Actress Danielle Panabaker is making quite a name for herself in the horror genre. She’s worked on the remakes of “Friday the 13th” and “The Crazies” and recently finished working with famed director John Carpenter on his new project,” “The Ward.”
“‘The Ward’ is about six young women living in an insane asylum,” Panabaker tells SciFi Wire. “They are slowly disappearing, one by one. It’s one character’s journey, Kristen [Heard], to find out what’s happening. My character is one of the young women who’s more on the promiscuous side. She’s the flirtatious sort of attention-grabber of the bunch, which was really fun. I really enjoyed doing something a little different.”
Set in the ’60s, the movie gave the actress her first taste of period work. “It was something I’d wanted to do for a long time,” says Panabaker. “It has a very different color scheme to it. Researching the wardrobe and that sort of thing was also useful, just to understand how conservative everything was at that point in time.”
As she’s said in the past, Panabaker says she doesn’t mind being labeled a scream queen if it means she gets to work on projects like “Friday the 13th” and working with Carpenter.
“You know, the irony is, when I first started working with John, being a big nerd, I Netflix’d him,” says Panabaker with a giggle. “There was a documentary on him, and Romero was actually interviewed about John. They’re both such iconic grandfathers of horror. They really pioneered the genre. I’m thrilled to have been able to work with both of them.”
“[Carpenter] has such command of the set,” Panabaker adds. “He’s so very clear and specific about exactly what he wants. I really loved it.”
What a blast that would be!!!