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Columbine.  We don’t need to say ‘The Columbine high school shootings’ or ‘The Columbine massacre’ to understand what we mean by just a single world.   Columbine.  An event that still resonates with today’s world as fresh as it did 20 years ago.

Now the school shooting, as well as three others, have been immortalized in Bstroy’s 2020 spring fashion collection.

The four hoodies each sport the name of a school where real life shootings have occurred as well as devastated the communities around them; Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, and Stoneman Douglas.  When combined, these four school shootings took nearly 100 lives by their shooters.

If these sweatshirts were not insulting enough, the designer added bullet holes riddling each garment.  A pure sickening and tasteless idea that somehow made it to their spring fashion collection.

The Internet had no interest in hiding their disgust at the dystopian clothing line’s release.  Viewers, including many of the survivors and their families of the massacres, voiced their outrage through social media.  Words such as “revolting,” “disgusting,” and “callous” were used to describe the clothing.

Kyle Kashuv, a teenage survivor from the Stoneman Douglas shooting wrote, “I would just like to say, what actual the hell is wrong with you.  Goddamn monetizing off a school shooting.”

Bstory’s founders Brick Owens and Dieter “Du” Grams, have not issued an apology for their revolting fashion.  However, Brick Owens did upload a picture of a card explaining the bizarre inspiration behind the line of clothing.

“Sometimes life can be painfully ironic.  Like the irony of dying violently in a place you considered to be a safe, controlled environment, like school.  We are reminded all the time of life’s fragility, shortness, and unpredictability yet we are also reminded of its infinite potential.  It is this push and pull that creates the circular motion that is the cycle of life.  Nirvana is the goal we hope to reach through meditation and healthy practices that counter our destructive habits.  Samsara is the cycle we must transcend to reach Nirvana.”

So… make of that what you will.

As of the time this article has been published, each of the four hoodies pictured above are still on Brick Owen’s Instagram.  Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Stoneman Douglas are still on Bstory’s Instagram.

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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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.

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“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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.”

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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