta-narrative meditation on slasher tropes and archetypes. What’s miraculous here is that he pulls it off. It doesn’t hurt that The Angel of Indian Lake features a structure that alternates Jade’s first-person narration with a series of found documents by an author who turns out to be connected to one of the trilogy’s most interesting character arcs.  The Angel of Indian Lake is a dense and at times dizzying read‚ and one that juxtaposes several varieties of horror together to make one especially potent narrative. It’s the literary equivalent of a garage rock recording that also turns out to be gloriously baroque‚ and accomplishes the trick of holding a mirror up to the horror genre’s history while also reading like little else you’ll encounter. [end-mark] The Angel of Indian Lake is published by Saga Press. 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