Shudder’s already hosted one panel a couple of horror anthology—found-footage function V/H/S/94—at 2021’s San Diego Comic-Con @ Home. Before the con is over, it’ll share particulars on the third season of horror anthology sequence Creepshow. And it additionally has two new horror anthology sequence on the best way with their very own panels: Horror Noire, primarily based on the superb documentary about Black horror, and the one we’re right here to speak about, titled Slasher: Flesh & Blood.

Slasher is definitely the broader title for a Canadian sequence that’s been going for 3 seasons: 2016’s Slasher: The Executioner, 2017’s Slasher: Guilty Party, and 2019’s Slasher: Solstice. It’s apparently been so widespread that horror streamer Shudder took an curiosity, simply in time to carry Flesh & Blood to its subscribers. Here’s the outline of the sequence, which feels like a bit like a slasher-movie spin on Agatha Christie: “Slasher: Flesh & Blood follows a wealthy, but dysfunctional family that gathers for a reunion on a secluded island only to learn they’ll be pitted against one another in a cruel game of life and death, all while being stalked by a mysterious masked killer. Nothing is what it seems, and no one is safe as the tension—and body count—ratchets up.”

The San Diego Comic-Con panel featured showrunner Ian Carpenter, creator Aaron Martin, and actors David Cronenberg and Rachael Crawford, who’re each new to the sequence, in addition to returning solid member Paula Brancati. There was additionally a first-look trailer, which you’ll watch about 30 seconds into the panel beneath, or test it out on the finish of this submit.

So sure, household drama galore—but in addition full-on horror mayhem too. “There are some kills this season I had to look away from. They’re just revolting, in a great way.” Martin stated. Of the characters, he added, “Like any family, they love each other, they hate each other, but in this case, they get to kill each other.”

Cronenberg’s character particularly, who will get introduction in that trailer, is the patriarch of a wealthy household who makes them work for his or her inheritance. “I approached it as kind of a Shakespeare’s King Lear, with a great tragic central character played by me. First time I’ve ever been offered a role like that, actually; I tend to play dispassionate scientists, doctors, and so on,” he stated. “In Viggo Mortensen’s film [Falling] I was a proctologist—I guess that was the height, or maybe the depth of my acting career. But this was quite exciting for me because this character is not dispassionate. He’s very passionate. He’s very intense, he’s very emotional, and it required me to do some things as an actor … that I had never actually had to do before. So it was a wonderful challenge.”

Later, Cronenberg spoke about what it’s like being a part of a horror TV present reasonably than a horror film, one thing he is aware of a factor or two about. “There was a time when I thought I wouldn’t make any more movies, but then … the whole streaming thing—even before the pandemic—was really quite a revelation, you know? The idea that you could have an eight-hour movie, for example, or a 10-hour movie, really changes everything. In a way, a normal movie under two hours is really like a short story or, at best, a novella. But with eight hours, 10 hours, that is a novel—you can really get into complexities and shadings and everything else, and I think that’s exactly what this show demonstrates, compared with, say, a slasher movie of the traditional type.”

Slasher: Flesh & Blood debuts the primary of eight episodes on Shudder on August 12. Will you be tuning in?

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