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Washington Post
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Chase Sui Wonders is having a summer of horror. Intentionally.
It must be terrifying to step into the lead role of a popular horror franchise, especially for an up-and-coming actress. Apparently, this is no less true if your name is Chase Sui Wonders and you came to 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' with experience in the genre. But the latest star in the IKWYDLS franchise says it helped to have a fan in the director's chair and a famous mentor on set.
BBC News
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
I Know What You Did Last Summer: Why 2025 is big for horror
Lights down, armrest gripped, teeth clenched - just an average evening at the cinema for a horror film genre is having a great year in 2025, with the top three examples - Sinners, Final Destination: Bloodlines and 28 Years Later - taking a total of £41.3m ($55.6m) in the compared with £32.1m ($43.1m) for the eight biggest horrors released last year, according to Box Office North America, scary movies have accounted for 17% of ticket purchases this year - up from 11% in 2024 and 4% a decade ago, according to a report from the Reuters news agency."Right now it feels like we're in the renaissance of horror," Chase Sui Wonders, one of the stars of I Know What You Did Last Summer (IKWYDLS), tells BBC Newsbeat."Everyone's going to theatres watching horror movies." The small screen's also helping to switch us on to new releases. According to data provided by TikTok, there's been an rise in horror-related videos globally on the app in the past 12 said 10.7m people used the horror hashtag - an increase of 38% - while HorrorTok rose 40% to tags aren't exclusively used on movie-related content, but TikTok said it had noticed a spike in videos using them during the Cannes Film Festival in May. While the figures for the past year could suggest a horror explosion, long-time fans argue the popularity hasn't crept up on us out of nowhere. Ash Millman, a journalist and presenter who specialises in covering horror, says the genre's success has been more of a slow-burn than a the last 10 years, she says, it's been gathering more critical and commercial says the success of artier efforts such as Hereditary, from studio A24, and crowd pleasers from horror specialists Ash does admit that this year has been a particularly good one for fans."It's got a bit of everything for everyone," she says. "We have sequels, then amazing new things like Sinners."I do think we're going to be talking about 2025 for years to come."Ash points out that the genre has constantly been fed by producers of smaller-scale indie productions, but the number of major releases this year is notable."I think blockbuster horror has become a thing again," she says. "People want to go to the cinema, they want to see it on the big screen, they want to be scared." Since the Covid-19 pandemic, when streaming films at home increased, Hollywood has been struggling to get people back into cinemas. Horror movies, which tend to be relatively cheap to make, seem to be bucking the trend, and IKWYDLS is the latest big studio release hoping to do the same. Its director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson tells Newsbeat the feeling of watching with an audience is hard to replicate on your sofa."I think it's the collective experience of being scared," she says. "It's so fun. Everybody wants to go to the movies with their friends and jump and scream and have a good time."IKWYDLS is a retread of the cult 1997 slasher movie about a group of friends who agree to cover up a tragic accident, only to be pursued a year later by an anonymous killer known as the original came out in October - the traditional "spooky season" window for big horror releases. But IKWYDLS cast member Jonah Hauer-King says he thinks the new version won't feel out of place in July."Counter-intuitively, though it is frightening and scary, there is something feel-good about this kind of film," he says."It doesn't take itself too seriously and it is a bit of a wild ride, so it feels like a summer popcorn film with the scares and with the thrills." Jonah thinks there is also a deeper reason for the appeal of horror, too."I think at the moment people want to go to the cinema for a bit of escapism, forget about things and have a bit of fun," he agrees, and says times of "chaos and uncertainty" in the wider world tend to boost the genre."I think that's always a big festering ground for horror to make statements," she says."I feel like horror is a reflection of society but gives us a bit of control over it."Usually you see people kind of battling against a great evil and overcoming it in blockbuster horror, where we get a nice wrapped-up ending."And I think that's a really nice form of escapism and a way of kind of moving past these horrible things going on in the world." Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.
Cosmopolitan
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
What Is Gooning? The Internet's Latest Obsession, Explained.
