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Alexis Arquette: Portrait of a Scream Queen
The Arquettes are a Fright Family. Together, they have starred in five major horror franchises, including A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. Patricia, David, and Roseanna are household names, and their sister Alexis should be no exception. Like her brother David, Alexis often found roles in the horror genre, but not the ones she had always longed for. Nonetheless, whether a supernatural townie, goth wannabe, or a teenager in drag, Alexis was a magnetic presence in each horror film. Here is a retrospective on Alexis Arquette, the horror icon!
The Arquettes are a Fright Family. Together, they have starred in five major horror franchises, including A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. Patricia, David, and Roseanna are household names, and their sister Alexis should be no exception. Like her brother David, Alexis often found roles in the horror genre, but not the ones she had always longed for. Nonetheless, whether a supernatural townie, goth wannabe, or a teenager in drag, Alexis was a magnetic presence in each horror film.
This July 28th would have been Alexis’ 55th birthday. Her life was cut short on September 11th, 2016, by AIDS, a diagnosis she acquired around the time she was 18 years old. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Arquette kept her health private and was “obstinate” about utilizing new treatments available for those living with HIV/AIDS. Though she had lived openly as a queer since her teenage years, she chose not to share her status due to the persistent issues she faced while being an actor.
Sham Ibrahim, a friend who performed at drag shows with Alexis, said the actress was a Hollywood pariah in her early days, “Directors and producers avoided her. She was rightfully angry that she should have had the success and notoriety that comes with being such a talented actor and being born into a family that presents the opportunity to you.” It was not until 2004 that Alexis chose to share with the media that she was transgender, a fact that her family had always been supportive of.
Out in Hollywood
David, Patricia, and Rosanna Arquette have been fierce allies to their sister for her entire life. When Alexis was bullied at school, “I started fighting people,’” Patricia said in 2011. Alexis began dressing in drag as young as two, and would eventually disown her birth name for ‘Alexis.’ It was with Patricia that Alexis traveled to New York City in the late 1980s to pursue their acting dreams. Her sister would soon make her film debut as Kristen Parker, the protagonist of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in 1987.
In a 1999 interview with Index Magazine, Alexis was asked about her myriad roles in horror: “I’m definitely a fan of splatter. And I like horror…” Alexis’ horror filmography includes roles in and out of drag. She frequently played troubled characters, whose piercing eyes were not without a devilish glint. An androgynous chameleon, Alexis played both masc and femme roles. While she was featured in high-profile films like The Wedding Singer and Pulp Fiction, her horror film roles, in my opinion, are the most mesmerizing. On the bloody silver screen, she is mysterious, silly, intense, and, of course, funny. Unfortunately, she had just a decade of work before being ostracized from Hollywood following her coming out in 2004. “Her career was cut short,” advocates her sister, “by her decision to live her truth and her life as a transgender woman. Despite the fact that there are few parts for trans actors, she refused to play roles that were demeaning or stereotypical. She was a vanguard in the fight for understanding and acceptance for all trans people.” Alexis felt that when it came to conversations about trans people, particularly trans actors, the work often gets overshadowed, and the wild imaginations of cisgender folks take center stage. When discussing the invasive and “perverse” questioning directed at newly out trans actors while a panelist for “Out in the Open: Sexual & Gender Identity Secrets” on Larry King in 2009, she stated, “I think it’s more an exposing type thing because it’s not about your work, not about what you want to contribute as an entertainer… It’s only about your very personal identity issue.”
Peak: The ‘90s
After Arquette made her film debut as transgender sex worker Georgette in Last Exit to Brooklyn in 1989, she began landing small roles in independent films, many of them thrillers and horror. She played the uncredited role of Vampire DJ in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer in 1992 (alongside her brother David), and a corporal in Ghost Brigade in 1993. This same year, Alexis would star as the protagonist of Jack Be Nimble. Hers was an incredibly dramatic role of an abused young man in search of his sister. “[V]ery Carrie-esque,” according to Arquette. She would star as Punk (victim #3) in Frisk two years later, a queer thriller about a serial killer. When shown in Manhattan in 1996, The New York Times reported that “its gory scenes of drugged-out punks being sodomized, strung up and murdered were enough to send a number of viewers scurrying to the exits.”
