Fangoria is officially back in the movie business. Following up on their announcement back in September, new Fango owners Tara Ansley and Abhi Goel have launched Fangoria Studios, a new company that plans to use the venerable horror magazine’s trademark brand to develop TV shows, movies, and podcasts in both the sci-fi and horror genres.
Ansley, a film producer (Tragedy Girls), purchased Fangoria last year alongside Goel, a tech entrepreneur. According to Ansley, they plan to “draw upon the Fangoria brands” for new projects, as well as Fango‘s sister publications Starlog, a science-fiction magazine that’s been defunct since 2009, and Gorezone, which is now a website for daily horror news.
The new Fangoria Studios is represented by the New York/Los Angeles-based Circle of Confusion, which bills itself as a “premiere management and production destination for exceptional actors, writers, directors, content creators, publishers, and journalists.” It counts several reasonably high-profile talents as clients, including Adam Goldberg (The Goldbergs), Molly Parker (Pieces of a Woman on Netflix), Ryan Spindell (writer/director of The Mortuary Collection on Shudder), and Sterlin Harjo (the forthcoming Reservation Dogs on FX).
No details have been revealed yet about Fangoria Studios’ first projects. Ansley and Goel said from the jump that their plan was to “champion new and diverse creators… across multiple platforms.” While Fangoria has been involved with film production and distribution for over 30 years at this point, through labels like “Fangoria Presents,” “Fangoria Frightfest,” and “Fangoria Films,” most of the movies in the Fango stable were really reveling in being low-budget projects. It’s probably safe to assume that the plan here is to use the Fangoria name to get eyeballs on some new projects, rather than trying to crack into the Fango vault for valuable intellectual property like Mindwarp. Then again, given the success of the Blumhouse production model, it’s possible that the Fangoria style of film distribution may have simply been ahead of its time.
Founded in 1979, Fangoria quickly shifted gears to become a must-read magazine for both horror fans and professionals. At its height, the fan-nicknamed Fango ran an awards show called the Golden Chainsaws, a radio talk program, a short-lived line of horror comics, and a couple of different companies involved with the film industry, in addition to the magazine. It hit rough waters in the 2010s like most of the rest of the print industry, however, and made an unsuccessful attempt to switch to a digital format in 2015. It was subsequently acquired by Dallas Sonnier via Cinestate in early 2018 before Ansley and Goel bought Fangoria outright in August of 2020.
Fangoria‘s print edition returned last October as a quarterly magazine. Its next issue has yet to be officially announced, after its previous issue focused heavily on Blumhouse’s 2020 body-swap horror film Freaky.
Source: Tara Ansley|LinkedIn
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