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The Week In WTF Real-Life Horror
This is the third installment of our new weekly series about some of the crazy real-life horror stories from the week prior. We often cover these types of stories as it is, but this is kind of a round-up. It’s not necessarily a comprehensive look at all of the world’s horror of the week, but a collection of mostly oddball stories from across the web. Enjoy.
The Man Who Ate His Girlfriend
An Indiana man stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death, then mutilated her body, and ate various parts, including organs. Louisville’s Courier Journal has the story.
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Suicide By Crocodile
There have been some extremely gruesome suicide stories in the news lately. We recently told you about the guy who decapitated himself in broad daylight by tying a chain from a pole to his neck, and driving away. Now, here’s a story about a woman in Thailand, who committed suicide by jumping into a pit filled with several hundred crocodiles – also in public.
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The Clown Mask At Night
A woman reportedly shot a teen-aged kid, who was wearing an ICP mask and standing over her son with a knife in their home in the middle of the night. She didn’t know until later that it was a kid who had been friends with the son.
Abusive Magician Molests The Possessed
I don’t think I can sum this up any better than the report’s intro, which says, “A man posing as a magician has been arrested after allegedly convincing a woman and her daughter they were ‘possessed’ and sexually abusing them to ‘rid their bodies of demons’.”
Drive-Thru Funeral
A funeral home in Michigan is letting loved ones pay their respects to corpses as they’re tilted toward a drive-thru window. Apparently this isn’t the first one of these, but still, WTF? Read about it here.
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Hearses In Hell
Speaking of corpses in Michigan, there is a place called Hell in the state, and they had a hearse parade there. Because why wouldn’t you have a hearse parade in Hell? In fact, it’s an annual event.
The Giant Squid
A 770-pound Squid with “tentacles like fire hoses and eyes like dinner plates” was hauled out of the ocean near Antarctica, so that’s fairly frightening.
The Gimp Man of Essex
Oh, just a guy dressed like The Gimp (or Zipperface if you prefer) raising money for charity. He’s been hanging out in the streets, and is donating to charity every time someone posts a picture of him on his Facebook page. He says he’s not trying to scare people, which probably means that he is.
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The Haunted Auction House
In an empty room at an auction house, a cabinet’s glass doors apparently opened, and shattered by themselves. This was caught on video.
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The Xenomorphs Are Already Here
Some guy found the skeleton and nest of something that looks remotely like an alien from the Alien(s) saga. He says he has no idea what it was, but that he threw it away. It’s unclear if there was any evidence of acid blood eating through the floor of his cabinet.
We’ll end on a couple of odd celebrity stories.
Lindsay and Whitney
A report came out this past week that Lindsay Lohan handled Whitney Houston’s dead body, as she was working in a morgue at the time of her death. Just weird.
Knock, Knock – The Preview?
Finally, actor Keanu Reeves awoke in the middle of the night to an apparently mentally disturbed woman in his house. This is strange because his Speed co-star Sandra Bullock had a similar (though more threatening) situation occur a while back. It’s also interesting that Reeves stars in an Eli Roth movie called Knock, Knock, which is supposed to involve him being terrorized by two women. The film is in post-production.
See the previous week’s WTF stories here.
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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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