When we asked Chase Sui Wonders for her best relationship advice and she answered 'gooning on the first date' in her new Cosmo Quiz, I somehow doubt the I Know What You Did Last Summer star knew it would spark one of the most impassioned editorial debates the Cosmo conference rooms have seen in recent history. Late one afternoon, the Thursday before the Fourth of July holiday weekend, when the rest of the U.S. workforce was already checked out and/or blacked out, several members of Team Cosmo convened to discuss some of the most pressing questions of our time. What is gooning? What does it mean? Okay, but what does it really mean? Is anyone actually saying it—and what do they mean when they do? Is it a real thing or an internet trend—a controversial kink or an ironic bit of Gen Z slang? Most importantly, what do we think about it at Cosmo, given our decades of authority on all things sex and relationships? We did reach a consensus: Gooning is apparently many things to many different people. But at its most fundamental level, 'gooning' refers to the act of prolonged masturbation without reaching orgasm, often for hours on end and usually involving copious porn consumption. 'Gooners often enter a trancelike state—referred to as the 'goon state'—from being so close to climax and then pulling back right before they cum,' explains Zachary Zane, a sex and relationships expert for Grindr. Use of the term online dates back to at least 2005, but both the word 'gooning' and the act it describes seem to have gained popularity within niche internet sex communities in the 2010s, Zach Sweat, managing editor at Know Your Meme, tells Cosmo. In more recent years, however, gooning has entered the mainstream, spawning memes and explainers, generating discourse, and ultimately cementing its place in the lexicon of 2020s slang, which is what brings us all here today. This, as anyone who's been even Somewhat Online long enough will know, is pretty much a textbook example of what inevitably happens when an obscure internet thing becomes a mainstream internet thing: Its meaning evolves (or arguably devolves) as it gets filtered through various phases of virality. At this point, there really is no simple answer to the question 'What is gooning?' So here, instead, is a comprehensive guide to the term, its origins and evolution, and the various ways it's being used and/or potentially misused online today, because such is life on the internet. At its most basic definition, 'Gooning is the act of masturbating, typically for hours, until you reach a kind of meditative state,' explains sex and relationships psychotherapist Gigi Engle, a sex expert for 3Fun. It's often compared to an extreme form of edging—a sex act in which someone is repeatedly brought close to orgasm (either by themselves or a partner) without actually reaching it. 'Essentially, you continuously stimulate yourself for hours on end without reaching a climax in order to experience the 'goon state,'' Engle explains. Gooning is distinct from edging in that the latter can be done either solo or with a partner and may also involve a Dom/sub dynamic if one partner is using edging as a form of orgasm control over the other, while gooning is specifically an act of masturbation. But the main difference between gooning and edging comes down to context and intention. 'With edging, you're trying to gain a stronger and more robust mind-body connection,' says Engle. Whereas gooning is kind of the opposite: an attempt to zone out mentally and enter a trancelike state of porn-induced brain rot. The term itself is 'derived from the earlier slang 'goon,' meaning 'stupid person,'' Sweat explains, highlighting the emphasis on mental mush associated with the goon state. 'It's called 'gooning' because gooners often look silly, like a goon, when masturbating,' says Zane. 'It also relates to the 'gooner face' gooners make while gooning—a sign that you're in a trance and experiencing extreme pleasure. Gooners often look somewhat ridiculous: eyes crossed, mouth agape, tongue out.' Engle notes that not all gooners necessarily goon with brain rot in mind—some may very well find the experience mentally stimulating in some capacity. But in general, gooning is associated with a surrender to mindless self-pleasure. In this sense, the term carries something of a derogatory connotation, but it's one self-proclaimed gooners embrace. For some, an element of humiliation or degradation may even be part of the appeal, says sex coach Amanda Dames, founder of The Kink Consultant, adding that many online Dommes and cam girls tease and make fun of their gooner clients for being the gooners they are. Gooning often involves porn and may be done in 'goon caves,' which are dedicated locations sometimes decked out in pornography where gooners get their goon on. As a kink, gooning has a Very Online identity, with platforms like Reddit and FetLife hosting gooning communities that are home to millions of gooners. One of the most popular, the subreddit, r/GOONED, has skyrocketed from 900,000 members in 2023 to 2.4 million today, Sweat tells Cosmo. Gooners are (stereo)typically young men, and gooning seems to have some (nonexclusive) ties to the gay community—or at least to be particularly popular among gay men. 'As I understand it, gooning as a community was exclusively masc-gay until it crossed over with porn addiction fetishism in the late '00s, most notably on Tumblr,' a writer who goes by 'gooncultist' on X and Substack told Dazed. While none of the experts I spoke to for this story were aware of gooning having any specific origins within the LGBTQIA+ community, Zane notes that 'anecdotally, most self-identified gooners are gay or bisexual men.' He attributes this partly to the internet-centric nature of the community. 