Simultaneous to her film career, Alexis was performing in drag shows in New York as Eva Destruction. She starred alongside Lady Bunny and RuPaul at the 1994 Wigstock Festival, and Eva was featured in the film Wigstock (1995). “Drag can do a lot of things for people,” explained Arquette in 1999. “It can make them look at their ideas of femininity, masculinity… Our ideas of sexuality are all learned, they’re all in our heads, they have nothing to do with emotions or reality or, you know, love, which is what we’re all looking for.” Donned in drag, Alexis portrayed bad girl Lisa Marie Blair in the low-budget horror short Scream, Teen, Scream! (1996). This slumber party slasher spoof has it all: drugs, pizza, boys, a Ouija board, and the ghost of Karen Carpenter. Scream, Teen, Scream is a severely underrated horror parody and showcases a fabulous comedic performance by Arquette.
Alexis had range. She became a bad boy in Sometimes, They Come Back… Again (1996), the sequel to a Stephen King short story adaptation. The straight-to-video horror film is over dramatic, includes questionable dialogue, and is unintentionally funny. Arquette plays Tony, a complete slimeball and villain. She effortlessly acts circles around future Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank. Her piercing eyes made her a shoo-in for this role. Two years later, Alexis reaches her peak in horror. No, not as Greg in Children of the Corn V: Field of Terror, but Bride of Chucky. Starring opposite queer icon Jennifer Tilly (Bound), Alexis plays Damien, Tilly’s goth lover. Creepy yet sexy Damien is revealed to be dweebish Howard Fitzwater, a poser. Though her character doesn’t last long, Alexis’ role is a memorable one. She holds her own with bombshell Tilly, and along with her on-screen lover, sets the tone for the rest of this revamped entry of the Child’s Play franchise. 2000s emo kids and other Spencer’s gifts-customers owe a lot to Alexis’ portrayal. This would be the final horror role of her career.
Legacy
According to Patricia, “[Alexis’] career was cut short, not by her passing, but by her decision to live her truth and her life as a transgender woman.” After coming out in the early 2000s, Alexis’ career stalled. However, she used this time to become a leading voice in Hollywood for trans rights, using her platform to advocate for trans acceptance. “Despite the fact that there are few parts for trans actors, she refused to play roles that were demeaning or stereotypical,” explained Patricia. “She was a vanguard in the fight for understanding and acceptance for all trans people.” Patricia’s comment came at the heels of the 2017 Academy Awards after Alexis was not mentioned in the “In Memoriam” segment. Alexis’ omission was negligent. “We’re living in a time right now,” continued Patricia to Vanity Fair, “where trans kids can’t even go to the bathroom in schools… It’s really unfortunate that the Oscars decided they couldn’t show a trans person who was such an important person in this community. Because—trans kids—it could have meant a lot to them.”
As Alexis’ health deteriorated, she slowly abandoned her femme presentation. In a 2009 YouTube post, Alexis urged she would “rather die on a hospital table than never [surgically transition].” However, the emotional toll accrued after years of public transphobia proved too heavy to bear, and her ailing health made it difficult to put on make-up and a wig every day. Her brother David divulged months before Alexis’ death that she then preferred to be known as “gender suspicious.”
While on her deathbed, surrounded by family, Alexis drifted away to David Bowie’s “Starman,” per her wishes. Alexis was a truly magnetic and otherworldly talent. She showcased her ability to transform, particularly in horror – a medium that has always lent itself to tales of transformation. Alexis’ ascent in the 1990s as an openly queer actor began as optimistic, a potentiality for a queerer film landscape and Hollywood acceptance. Though her career was cut short by discrimination, she represented the possibility for a better and more malleable Hollywood, one not so bent on the binary. How beautiful it could have been for Alexis to see the careers of young actors flourish amidst transition and gender fluidity, as many of them do today. And maybe her own could have been revived.
