Digital Trends talks with creator Ryan J. Brown about his new Hulu series Wreck, which involves a cruise ship, some horny teens, and a killer duck (yes, really).
In the pantheon of horror movies, there have been a number of memorable visages used by famous fictional killers to stalk their prey. Halloween famously used an altered William Shatner mask to make Michael Myers one of the most memorable slashers of the ’70s while Friday the 13th Part III gave Jason Voorhees a memorable visual identity, a hulking killer with a hockey mask, that has lasted for decades.
Ryan J. Brown: [Laughs} Everything began with the cruise ship. The cruise ship came to me before the duck. I’m glad you thought it was fun, because that’s what I was aiming for. But I also wanted to have some truth to it. I think comic horror is at its best when there’s some horrible truth beneath the surface. You don’t know whether to laugh or cry when you discover that truth.
It sounds like you’ve had experience working on a cruise ship since it informs a large part of why you made the show. Wreck is gory, as any decent horror movie should be, but it’s also very funny. That’s a fine line to straddle. How did you maintain that delicate tone? It’s really hard to make an effective horror movie that’s funny.
I think there’s a combination of factors involved, I think. You write what you know, and I’m probably very similar to Jamie, so that was a starting point. But also I was very keen on everything I create to have queer characters at the forefront and I don’t think we’ve really seen that in horror unless it’s in a very coded way. Gay characters are usually relegated as sidekicks or worse.
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