AGATHA ALL ALONG Cast Compares Series to Classic Horror Flicks Like THE EXORCIST, THE CRAFT and POLTERGEIST
We are just a month away from Marvel’s Disney+ series Agatha All Along, which is the WandaVision spinoff series that focuses on the continuing adventures of Kathryn Hahn’s character, Agatha Harkness.
She is joined by other witches in the cast Patti LuPone’s Lilia, Sasheer Zamata’s Jennifer, Debra Jo Rupp’s Sharon, and Ali Ahn’s Alice, as well as co-stars Joe Locke, Maria Dizzia, Paul Adelstein, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Okwui Okpokwasili and Aubrey Plaza.
When talking about the show and its tone in a new interview with Total Film via GamesRadar, star Joe Locke said that the show references a serious number of iconic movies with The Wizard of Oz being one of the most cited.
He reveals in the issue out this Thursday that "every episode has a different classic horror/thriller film that it is basing itself off".
He went on:
"There are some great Exorcist references in there. Rosemary’s Baby was one of them. There’s so many. Also, The Goonies – that was the one for me.
There was one day that Jac sent Kevin a picture of something, and he replied literally saying, 'Oh my God, it’s The Goonies.' So, that one for me was the big one."
Locke isn't alone in loving the pop culture references either, with Aubrey Plaza also sharing some of hers:
"The Craft is one that I felt was really tonally coming through. That movie gets hardcore scary, and what’s cool The Craft is one about Agatha is it really rides the line.
There are times when it’s really funny and almost has this campy quality, but then there are times that it just gets really dark and grounded and scary."
Meanwhile Agatha herself Kathryn Hahn says she loves the callbacks to old Hollywood.
"There’s some Nancy Meyers in there. There is, [as] for witches, some of the friendship of Hocus Pocus – the deep, sweet friendships – and also the terror of Practical Magic, of stuff like Poltergeist or E.T."
In the series, “The infamous Agatha Harkness finds herself down and out of power after a suspicious goth teen helps break her free from a distorted spell.
“Her interest is piqued when he begs her to take him on the legendary Witches’ Road, a magical gauntlet of trials that, if survived, rewards a witch with what they’re missing. Together, Agatha and this mysterious Teen pull together a desperate coven, and set off down, down down, down, The Road…”
Check out the new photo from the series in this month’s magazine above, and get ready to watch Agatha All Along when it begins with a two-episode premiere on September 18th on Disney+.