![]() This show is part spooky and part horror, but also for the whole family. I loved The House with a Clock in its Walls. It’s giving kids something that they can chew on, that will be their mythology and their monsters that they can take ownership of, for the rest of their lives. Whether it’s Missy, who wants everything to be perfect, but she turns into a Rougarou, and the loss of control of your body is a real fear for kids. ![]() There’s always some side that we’re embarrassed by, that we’re ashamed of, and that we’re afraid of. Here, the monsters are real, and when you’re dealing with real monsters, they always represent some side of ourselves. In Scooby-Doo, the kids were smart and they solved the mystery, but it was always a person in a mask. Kid scary, at its best, can give you that thrill and give you that laugh, but you can also Trojan horse all these ideas of bravery and friendship and finding your own voice and finding your own power. You want kids to watch the show and have fun, but then also go to New Orleans and see the places that are portrayed in the series. It’s so interesting how putting a visual representation to it can educate kids and make them reframe it in a completely different way. But now, you can have a whole generation of kids that go, “Oh, this is a Lwa that helps you cross over, when you leave this world and go into the spirit world. We grew up with thinking voodoo is when someone is gonna put a spell on you and poke pins in a doll. We thought, if you can do this and do it right, and bring in practitioners, and voodoo priests and priestesses, and people from New Orleans, that could really authenticate the groundwork for the story you’re telling, you could have something so cool and so special and unique, so that kids would think of it in a different way. If you think about the crossover of religion and horror, look at how The Exorcist is still going, and you have Maman Brigitte, the Lwa, Papa Legba and Marie Laveau, and what she was to New Orleans. Looking into the religion, there are so many incredible, beautiful things. In terms of animation, we thought about how voodoo was portrayed when we grew up and what we saw, whether it was a voodoo doll in Creepshow, or a mad scientist using voodoo to create slaves, it was always done in a very cartoony way and it was very one-dimensional. It’s the most haunted city in America, with the amount of ghost tours that they do in New Orleans. Some of them had different names, at the time, but we put together this series because we thought New Orleans is such a rich city, in terms of its history and in terms of horror. We thought of the characters – Patrick Patterson and Stanley Rodriguez and Missy and Soleil Le Claire. It was an ambitious idea, but we said, “Let’s create something, whether it’s an animated series or books, that’s like Goosebumps, but that’s about a group of kids in New Orleans that are solving supernatural mysteries and that they accidentally unleashed this evil called The Fright.” And we put it together. There hadn’t been something that did what Scooby-Doo did for us, when we were kids, where you would watch the show and it was scary and it was safe, and the kids always figured it out on their own without the parents. We were talking about doing something horror and scary for our kids. ![]() Animation is obviously a long process, and this started back in 2015, when I sat down with James Frey, the writer, who is a dear friend of mine. How did this come about? Did you just want to capture something with that vibe?ĮLI ROTH: Absolutely. I love everything about it because of that. If I had to pick a life vibe, it would definitely be that, so I was all over this show. He also talked about the level of gore in his upcoming R-rated slasher film Thanksgiving and why it’s taken so long to bring it to the big screen, along with what happened to History of Horror.Ĭollider: New Orleans, spooky and Halloween are pretty much my three favorite things. During this 1-on-1 interview with Collider, Roth talked about how this series he created with Frey came about, the vibe they were aiming for, why New Orleans is the perfect setting, building on what succeeded with the PG-rated The House with a Clock in its Walls, and the impression The Twilight Zone and Weird Science made on him.
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