Scream Queen

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Genre-bending sorority horror Scream Queens is hoping to bring back the teen slasher

Fresh from making James Franco go weak at the knees in Gia Coppola's cult hit Palo Alto, Emma Roberts is getting hazed sorority style for a teen slasher TV show set to debut this autumn that sounds like the stuff of pop-cultural nightmares.

The latest creation of TV renaissance man Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) – which also stars pop-tarts Ariana Grande, Nick Jonas, and Glee alum Lea Michele – is a warped take on life at a sorority house where sleepovers and murders go hand in hand.

Fans of seminal 90s fare like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer or even some of Dawson’s Creek's darker moments will immediately see the potential here. It’s been a while since we had a teen horror moment with enough cult appeal to inspire a new generation of slasher fans, so here are the reasons Scream Queens might just be the next Jawbreaker.

Emma Roberts as Chanel in the Upcoming 2015 series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_AIyP67eY

Scream Queens is an upcoming American horror-comedy anthology television series revolves around a college campus which is rocked by a series of murders and is set in a sorority house.
Featuring Jaime Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Oliver Hudson, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer, Skyler Samuels, Billie Lourd, Diego Boneta, Lucien Laviscount, Glen Powell and guest stars Ariana Grande and Nick Jonas.

TEEN ACTRESSES NEED TO BOOST THEIR APPEAL

If you can’t imagine taking Lea Michele seriously, remember that Neve Campbell was just that awkward girl from Party of Five until she became one of horror’s new pin-ups thanks to turns in The Craft and Scream. Michele’s now free from the shackles of Glee and clearly wants to shake things up. Her role in Scream Queens is described as dark and unrecognizable. She’s even called it her “Charlize Theron in Monster” moment. Let’s not forget that Emma Roberts was once known as Julia Roberts’ niece who made the odd movie until she turned psycho for Ryan Murphy in American Horror Story. It’s amazing what fake blood on a nightgown and a knack for swear words can do for an actress’s grown up appeal.

WE'RE GETTING BACK TO SCARY FUNNY

The appeal of David Robert Mitchell’s nascent cult hit It Follows goes beyond the creepy plot. The opening scene sees a teen girl racing out of her home, around 5 am, in nothing but her underwear and a pair of clumpy red stilettos. When she meets her fatal end on a nearby beach with her leg snapped over head it's half-tragic ending, half-Beyonce dance move and that's where were the magic is. The cult film is laced with funny, hyper-feminine moments that take us back to the super camp premise of Darren Stein's Jawbreaker. Likewise, Scream Queens will have the stabby jokes in between actual stabs.

Published article Dazed by Al Mulhall 29th March under Art & Culture 
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24236/1/is-teen-horror-having-a-moment