Hunter Schafer Responds To Scream Queen Compliment As Horror Debut ‘Cuckoo’ Premieres In Berlin: “I Love Horror Movies and Screaming Is Really Fun”
deadline.comEuphoria star Hunter Schafer stole the show at the Berlin Film Festival press conference on Friday for Tilman Singer’s horror movie Cuckoo which is world premiering at the city’s 2,500-capacity Verti Music Hall this evening.
Schafer stars as Gretchen who travels to a resort town in German Alps with her father and stepmother where she is drawn into a conspiracy involving bizarre experiments by the resort’s owner that echo back generations.
Following press screenings ahead of this evening’s premiere, the movie is already generating buzz among genre and horror fans.
Hailed as a new “Scream Queen” by one of the journalists at the press conference, Schafer double checked what they meant before replying. “A scream queen is by definition someone who does a lot of horror movie, right?,” she asked, before suggesting in her answer that she was not planning to focus uniquely on horror in the future. “There’s no rhyme or rhythm to what I’m doing with it.
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