Thank you, Alexis Arquette. We miss you.
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The Dark Castle Remakes Deserved Better (Including The Ones That Never Were)
Castle was a primetime player when it came to entertaining the imaginations of audiences and the minds of many young filmmakers. This included media visionary Robert Zemeckis, who in an interview described making his father take him to see all sorts of monster movies, but in particular those of William Castle.
Decades later, when he broke into the industry, Zemeckis linked up with American film producer Joel Silver. The two would later start the often-forgotten but fairly successful Dark Castle Entertainment, named in honor of William Castle. Their goal? To use the company as a springboard to remake Castle’s films. And while the first two films came to fruition, remakes of House on Haunted Hill and Thirteen Ghosts respectively, this masterplan never really panned out. It’s anybody’s guess as to why they weren’t able to bring the homage dream to fruition, but the main suspect? Film rights disputes.
You’ve probably seen a rash of memes about Regal Cinemas’ 4DX on your For You page recently. The theater experience that will shake the life out of you in your chair, or blast you with water, or if you’re going to see Alien: Romulus deploys a real-life face hugger to get you. But after seeing one of those videos, I remembered that this had all been done by one of the most ambitious filmmakers of the ‘50s and ‘60s, a man dedicated to completely immersing audiences in his films: William Castle.
A juggernaut of B-movies, Castle was a big fan of implementing silly gimmicks for even sillier horror films; you might end up in a “Percepto” shocking chair that gave the sensation of being attacked by a crawling parasite, or find yourself voting in a “Punishment Poll” on the fate of a film’s villain with glow in the dark cards. Or most hilariously, you might be given a $1000 life insurance certificate to be used in the event the film was frightening enough to kill you (a little north of $10,000 in today’s cash).
THE CREATION AND IMMEDIATE REROUTING OF DARK CASTLE ENTERTAINMENT
Castle was a primetime player when it came to entertaining the imaginations of audiences and the minds of many young filmmakers. This included media visionary Robert Zemeckis, who in an interview described making his father take him to see all sorts of monster movies, but in particular those of William Castle.
Decades later, when he broke into the industry, Zemeckis linked up with American film producer Joel Silver. The two would later start the often-forgotten but fairly successful Dark Castle Entertainment, named in honor of William Castle. Their goal? To use the company as a springboard to remake Castle’s films. And while the first two films came to fruition, remakes of House on Haunted Hill and Thirteen Ghosts respectively, this masterplan never really panned out. It’s anybody’s guess as to why they weren’t able to bring the homage dream to fruition, but the main suspect? Film rights disputes.
John Squires of Bloody Disgusting wrote a pretty interesting article about the prospective Thirteen Ghosts television series revival, which was halted by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA Strikes that set Hollywood ablaze the past few years. In it, show producer John Mediate explains that even if it weren’t for the strikes, Sony’s split franchise rights with Dark Castle for Thirteen Ghosts make getting their blessing much more complicated than a simple go-ahead. Likewise, the majority of Castle’s films aren’t solely William Castle Productions features, so getting Columbia or Allied Artists or any of the other rights holders to approve of remakes would have certainly been a problem from the jump.
My current running theory is that a lot of those remakes were killed early on because of it, with House and Thirteen being the only ones to make it to full film status.
FROM CRITICALLY REVILED TO CRITICALLY RE-EVALUATED
The final horror remake the studio put out wasn’t even for a Castle film but a very loose remake of the Vincent Price feature House of Wax. House of Wax holds some of my earliest memories of seeing critics rail on a film, partly because it is a very standard slasher with all the tropes it entails, and partly because of the kind of sexist media circus around Paris Hilton being in the film (the amount of men I’ve seen slip in nasty digs at her while trying to present their criticisms of the film seriously is about as gross as the films gnarliest effects).
