Thomas Dekker (right) in All About Evil

Is 22-year-old Thomas Dekker modelling himself on James Franco? He might not yet be filling galleries with questionable artwork, but lately he’s been working with drag queens and has a fondness for playing gay. He also shares Franco’s love of mixing the commercial mainstream with more Avant-garde projects.

So the equally brooding young star of Heroes, A Nightmare On Elm Street and The Sarah Connor Chronicles plays a bisexual film student in Gregg Araki’s upcoming Kaboom and further into the future will portray TV’s first real-life gay character in Cinema Verite.

His latest movie release is a little more to the fringes: he’s currently co-starring in something called All About Evil: The Peaches Christ Experience in 4-D! The best I can describe the movie is a camp, exploitation horror take on Sweeney Todd set in a run-down movie theater – with drag queens.

Dekker plays a teenage horror fanatic who spends all his spare time at his local indie cinema watching gory films. When other regular audience members start disappearing he suspects the bloody murders on screen might be less fictionalised than he first thought…

All About Evil is directed by Joshua Grannel, who also goes by the stage persona Peaches Christ and runs horror-themed nights in San Francisco which mix movie screenings and live performance.

The film is currently touring the US – check dates – and will be screening in New York on July 30th & 31st for an extravaganza of music, perfomance, film and horror.