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Since he’s known for grisly horror, filmmaker Eli Roth making an animated show comes with certain expectations for hardcore visuals—even if it’s aimed at kids. With Fright Krewe, his latest creative project before the very adult Thanksgiving later this fall, Roth returns to a realm he first explored in 2018’s The House With the Clock in Its Walls.
Delving into this gentler subgenre comes from a love of the supernatural cartoons he grew up with, Roth explained to io9 in a recent interview. “I love gateway horror. I love scary shows for kids. And I felt like I was at a point in my life, in my career where I really wanted to start creating great experiences for kids and that parents could watch with their kids, where the kids could get into scary movies without being traumatized by them.”
Roth and collaborator James Frye first hatched the idea for Fright Krewe in 2015. “That’s how long this project took to come to fruition. James Frye is a dear friend and a writer, we sat down and said, ‘We need to do something for our kids.’ We want to create a show like Scooby-Doo where it’s kids solving supernatural mysteries. We wanted to create our own world, our own mythology of kids solving supernatural mysteries and confronting monsters.
