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‘Mental Health and Horror’: Upcoming Documentary Will Explore the Positive Impact Horror Movies Can Have
While horror terrifies and repels some, it brings comfort to others, and the upcoming documentary Mental Health and Horror will explore the genre through the lens of those whose mental health has been improved via their consumption of all things mad and macabre.
Announced by Fangoria this week, the feature length documentary is being directed by Bloody Disgusting alum Jonathan Barkan, with executive producers including Andrew Hawkins (Insect, In Search of Darkness) and David Lawson Jr. (Spring, The Endless, Synchronic), with BD contributor Alice Collins (Fountaine and the Vengeful Nun Who Wouldn’t Die), Zena Dixon (co-host of the Bloody-Disgusting Podcast), and BJ Colangelo (Labrys, Deathcember) as producers.
Mental Health and Horror is being billed as “a feature-length documentary about the positive impacts and cathartic releases that horror can have on those living with mental illnesses.”
The documentary “will feature interviews from horror fans, film critics, film historians, filmmakers, producers, writers, and professionals from the mental health world.”
The project is going to be partially funded through Kickstarter beginning on June 23, and production is already underway. A Q1 2022 world premiere is planned at this time.
Head over to Fangoria to learn more.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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