Sometimes, there’s nothing we fear more than becoming our parents.
That terror is at the core of the new queer horror film, Hypochondriac—one gay man’s nightmarish descent into paranoia.
From first-time feature director Addison Heimann, the film follows a successful young potter named Will (American Horror Story‘s Zach Villa) who has a loving boyfriend (The Flash‘s Devon Graye) and a happy life, despite a traumatic past he’s worked hard to forget. When his estranged and institutionalized mother makes contact for the first time in over 10 years, he starts hallucinating haunting images of a man in a wolf costume (which gives us major Donnie Darko vibes, we might add).
Unfortunately for Will, no one else seems to notice these masked menaces, and, as he gradually loses his grasp on reality, he finds himself falling into the darkness that consumed his mom—a journey that drives a wedge between him and his boyfriend and the rest of the life he’s built for himself.
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Also starring television royalty Paget Brewster, Hypochondriac made waves when it played a number of genre festivals over the past year, including SXSW. Now, in the lead-up to its release, there’s a frightening new trailer that will give you a taste of the horrors to come.
And, honestly? Even this teaser will have us sleeping with the lights on. (Note to self: Don’t get into the jacuzzi alone at night.)
Hypochondriac arrives in select theaters on July 29, and will be available on digital/VOD on August 4. Watch the frightening first trailer below:
scotty
i prefer films that let me escape from everyday life, not re-live it.
edwardnvirginia
The ‘Trailer Park’ section heading/logo used here – and elsewhere by Queerty – is a form of HATE NAMING!
‘Trailer Park’ is used by Queerty to denote something they culturally appropriate as DISGUSTING, INFERIOR, and the like. In other words, Queerty’s cultural snot elites HATE working class people who must – because of working class oppression – live in ‘trailer parks’.
QUEERTY is a HATE NAMER!
jcool
so, you live in a trailer park i guess. sensitive much?
Charlie in Charge
It sounds like you are the one suggesting that trailer parks are negative. Here it’s a place we are excited to go to see more of the upcoming gay films. If it were a place with content that Queerty was making fun of that would be negative. What do you have against trailer parks, Edward? They are a very viable means for a lot of people to actually own their own homes instead of renting them from banks.
jcool
let’s start the rumor that edwardnvirginia lives in a double-wide. maybe that will make him feel better.
Doug
Wow… that’s really a stretch.
Kangol2
You’re back and as unhinged as ever. Queerty is playing on the doubled meanings of the first word in the phrase “trailer park,” not commenting on class issues in any way as far as I can tell, but millions of people live in trailer parks and nobody has an issue with it.
YOU are the one who’s connecting negative connotations to them. Do you have an issue with people who live in trailer parks? Are you the classist, projecting your hate onto Queerty? Aren’t they calling your name on TruthSocial or Gettr or one of those sites?
wikidBSTN
Thanks – your comment made me laugh. 🙂
strap2900
Saying someone lives in a trailer is a putdown meaning poor and redneck and lesser than others. I live in a fabricated home and I am neither poor not redneck. but unfortunately this is true of a large number of trailer dwellers.
RyanMBecker
Too scary for me. Might be a good excuse to snuggle up with that someone special though…
scotty
i think Peggy Hill said all that needs to be said about that.