'Gay men will video-chat with other gooners, watching them stroke, and then also watch porn together. They may also goon with other men in real life, stroking one another but delaying climax for a long period of time,' he explains, adding that guys who goon together are often referred to as 'batebros.' Still, while the gooning community seems to be a predominantly male one, Engle notes that anyone of any gender can goon if they want to. Female/femme-identifying gooners even have their own subreddit, r/GoonetteHub, which boasts over 500,000 members. The exact origins of gooning may always remain a beautiful mystery, but the world's foremost internet culture archivists at Know Your Meme trace the earliest known use of the term online to a 2005 Urban Dictionary entry that defined gooning as, 'the act of…getting so into masturbating that the dude becomes at total goon; becomes stupid on his own cock.' According to Sweat, this initial use of the term to describe chronic masturbators/porn watchers continued to evolve and spread online over the next decade but remained relatively esoteric. 'The fetish itself seems to have become more prominent in the 2010s,' Sweat explains, citing an increase in searches for 'gooning' per Google Trends and the creation of the aforementioned r/GOONED subreddit in 2019. But the mainstream Goon Boom that brings us all here today didn't kick off until around 2020, when gooning started making its way into memes and a handful of explainers from publications like the now-defunct MEL Magazine, which reported on the trend in November 2020. 'It then saw organic memeification similar to how most other slang evolves: It starts in more underground communities, which then become more popular, eventually breaking into the mainstream through usage elsewhere online, especially via memes,' Sweat explains. Google searches for the term began to spike in 2023, per Google Trends data, prompting a flurry of explainers from mainstream publications. By the following year, the gooning era we're all living through now was in full swing. As is the case with pretty much anything that gains a certain level of traction online, gooning's entry into mainstream consciousness has generated its share of handwringing and internet discourse. Various headlines have warned about the 'dangers of gooning,' with criticism generally suggesting that gooning can cause erectile dysfunction and/or that the trend fetishizes 'porn addiction.' It's worth noting there's quite a bit of disagreement over whether 'porn addiction' is a real thing. But many experts, including Engle, hold that unlike other substance use disorders, 'porn addiction' is not a recognized diagnosis and is often weaponized by sex-negative individuals and entities to shame and stigmatize porn, sex, masturbation, and sex work while promoting conservative values rooted in religious/patriarchal mores. As for the erectile dysfunction of it all, I am not a doctor and encourage anyone curious about the potential medical risks of gooning to consult a licensed professional. But strictly from a cultural criticism perspective, I might suggest these warnings are more reflective of clickbait by way of fearmongering than earnest public health concerns. This is not to say that porn use in general or gooning specifically can never be problematic, but if it is, I'd argue it's more of a personal issue than the societal ill some critics make it out to be. 'If a man spends 20 hours a week masturbating, I could see why you might think this is maladaptive, obsessive, or addictive behavior,' says Zane. And the truth is, it could be! 'If a man is calling out of work because he's gooning, not seeing friends, shirking his responsibilities, or it is in some way negatively impacting other aspects of his life, then yes, gooning could be considered an issue and he should evaluate his relationship with it,' Zane adds. 'But if you spend your lazy Sunday afternoon gooning all day? Live and let live. It's not a 'problem.'' Meanwhile, on the other side of the spectrum, there seems to be some concern that, due to the emphasis on not reaching orgasm, gooning may mirror an alt-right ethos that promotes semen retention as a method of 'preserving masculinity' and is linked to incel culture and other 'red-pilled' corners of the internet. If gooning has been appropriated in these spaces, it wouldn't be the first time a kink fell into the wrong hands. But in my research, I haven't seen any overwhelming evidence to suggest gooning has crossed over to the dark side in any significant way—at least not yet. Overall, I think it's safe to say that gooning—as both a practice and a cultural concept—is simply not that deep. In general, Sweat says most gooning memes and mentions on social media are still using the term within the context of the kink/sex act it describes, if often humorously. However, others have suggested 'gooning' has taken on new meanings as a slang word in recent years. 'As seriously as gooning can be taken for pleasure-seekers and porn performers, gooning is also widely considered entirely unserious by people who use it as a colloquial saying,' journalist Quispe López wrote in an explainer for Them. 'Use of it in slang is often sprawling, liberal, and not related to sex at all—probably because it's just fun to say.' According to López, 'gooning' can be used as slang to express excitement or intense interest in something, while other uses lean into the absurdity of the word, deploying it more or less ironically to refer to more or less anything. Meanwhile, a Dazed explainer by Brit Dawson notes that the term has also taken on new meaning as 'an insult akin to 'loser.'' So, like I said, gooning can mean different things to different people. Which brings me back to Chase Sui Wonders' advice about 'gooning on the first date.' The newly annointed Cosmo girl and Emmy-nominated actor could have meant any number of things! Was she seriously pitching extended mutual masturbation as a first-date idea? We'd, of course, support her in that! Was she just saying something silly to be silly? It's also possible! Perhaps, like the true meaning of gooning itself, it's best left a beautiful mystery.
