Lazy Susan Set To Debut Her Upcoming Drag Queen Horror Film
Image: Image: Film Still - Skin Side Up
Drag Race Down Under season four winner Lazy Susan has revealed the details of her latest project, a drag queen horror film.
Funded by some of her winnings from season four the drag star has revealed more information about her upcoming film.
And in true Lazy Susan fashion it’s something just a little different
Lazy Susan set to release drag queen horror film
A fresh new voice in horror is emerging from the drag world, as Drag Race Down Under Season four winner Lazy Susan who also works as Robert Ten Eyck, prepares to debut his feature film Skin Side Up at the prestigious Cannes Fronti猫res Platform.
Ten Eyck鈥檚 debut is already generating buzz with a theatrical distribution deal secured for Australia and New Zealand via Umbrella Entertainment, the company behind acclaimed genre titles like The Babadook and Late Night With the Devil.
The film, described as a bold foray into drag queen horror, centres on Bertha Woodhouse, a queen hired for a hen鈥檚 party in a remote location.
What should be a typical gig quickly turns sinister when the party of four behaves strangely and a mysterious note appears during a party game: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know who these people are. HELP.鈥�
鈥淭his film is deeply personal,鈥� Ten Eyck told Variety. 鈥淎s a queer person and a drag performer, I鈥檝e lived the unsettling reality of walking into unfamiliar spaces, not knowing if I鈥檓 truly safe. I wanted to make a film about that fear 鈥� the terror of being trapped in someone else鈥檚 idea of who you should be. Skin Side Up聽is dark, disturbing and fucked up in all the ways I love, but it鈥檚 also a deeply human story about identity, control and survival.鈥�
The project is backed by Cellophane Studios and Iris Arc Pictures, known for producing elevated genre stories with a social edge.
鈥淭o me, horror is at its best when it mines your fundamental fears. I hadn鈥檛 seen depicted this kind of fear that I have when I walk into very classically heteronormative spaces and you think, 鈥極h my God, it鈥檚 a trap. It鈥檚 a trap.鈥� As a drag queen, we end up working a lot at wedding adjacent events, hen鈥檚 parties, bachelorettes. It鈥檚 a very bizarre thing to be kind of popped into the middle of a thing that you鈥檝e spent your life running away from,鈥� he told Variety.
While Ten Eyck acknowledges the film鈥檚 unconventional lead, he鈥檚 optimistic about audience reactions.
鈥淚 did have this moment of pause where I asked if we can really replace a Neve Campbell, the young scream queen, the Jamie Lee Curtis, with a 40-something burnt-out cross-dresser鈥� To me, the most heartening moment… is that, yes, in fact, people do immediately have this warmth towards her.鈥�
Skin Side Up is set to be unveiled on May 17 at the Proof of Concept showcase of the Fronti猫res Platform.
What did I spend my prize money on?
Part of it went to making a sizzle reel for the drag horror feature I鈥檝e been dying to make.Read:
鈥� Lazy Susan (@MsLazySusan)
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