News Patricia Wants to Cuddle The Genre-Mashing Reality TV Satire Patricia Wants to Cuddle Is Getting a Movie Adaptation It’s not vampires in these Pacific Northwest woods. By Molly Templeton | Published on September 5, 2025 Media: Zando Comment 0 Share New Share Media: Zando “Well, I guess Bigfoot-Lesbian-RomCom-Mystery-Horror is my new favorite genre!” said none other than Lilly Wachowski about Patricia Wants to Cuddle, Samantha Allen’s 2023 novel about the participants in a reality show that gets extra weird when it heads to a remote Pacific Northwest island. It makes a ton of sense that a feature film adaptation of the novel is now in the works; who doesn’t want to watch a queer bigfoot romance that’s also a Bachelor parody? I’d put this on my calendar right now if it had a release date. Sophia Takal (Black Christmas) is set to direct the adaptation; she and Lawrence Michael Levine co-wrote the script. Variety describes the story like so: Patricia Wants to Cuddle follows the final four contestants on a reality TV dating show called The Catch as they arrive on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, prepared for another week of sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and salacious drama. Each has her own reason for joining the show, from brand sponsorships to trying to amass followers to even finding love. However, no one is prepared for Patricia, a misunderstood local living alone in the island’s dense woods. When the cast and crew finally encounter her on the island’s highest peak, they realize that survival, not romance, may be the biggest prize. That’s all well and good, but I prefer the way Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya put it at Autostraddle: … Patricia Wants to Cuddle is a lesbian sasquatch horror-comedy Bachelor parody. Plus final girl slasher vibes. Plus a whole gorgeous epistolary lesbian romance subplot. Plus descriptions of the Pacific Northwest night sky and landscape so simultaneously lovely and haunting you will be torn by wanting to look closer and wanting to look away, which is fitting, because that’s exactly how I feel when watching the best episodes of reality television. In a statement, Takal said, “Patricia Wants to Cuddle offers a unique opportunity to explore the tension between our civilized personas and our wilder, more authentic selves through a horror lens.” I can’t wait to see which actors get to meet Patricia.[end-mark] The post The Genre-Mashing Reality TV Satire <i>Patricia Wants to Cuddle</i> Is Getting a Movie Adaptation appeared first on Reactor.