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It’s October, Time to Celebrate the Best of Halloween’s Dr. Loomis
The calendar turned to October over the weekend, which means that what we live and breathe 365 days a year will gloriously surround us for the next month, including AMC’s FearFest and Dr. Samuel Loomis.
And I’m not talking about the contrived character that Rob Zombie tried to force down our collective gullet, but the incomparable Donald Pleasence, who gave us five performances that we loved then, appreciate now and will cherish forever.
From chilling declarations to epic freak-outs, what better time to unleash the very best of everyone’s favorite maniacal doctor? YouTube only had so much to offer, so it it’s missing, the clip was like Michael Myers on Halloween morning, which requires no elaboration.
THE DEVIL’S EYES
Halloween fans can recite it word for word for good reason. It is perhaps the defining moment of the franchise.
EVERYONE’S ENTITLED TO ONE GOOD…LAUGH
Though serious as hell, Loomis still had a sense of humor. Getting busted by Sheriff Brackett, though, is what makes this clip a classic.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT WAS
The expression on Loomis’ face after looking off the balcony is everything.
HE’S WAITING
Two things leap out from this scene that John Carpenter filmed as “carpet footage” for television broadcasts. First, never tell me that silence can’t be deafening and second, this should have been in the original film. But hey, who am I to question the Master of Horror? At least it exists.
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT DEATH IS
When you’ve spent all day trying to convince everyone that you’re not crazy, then shoot your patient of 15 years only to discover that your day ain’t over by a damn site, your tolerance level for bullshit is nil.
I SHOT HIM SIX TIMES!
Convincing and cheesy at the same time. Whichever side of the fence you sit on with regard to this scene, you always land on awesome.
SHOTS FIRED
Hands down the funniest moment in Halloween history. I laugh just as hard now as I did the first time I saw it. Moral of the story: When Dr. Loomis has a light bulb go off in his head and asks you to come about, do what the man says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzpF-jgoyw
THAT LOOK WHEN THE HATERS REALIZE YOU’VE BEEN RIGHT THE WHOLE TIME
Is this clip dubbed in Spanish? Yes, it is. But that’s not the point. Understanding what’s being said is less important than the the contented sarcasm oozing from every one of one Loomis’ pores at 1:15 because he was right. Again.
NOOO!
So you helped what was essentially a firing squad find The Shape, forced him to do “The Monster Mash” and then declared “Michael Myers was in hell.” I believe it was Pablo Bolivar who once said “That is incorrect.”
BECAUSE WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING FOR HALLOWEEN 5
This was the closest I could come to Loomis’s trickery and beatdown of the Haddonfield Hacker.
SAME OLD SHIT, DIFFERENT DAY
By the time Curse rolled around, the good doctor was tired but not done.
FAREWELL OLD FRIEND
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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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