Following the smash success of the trippy psychological thriller Gothika, the studio almost instantly went from being made for remakes to creaking brand new IPs. It also eventually produced films for many well-known horror directors like Simon Barret’s Séance, Vincenzo Natali’s Splice, and Jaume Collett-Serra’s Orphan.
All three of the remakes have seen some form of critical reevaluation in recent years, with video essays on Thirteen Ghosts and House on Haunted Hill finding an audience through bigger YouTubers like Ryan Hollinger and MistaGG. The democratization of media criticism through social platforms has definitely helped rehabilitate the reputation of these films, whether one finds it deserved or not.
THE CASTLE FILMS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER
And I don’t blame them, because House of Wax, House on Haunted Hill, and especially Thirteen Ghosts are fun films to watch. Thirteen is one of my favorite ghost films of all time because of the creative spark you can find burning inside each and every one of the ghost designs in it. Whether you were drawn to the phantasmagoric and flesh-warping design of The Hammer, or completely terrified of the Jackal barely contained in his scolds-bridle and strait jacket, you will leave the film with at least one new favorite horror villain.
Though I couldn’t appreciate it in the past, House of Wax is also a pretty impressive film for its effects. It fits nicely in that era of the grotesque that was the early 2000s, with a lot of nasty moments like the “peeling” scene. Which, if you haven’t seen it, is so much worse than it sounds! Not to mention, it makes interesting slashers in how it replaces Vincent Price’s spooky wax museum owner Henry Jarrod with the more brutal killers Vince and Bo Sinclair.
While I enjoy Dark Castle Entertainment films like Orphan well enough, and especially enjoy its sequel Orphan: First Kill, I do mourn the many lost possibilities for the remakes that never made the cut. The Tingler and Dr. Sardonicus, in particular, strike me as if they would have some fantastic reinterpretations thanks to the special effects possibilities that lurked within them; they’re body horror spectacles just waiting in the wings for their time to shine. Though Guy Rolfe hated wearing the makeup in the original film, there is something in the Sardonicus smile prosthetics that has so much potential to creep you out on screen with the right people in charge of them, and I think about them quite a bit when people ask me if there’s any horror films that I think deserve a remake.
The potential for more modern gimmicks in theatres is still strong and alive, and in a time when horror movies are just feeling more fun and experimental in general, it’s a waste not to explore it. And as long as we’re doing as many reboots and requels and remakes as we are, we might as well give the campier horror of decades past a fighting chance like Dark Castle initially wanted to. And studios might as well do what remakes have always been meant to do: reimagine and revitalize tried and true stories for the next generation.
But until that strain of thought becomes more popular, we can always indulge in some classic William Castle schlock on the small screen while we wait. Happy watching horror fans!
Misc
Universal Studios Orlando Halloween Horror Nights 2024: The Definitive House Rankings
The Florida sun is blazing and the smell of fake fog is strong over at Universal Studios Orlando, where Halloween Horror Nights 33 is well underway. I was thrilled to spend several nights at the event in mid September, and after running through each haunted house multiple times (in between enjoying a Mini Stay-Puft S’more or three), I’m pleased to share my totally definitive, can’t-argue-with-my-logic HHN 2024 house rankings with the world.
The Florida sun is blazing and the smell of fake fog is strong over at Universal Studios Orlando, where Halloween Horror Nights 33 is well underway. I was thrilled to spend several nights at the event in mid September, and after running through each haunted house multiple times (in between enjoying a Mini Stay-Puft S’more or three), I’m pleased to share my totally definitive, can’t-argue-with-my-logic HHN 2024 house rankings with the world.
