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All Things That Go Bump In The Night: Top 10 Movie Monsters
Be sure to check in your closets and under your bed, you never know just what is lurking deep in the shadows and today we will be looking at the top ten most memorable movie monsters. With no shortage of macabre creatures to choose from let’s dive in head first, and just hope that we still make it out in one piece on the other side.
10. Feast: Feast Beast
The Feast trilogy is a personal favorite of mine and if you haven’t heard of the movies, then do yourself a favor and track them down. All three entries to the series boast fantastic monster design and practical effects as well. The acting may be a bit spotty here and there, but the real draw of the trilogy is the monster effects, and that front never disappoints.
While just what the Feast Beasts are never explained or explored, and characters are killed off left and right, Feast and it’s two sequels are bloody great times, even more so when viewed with a group of friends.
9. Godzilla Series: Godzilla
It should go without saying that of course Godzilla the King of Monsters is going to make an appearance on this list. Godzilla has always been a personal favorite of mine since childhood, because even children can watch with delight as giant kaiju lay waste to countless cities and do battle with other giant monsters.
Godzilla has changed sides throughout the many years that he has appeared on the big screen, sometimes fighting to save the people of Japan, other times looking only to destroy anything that crosses his path. Throughout every entry including the western entries one thing has stayed the same, Godzilla is the king of all Kaiju.
8. Pumpkinhead Series: Pumpkinhead
The Pumpkinhead movies are not for everyone, each entry in the series revolving around the central theme of seeking revenge and having to pay the price. Whether or not you consider yourself a fan of the Pumpkinhead series everyone can agree on one thing. Pumpkinhead’s design is easily one of the most memorable movie monster makeup effects to ever grace the big screen.
Pumpkinhead’s design does in many ways mirror the design of the Xenomorph’s from the Alien franchise, and that is because Stan Winston worked on both Aliens and Pumpkinhead. Winston brought his uniquely macabre charm to both the designs of the Alien Queen and the Demon of Vengeance, bringing to life two incredibly bizarre and unsettling movie monsters.
7. Killer Klowns From Outer Space: Killer Klowns
Everyone under the sun has at the very least head the name Killer Klowns From Outer Space once in their life. That alone should be an indicator as to the weight that the Killer Klown’s legacy carries, and not to mention the uniquely strange makeup that is immediately recognizable even at just a glance.
While the actual Klowns themselves may seem to be playful in nature, their intentions are nothing other than sinister. Looking to spread havoc and mayhem as they collect humans for later consumption, the killer Klowns find ways to off their prey in various and amusing scenes. Killer Klowns From Outer Space are easily some of the most recognizable and memorable movie monsters to ever have existed.
6. Aliens: Xenomorph Queen
That is one ugly mother… erm let’s get back on track here. The alien queen is, for me at least, the most movie monster to ever be spawned from the Alien franchise. The Queen is the one calling the shots, leading the xenomorph horde and birthing an army to consume everything in its path.
If it weren’t for Stan Winston’s amazing contribution who knows what we may have gotten in the Queen’s place? Thankfully the Queen design that was put into the final product is memorable, and for many fans of Aliens, the best part of the entire movie. To this day nothing has quite topped the reveal of the Queen in Aliens for me.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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