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Key & Peele Teaming Up With Henry Selick for Stop-Motion Horror Comedy
Comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are joining forces with Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, Monkeybone) on a new stop-motion horror comedy titled Wendell and Wild, according to Variety. Now, it should be noted that at this stage they’re still developing the project, which is based off a story by Selick.
Selick explains that the movie is about, “…two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raoul.”
Both Key and Peele each have experience with animation work, with both having appeared on Fox’s “Bob’s Burgers”.
No other news has yet been released but it’ll be interesting to see where this goes. Selick’s films always have such a wild imagination and fantastic set of images that it’ll be hard to not find interest in this film.
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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