The Boulet Brothers are back this Halloween season with the arrival of “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans” Season Two on Shudder and AMC+, premiering today, and the All-Star competitors are out for blood.
Fourteen of the fiercest drag artists from past seasons (most of them top three finalists and fan favorites) are back to prove themselves in a competition that won’t just challenge them in every way, from performance art to intense fear-based tests. That the returning players are hungrier than ever to earn the season’s big prize also means that the stakes and drama are higher than ever.
The Boulet Brothers, Dracmorda and Swanthula, teased what to expect from Season Two when speaking with Bloody Disgusting, including some of the emotional fallout glimpsed in the trailer below.
“I think for us, it started with quality, right?” Dracmorda says of casting a season of returning players and big personalities. “We want Titans to be a once-every-couple of years, just epic season of the best of Dragula. When we started casting, we originally picked from the top 3. So, people who had been in the top 3 from Season 1 all the way to Season 6. Then, secondly, we looked for people who were iconic to the brand. When I think of Dragula, Abhora’s face comes to mind. To me, people like that had to be included.
“Then lastly, we looked for people who we felt had a lot of star quality, but who didn’t stay around long enough for the audience to see that. We had a lot of faith in them, and we wanted to give them the opportunity to come back and try to prove themselves, which is pretty intimidating. If you went home earlier, and you’re coming back to compete against mostly the top 3 people. I can imagine that’s pretty intimidating.”
Keeping competitors further on their toes this season are a few rule changes and the hosts’ trademark ability to toss unexpected obstacles and challenges in their path.
Dracmorda teases some of what’s ahead. “The cast has a little more power than they do in a normal season, meaning to eliminate their fellow competitors, so that’s a little difference of a rule change. They never know what they’re gonna face with this one, because, like I said, we added everything from every iteration of the show, so it might be an extermination today, a fright feat, you might be on our new and improved Ghostly gallows that drop through the floor. We keep them on their toes, for sure.”
The new twist on elimination is sure to lead to conflict in a season packed with larger-than-life personas all competing for the same title. “Oh, there is mega drama,” Swanthula says of this season. “There’s drama this season that has never happened on the show before, and I hope it kind of never happens again, but it’s gonna be something that people are gonna think and talk about, I’m sure.“
Dramorda adds, “There’s definitely a moment where some of the cast forget that they’re mic’d at all times, and it’s in the trailer. There’s a hot mic moment where the two of us actually get involved. It’s intense. It’s very intense, so that’s a memorable moment. I would say in episode one, there’s a moment that I did not see coming, and it is a fight that I would have never predicted between two people that I would have never predicted, and the ramifications, I don’t want to spoil it, but I was shocked, I’ll put it that way.”
If the trailer gives you any concerns for just how intense the drama might get this season, Dracmorda takes it a step further, referring to the competitors: “I‘ll just tease that there are some people that you probably will never see again after this season.“
“Well, I actually do make someone cry, so when I say, do it again, like, that’s legitimate,“ Swanthula explains of that trailer moment and this season’s emotional stakes. “And it was kind of shocking. I think this season, I don’t know that I was tested, but I was kind of bitchy, you know? I wasn’t cutting corners. I’m like, this is the Titan season, the show’s been around for a decade. You’d better bring it or you’re going home.”
The good news is that this means that the tell-all episode will return this season, but it’ll come with a twist.
“I can tell you that The Last Supper is definitely happening,“ Dracmorda tells us. “It’s a little different than traditional, because there are stakes to the Last Supper that help decide who makes it onto the finale.“
While Titans Season Two will surely bring the intensity, expect the talent and creativity to match. It is first and foremost a celebration and showcase of performance art, and a tribute to horror as well for the Boulet Brothers.
“I think with Titans, it’s a celebration of things we’ve already done, but I would say every year, for the past couple years, we get inspired by a certain decade of horror, and we try to lean into that. Season Five, we had those black and white, Vampira/Vincent Price intros, where you’re talking directly to the camera, and we were in these haunted settings. Then, even with the Psycho homage at the opener of Season Five. Moving into Season Six, I felt like it was more slasher kind of horror, like ’80s slasher. We tend to look at different decades from horror, and I think we just draw inspiration from the things that we love the most from the horror genre, and if they gel together.“
“The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans” Season Two premieres today; the season premiere is now streaming on Shudder and AMC+.
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