The Houses of Halloween Horror Nights 2024, RANKED
Okay, that’s a lie: my rankings are highly subjective and — I anticipate — fairly controversial, so don’t let them dissuade you from checking out a house you’re curious about! But if you’re on the fence about which Stay & Scream pen to scamper into or whether that 90-minute wait time is truly worth it, let this list guide your feet as you navigate the roving chainsaw gang…
10. Major Sweets Candy Factory
The prequel to the Sweet Revenge scarezone at HHN 31, Major Sweets Candy Factory is one of the six original houses at Halloween Horror Nights this year. I’m sorry to say that, for me at least, it was the weakest of the bunch. Maybe I’m just not scared of kids, but the storyline here fell flat for me.
This house is one of the grossest, however. Puking bodies and barrels of gore plague you as you move deeper into the cruel confectioner’s factory, offset with appearances from the maniacally laughing Miss Treats armed with various weapons. Be sure to press the big red buttons as you pass to trigger a surprise for yourself or another guest!
9. A Quiet Place
I’m sure I’ll catch some flack for this, but I didn’t love my visit to A Quiet Place (and it had nothing to do with my general ambivalence toward the first two films). This house took a big swing with its minimal sound design and attempts to discourage noise from guests, but its overreliance on animatronics makes its scares feel predictable, while also removing the possibility of guest-triggered creature “attacks.” It’s hard to feel truly immersed in this world when the teens in front of you are wittering away without consequence.
What A Quiet Place loses in surprise, it makes up for in set design. With detailed recreations of the flooded basement from the original film, the dock from A Quiet Place Part II, and more, this house certainly succeeds in making you feel like you’re stepping into the franchise. Sadly, there’s no Lupita Nyong’o or cute kitties to be found, but if you’re willing to brave the ever-long wait times, A Quiet Place is worth creeping through.
8. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
I struggled with the placement of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire on this list. On the one hand, this house includes some virtually screen-accurate recreations of sets from the recent film of the same name, including a frozen firehouse facade that is sure to stir your nostalgia. On the other hand, it’s based on one of the least interesting entries in the Ghostbusters franchise, so unless you’re enamored with the new films (which I am not), you may not find this house rewarding enough for repeat visits.
To combat this, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire does feature a few cameos from fan-favorite entities across the franchise, and the way that Slimer is brought to life is endlessly endearing. Predictably more fun than scary (though the towering ice demon Garraka has his moments), this house won’t chill you to the bone, but it will make you hungry for one of those Mini Stay-Puft S’mores I mentioned.
7. Triplets of Terror
Halloween Horror Nights is gunning for its own slasher franchise with Triplets of Terror! As you move through the house, you’ll be assailed by the Barmy siblings — Melody, Harmony, and Junior — as, every 10 years, they recreate the night when they slaughtered their parents.
With shades of Rob Zombie and some particularly hulking scareactors portraying Junior, Triplets of Terror successfully conveys the sensation of being trapped inside a slasher film. Where it fell a little short for me was in its repetitiveness. While the triplets do age up as you move through the house, their masks shrinking on their faces, the change isn’t substantial enough to make their repeat appearances with the same weapons feel new or surprising. Still a strong house and often boasting far shorter wait times than the big IPs that surround it, you’d be barmy to miss Triplets of Terror during your visit.
6. Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines
Universal Monsters houses at Halloween Horror Nights are often high rankers for me, but I have to admit that this year’s entry has its faults. The most timing-dependent house of the 2024 line-up, it’s not uncommon to have a walkthrough that feels somewhat empty.
That’s a shame because Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines is a truly beautiful house. After entering the snowy cemetery where Saskia Van Helsing is mourning her deceased family, we follow the fledgling monster hunter as she seeks revenge against the vampire that killed them. The return of the Bride of Frankenstein is a highlight, but the ambitious plot can be a little hard to follow (even after multiple visits and a Behind-the-Screams tour, I’m a little hazy about why Saskia goes to Egypt). I suspect this one may grow stronger as the scareactors firm up their timing, but for me, Eternal Bloodlines wasn’t as fang-tastic (heh heh) as I’d hoped.
