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Will Corey Feldman Appear in Death House as Tommy Jarvis?
Horror fans everywhere are counting the days until the release of Entertainment Factory’s Death House, but a recent interview with the highly anticipated film’s writer and director Harrison Smith touched on a teaser that got this writer’s wheels spinning.
Before we go any further, it should be stressed that none of what follows was stated in any way by Mr. Smith. Rather it is pure conjecture based on what the filmmaker hinted at in the interview coupled with an open letter that Smith wrote to New Line Cinema in the latter part of 2015. Said letter outlined the fact that Smith had attended a meeting where he would have been asked to write a first script if the Friday the 13th film every came to be but the rights were so “parceled” and “convoluted” between New Line and Paramount, it was dead in the water.
Smith also pointed out the ways that reuniting Jason Voorhees and Tommy Jarvis would be a “moneymaker” because it would be tantamount to a “spinoff without the stigma of a remake” and not “about hunting Jason,” but rather “exploring Tommy and his world.”
With that said, let’s start delving, shall we?
In an interview with Horror Geek Life the day after Thanksgiving, Smith was asked whether Death House held a “surprise or two up (its) sleeve” with regard to film appearances that hadn’t been announced. Fans already know about Kane Hodder and Tony Todd and Dee Wallace, but for a film featuring a veritable who’s who of the genre, surely there might be a cast member or two whom the audience would not be expecting but would get the blood flowing, so to speak.
Smith’s response was intriguing to say the least.
You are on to something very solid there, yes. There are so many surprises in this in that way that you’re talking about and then, in addition, if you watch the credits at the end, there is a mid-credit sequence, not a post-credit, a mid-credit sequence that, all I can tell you is the cameo of the performer, since you’re a Friday the 13th fan and what he brings into the scene, you will flip because you’re going to know exactly what it is.
Note that Smith said “he.”
Now, Hodder is Death House’s star, and seeing as the definitive Jason is already playing a separate character, it seems too obvious (and cheesy) that Hodder would simply stumble upon a hock. Walt Gorney passed many years ago, and for as glorious as it would be for Ted White to make an appearance of any kind, he’s probably a bit too old old to have anything to do with the masked maniac at this point.
However, when one takes Smith’s letter to New Line into consideration, things begin to make sense.
Smith stressed that continuous rehashing has damaged the Friday the 13th franchise, but also that beyond Jason and Pamela Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis was the only memorable character of the series, and specifically pointed to Corey Feldman’s original performance from The Final Chapter.
Taken a step further, Smith stated that Jarvis provided a “formidable nemesis” with a dark side who would have been haunted by his experience in 1984 and not convinced that Jason was truly eradicated. Smith referred to the idea as a “spin-off” that could and should willfully ignore the films and events post-Final Chapter ala Halloween: H20 and breathe new life into the saga while sparing fans yet another facsimile.
Friday fans would tend to agree.
Once again, Hodder is the star of Smith’s Death House, knows Feldman (who has been pitching the idea of his return as Jarvis for years), and Hodder would appear to have already been down with Smith’s vision.
In an “HBC B-Movie” interview with Hodder in 2013, this writer touched on the idea of Hodder’s return as the Camp Crystal Lake marauder in a film where he would be reunited with Feldman to pick up the Jarvis story line, to which Hodder replied:
I know Corey from doing appearances together and as a horror fan, I think it would be cool as hell to have a Friday the 13th movie, bring me back and Corey Feldman back. Now, how the story is written, it has to be pretty creative and everything but just stepping out of the fact that I played Jason, I think it would be cool as hell to see me come back and Corey come back.
To Smith’s letter and Hodder’s existing belief in the concept we now add the revelation that Death House will boast of a mid-credits sequence with a cameo sure to make Friday fans flip.
Once again, this has nothing to do with anything Harrison Smith said, it is very much a theory, but this writer is leaning toward Death House’s mid-credits surprise being Corey Feldman reprising his role as Tommy Jarvis.
Whether it’s Feldman at the facility or simply a car making its way into the country where Feldman emerges to reveal of shot of a camp and / or cabin, it would indeed drive Friday fans wild. Of course, licensing and copyright always enter the equation, but there are plenty of ways to portray a scenario without getting into specifics while the audience completely comprehends what the film is attempting to communicate.
What’s more, such a mid-credit sequence would take Smith’s open letter to another level by providing tangible evidence that Smith’s perception with regard to the Jason / Jarvis story line has legs. Friday fans would flip, the internet buzz would be insane and the clamoring to bring such a concept to fruition could potentially (on a smaller scale) rival the demand for Machete following its faux trailer from Grindhouse.
One last time, none of the preceding came from Harrison Smith, it is simply the rambling theory of this writer. However, the more one ponders, the more cold, Crystal Lake water it seems to hold.
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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.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
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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.”
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