In the new horror movie “Opus,” we are introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the ’90s, with 38 No. 1 hits and albums as big as “Thriller,” “Hotel California” and “Nebraska.”

Grae Drake is at Graumann's Egyptian theater in Los Angeles talking to the stars of Opus about what makes celebrities fascinating. Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, director/writer Mark Anthony Green,

Malkovich tells Consequence that "I've done all kinds of unlikely things, but that was really a singular experience." How John Malkovich Manipulates the Music in Opus

Dorchester’s Ayo Edebiri plays a young journalist who’s invited to the desert compound of Malkovich’s cultish character, Moretti.

Though not quite wild enough. Malkovich plays a reclusive music superstar, but the cult-of-celebrity satire of “Opus” never quite sorts out its thriller elements.