Cosmopolitan
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Actor Chase Sui Wonders Takes the Cosmo Quiz
Since charming the internet (and us, personally) with her razor-sharp timing and effortless cool in The Studio on Apple TV+, Chase Sui Wonders has cemented herself as the kind of actor who makes being funny, stylish, and just a little mysterious look easy. Now, she's stepping into final girl territory in the I Know What You Did Last Summer legacy sequel—yes, the iconic slasher is back, and so is your fear of group chats. The movie hits theaters July 18, so there's still time to prep your scream queen 'fits and brush up on your Silver Springs lore. During her press tour, Chase took some time to fill out our extremely serious Cosmo Quiz, responding with wit, whimsy, and a level of charm that made our entire office fall even deeper in love. She is chaotic on a first date (gooning, anyone?), loves herself some DJ Khaled, and might be our generation's most chill It Girl. No notes. Just vibes Relationship status: First-ever celebrity crush: Fat BastardCurrent celebrity crush: Dr. Evil If I could put anyone on the cover of Cosmo, I'd put: My nephews Hometown: DetroitMost money I've spent on a date:My best relationship advice: Gooning on the first dateMy worst relationship advice: Not gooning on the first date Person from The Studio I text the most:Ted SaranosDid you steal anything from The Studio set. If so, what?Memories to last a lifetime Person from I Know What You Did Last Summer I text the most:The person I would get most starstruck by is: DJ Khaled My friends know I'm in a bad mood if them do the cinnamon challenge If Madelyn Cline, Lola Tung, Sarah Pidgeon, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and I were in a girl band together, we'd be called: The Freddie Princess Seth Rogen make a good boss in real life: Styled by Jessica Neises. Hair by Clay Nielsen. Makeup by Gita Bass at The Wall Group. Manicure by Yukie Miyakawa for Chanel.
Time of India
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'I Know What You Did Last Summer' to release soon: Meet the star cast
The 1997 classic 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' is set to have a blazing sequel, where the horrific incident is going to haunt the friends again. The film would be released on July 18, 2025, and the old stars are joined by the dazzling new members to take the notch up. The synopsis of the film states, 'When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret. A year later ... as one by one the friends are stalked by a killer ... they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help,' according to People. Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson , the new star cast is Madelyn Cline , Chase Sui Wonders , Jonah Hauer-King, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and many more. The cast who would be reprising their roles are Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James. The cast of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' Madelyn Cline, who is renowned for her role in 'Outer Banks,' has previously starred in 2022's 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,' in addition to making appearances in 'Stranger Things' and 'The Originals.' In her personal life, she made headlines for being in a relationship with her 'Outer Banks' co-star, Chase Stokes, and Pete Davidson . Chase Sui Wonders, who is renowned for her role in 'Genera+ion,' has appeared in 'On The Rocks,' 'Betty,' 'Bodies Bodies Bodies,' and more. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Free P2,000 GCash eGift UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo In her personal life, Chase also made headlines for having an on-and-off relationship with Pete Davidson before calling it quits in August 2023. Freddie Prinze Jr., who is renowned for his role in 'She's All That,' has been a previous cast member of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' On the set, he met his co-star turned wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar , and they also co-starred in 'Scooby-Doo.' 'They went through a pretty traumatic experience, if they were able to survive that and stay together, they'd be a better couple than me and my wife in real life. Maybe they toughed it out, it's Hollywood, they like happy endings,' he said about his character while having a conversation with Entertainment Tonight.
