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Bella Thorne Owns a Life-Sized Babadook, Would Love to Direct “American Horror Story” [Boo Crew Podcast]
Bella Thorne has become a big name amongst the horror crowd and it’s by design as the actress is also a huge fan herself.
After appearing in MTV’s “Scream” series, she went on to star in Keep Watching, Amityville: The Awakening, Assassination Nation, I Still See You, and of course, The Babysitter films.
Next up is the home invasion thriller Masquerade, available On Digital, On Demand & In Select Theaters July 30th from Shout! Studios.
In speaking with Bloody Disgusting’s The Boo Crew Podcast, Bella revealed that she’s a life-long horror fan who never watched Disney movies growing up. Sam Raimi’s The Grudge remake was the first movie to scare her: “It’s the first one that really, really stayed with me,” she explained, noting that she had to sleep with family members after.
“Horror is a way of life,” she adds. “Everything in horror movies that you feel – the physicality, the anxiety, the edge of your seat – all those emotions you feel in life.”
While she’s in the dark on the potential of a third Babysitter – “I don’t know maybe they’re cutting me out of it,” she jokes – Thorne reveals ambitions to get behind the camera on Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story”.
“I love Ryan Murphy and he was really, really, really pioneering, in general, horrific tv. Ryan Murphy changed the idea that horror can really be in tv – that you can watch it week after week, binge in a series, you can watch 20 hours of horror in one sitting and it be normal,” Thorne explains. “There were not a really lot of shows that did that…I think that really helped the horror genre in general.”
In regards to being a huge horror fan, she tells Boo Crew that The Strangers is one of her all-time favorites and also reveals that she has a life-sized Babadook in her house!
“I love The Babadook – I actually have a life-sized Babadook in my house,” explains Bella. “For a long time we had it in the bathroom and it was behind the door so that whenever anybody would open the door it would hit the Babadook, so then it would look like it was moving and shaking.” She continues, joking: “Everyone was so terrorized by that Babadook in the bathroom.”
Listen to the episode with the multi-award-winning actor, best-selling author, billboard charting singer, writer/director, entrepreneur and pop culture icon below!
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An eccentric poodle breeder is the villain in the upcoming horror movie Breeder, and Variety reports that Independent Film Company and Shudder have acquired the film.
Breeder is the feature debut of director Alex Goyette.
Variety details, “The film is about an eccentric poodle breeder who lures a broke college student to her remote ranch with a promise of research funding.
“As he soon learns, there’s a catch.”
Daniel Doheny, Dot Marie Jones, Maddie Phillips, and Tanaya Beatty star.
Expect to see the release of Breeder in Fall 2026.
Breeder will first premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this month.
“Independent Film Company and Shudder have always been a dream home for us,” Alex Goyette said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to partner with them to bring Breeder to audiences following its world premiere at Tribeca. As conversations around eugenics continue to resurface, our film confronts those ideas through the eyes of a deranged poodle breeder.”
“Breeder is the kind of movie that makes you lean forward and ask, ‘How did they get away with this?’” said Mark Ward of IFC Entertainment Group. “It’s provocative and constantly surprises you just when you think you’ve figured it out. We knew the moment we saw it that audiences will be talking about it long after they leave the theater, and we can’t wait to shock audiences on the big screen later this year.”