Corey Taylor has a new job: Monster magazine owner. The Slipknot frontman has bought the rights to the beloved 'Famous Monsters' brand, with plans to relaunch the magazine, make toys, produce horror films and host festivals
in a weird way,” Taylor says. Finally, he plans to relaunch the magazine as an annual or biannual publication, using editorial concepts from past issues in new ways.venerated horror’s first golden age — Universal monsters like Dracula and the Creature From the Black Lagoon, as well as Lon Chaney’s legacy — Taylor hopes to use the magazine to trace horror’s evolution. “As a fan who has loved all of it, there’s no one corner of the genre that I subscribe to,” he says.
Taylor is also excited to make up monsters of his own. Citing Ackerman and Warren’s characters like Vampirella and Eerie, he’d like to create his own and turn them into toys, which the Captain Company would sell. He also plans to use thebrand as his studio for filmmaking. “I’ve been writing my own scripts now for the last five, six years. And I’m trying to get some of my stuff into production right now,” he says. “There’s a handful that are very, very close.
His idea for a convention would be something that roams around from city to city and year to year “almost like the Super Bowl or WrestleMania.” He also hopes to launch acruise that blends music and horror. “I would perform,” he says. “I would get some of my friends who lean into that side of it. And really put something cool together.”
So why is Taylor so into horror? “There’s the obvious reasons,” he says. “There’s something cool about a scary movie; there’s something cool about a monster. There’s something cool about the underlying metaphor of ‘It doesn’t matter sometimes if you aren’t the strongest one, you can win and conquer your fears.'” For Taylor who survived abuse as a child, horror movies also give him hope. “It’s like, ‘Well, if they could get through that I can get through this,'” he says.
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