Writer-director Justin Simien remembers how he was far too young when he saw his first-ever horror movie, “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge.”
It was his aunt who shared her love for movies — not just of horror, but all genres — with a young Simien. He recalls picking up on the movie’s “gay subtext.” “The supposedly, subtextual one…I watched it at a very inappropriate age and had no idea conceptually what was even happening in the movie, but I loved Freddy Krueger,” he tells Variety’s new Awards Circuit Podcast.
Simien, who wrote and directed the “Dear White People” film and series, transitions to horror with Hulu’s “Bad Hair,” which is now streaming on the service. Set in 1989 at the height of the popularity of new jack swing music, the film follows Anna (Elle Lorraine), an assistant who aspires to star in her own show at a music TV station.
It was his aunt who shared her love for movies — not just of horror, but all genres — with a young Simien. He recalls picking up on the movie’s “gay subtext.” “The supposedly, subtextual one…I watched it at a very inappropriate age and had no idea conceptually what was even happening in the movie, but I loved Freddy Krueger,” he tells Variety’s new Awards Circuit Podcast.
Simien, who wrote and directed the “Dear White People” film and series, transitions to horror with Hulu’s “Bad Hair,” which is now streaming on the service. Set in 1989 at the height of the popularity of new jack swing music, the film follows Anna (Elle Lorraine), an assistant who aspires to star in her own show at a music TV station.
- 10/23/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
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