5. The Museum: Deadly Exhibits
I’ve seen a lot of chatter online about The Museum: Deadly Exhibits being meh, but I’m here to tell you that among my scream squad, this one was a firm favorite. If you love museums as much as I do, it’s hard not to be charmed by the detailed signage, inflated ticket prices, and eerily corrupted audio tour as you live out a true nightmare at the museum.
The plot of this one concerns The Rotting Stone, an ancient artifact that possesses the other displays and brings them to life. It’s fun to watch the exhibits unravel and the staff lose their heads (literally) as the evil spreads, represented through glowing green patches on the walls and a handful of living rock creatures that aren’t afraid to crowd you. A wide variety of characters and some well-placed in-plain-sight scareactors provide plenty of screams, but the long nature of some of the corridors does result in certain scares being spoiled long before you reach them.
4. Goblin’s Feast
Located at the very back of the park, Goblin’s Feast consistently had some of the shortest wait times during my visit, so others may not be as hungry for the feast as I was. But for my money, this is one of the most beautiful houses at Halloween Horror Nights this year.
Jaunty music and a prancing goblin with malice in his eyes greet you as you enter the tavern facade of Goblin’s Feast, setting the tone for an experience that balances comedy, fantasy, and meaty gore. These goblins are flesh-eaters, you see, and we’re on the menu. While the distinction between the fairytale creatures in the house isn’t always clear, and some of the details of the impressive set are lost in the darkness, Goblin’s Feast is a delicious bite of camp that made me hungry for more.
3. Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America
A transplant from Halloween Horror Nights 2023 in Hollywood, Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America invites guests to experience the legends of Tlahuelpuchi, La Lechuza, and El Silbón, three creatures of folklore that share a taste for blood.
Impeccable set design, one truly jaw-dropping animatronic, and the towering terror that is El Silbón make this house an utter delight to walk through, with one particularly creative scare sending my friend hurtling back into another’s arms. I should note that this house is one of the more pungent entries in HHN 33’s lineup, but hold your nose and power through it, because Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America is a true standout.
2. Slaughter Sinema 2
Following the success of the original house at Halloween Horror Nights 28 in 2018, Slaughter Sinema 2 welcomes us back to the Carey Drive-In for another B-movie marathon. From a demonic Western to sharksploitation and a mummified sleaze-fest, you’ll step into snapshots of eight fictional flicks, each separated by a stretch of poster-lined lobby that tees up the film ahead.
The success of this house lies in its variation. If one room doesn’t work for you, you know there’s a wildly different movie waiting just around the corner. The drive-in facade also makes the queue for Slaughter Sinema 2 an experience in itself, especially after dark when you’ll see trailers for the films you’re about to witness projected on the big screen. Fill up your novelty popcorn bucket before getting in line, and you’ll be in for a good time.
1. Insidious: The Further
I’ve been coming to Halloween Horror Nights since 2019 and no other house has made me cower quite like Insidious: The Further. Incorporating sinister specters from all five films in the Insidious franchise, the scares come thick and fast in this house, especially once you shiver and shriek your way into the curtain-shrouded realm of the Lipstick-Face Demon.
If A Quiet Place felt like stepping into a movie, Insidious: The Further feels like getting lost in one. From the moment you step through the oversized red door and see the Lambert family house bathed in the eerie blue light of the Further, you’re on your own, Elise’s calming voice growing fainter and fainter behind you. Elise herself only appears twice in the house, though we never see her face, and only in the initial rooms; the deeper you go, the further you get from help.
It’s terrifying, a word I don’t use lightly, and I found myself drawn inexorably back, even as the wait times crept up (though I’m pleased to report they drop significantly after 1 a.m. if you can stay awake). Let this recommendation be your guide. Keep a steady stride. Into Insidious: The Further you go…
Well, that’s my list, and I look forward to hearing how wrong I am. In all seriousness, I love talking Halloween Horror Nights, so go experience it for yourself and come tell me your rankings! Happy hauntings…
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