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Kevin Smith Planning ‘Tusk’ Spin-Off: ‘Yoga-Hosers’
Although he’s “threatened” to retire, polarizing filmmaker Kevin Smith has a slew of projects in development. His body-horror film Tusk is set for release this fall and now Screen Daily is reporting that a spin-off called Yoga-Hosers is due to start filming later this year.
“Like Tusk [Yoga-Hosers] sparing out of a podcast,” Smith told Screen.
“There are two characters in a convenience store in Tusk that you see for five minutes, very much like Ronsencrantz and Guildenstern.*
“I’ve built a whole movie around them and I have brought one of the other characters from Tusk back.”
Love him or hate him, you can’t deny the balls on Smith. He’s planning a follow-up to a film that hasn’t even come out yet – that takes stones.
Smith also has a “Creepshow-like horror anthology” called Come To The Krampus in the works, which has already been pre-sold by distributor XYZ Films.
What say you, readers? You guys into Kevin “Snootchie Bootchies” Smith getting all up in the horror genre?
* the two courtiers sent by the king to spy on Hamlet.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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