• News

“SKYFALL” & “SWEENEY TODD” scripter goes to Blumhouse’s “WHISTLER CAMP” for his directorial debut

The three-time Academy Award nominee is taking the helm of a topical chiller.

Blumhouse has announced that top screenwriter John Logan will take his maiden voyage as director on WHISTLER CAMP, a horror film/queer empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp. Jason Blum and Michael Aguilar will produce, with Ryan Turek as the overseeing creative executive; casting is currently underway. Logan received Oscar nods for Martin Scorsese’s HUGO and THE AVIATOR and Ridley Scott’s GLADIATOR; his credits also include the James Bond blockbuster SKYFALL, Tim Burton’s SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, Scott’s ALIEN: COVENANT, THE LAST SAMURAI and ANY GIVEN SUNDAY; he also created and executive-produced Showtime’s supernatural series PENNY DREADFUL and last year’s follow-up show PENNY DREADFUL: CITY OF ANGELS. We’ll keep you posted on further details about this one!

Read More

Get The Grim Reader.
Rue Morgue's free newsletter.
Editor's notes.
Cultural insight.
Curated horror across film, books, music, and art.
First looks.
Select previews.
No algorithms.
Join Free

Advertisement

In Print Since 1997

Issue 232

#232 Halloween 2026

Plus

Resident Evil | Designing Dracula | Exorcist II FEATURES How Weapons director Zach Cregger turned a lifelong obsession with Resident Evil into horror’s most anticipated reboot. Plus: A deep look at the Resident Evil video game franchise and its universe of novelizations, board and card games and more, and a look at Cregger’s long-awaited physical…

Issue 231

#231 Summer Slasher Issue 2026

Plus

Inside Rue Morgue #231 – Summer Slasher Issue FEATURES Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA guts the slasher formula from the inside out, turning it into a romance about the horror of becoming who you were always meant to be. Plus! GILLIAN ANDERSON and HANNAH EINBINDER unpack Schoenbrun’s radical dismemberment of…

Issue 230

#230 May/Jun 2026 – RARE

Plus

Inside Rue Morgue #230 FEATURES Filmmaker Curry Barker transforms a simple wish into a spiralling nightmare of love, possession, and bloodshed in his breakout feature OBSESSION. Plus: The story of Barker’s found-footage shocker MILK & SERIAL, which turned a micro-budget experiment into a viral horror breakout. Hollywood made it a monster. History tells a different…

Issue 229

#229 Mar/Apr 2026

Plus

Inside Rue Morgue #229! FEATURES A nerve-shredding found-footage thriller built around sound, UNDERTONE signals the arrival of a terrifying new voice in Canada’s booming independent horror scene. Plus! Meet the new breed of independent Canadian horror filmmakers behind DREAM EATER, SWEETNESS, HANGASHORE, THE LAND OF NOD and THE CURSE OF GHOST ISLAND. Part post-punk, part…