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Cannibal Jack-O-Lanterns are My Favorite Jack-O-Lanterns
Halloween is just around the corner and as I sit deciding whether or not I’m going to carve a pumpkin into a festive Jack-O-Lantern this year, I can’t help but think about some of my favorite designs.
When I was a kid, Jack-O-Lanterns were pretty formulaic. You might see small variations but a couple of goofy eyes and a wicked grin pretty much covered the spectrum of what I saw in small town East Texas.
Nowadays, pumpkin carving is an art form all its own with competitions across the country and beyond. The more creative the better.
Naturally, as more people got involved, themes emerged. You’ll find pumpkins with everything from superheroes to full scale horror movie scenes carved into them. Honestly, it’s pretty amazing.
But the ones that I have loved the most are the cannibal jack-o-lanterns. I’m not entirely sure what that says about me, but I don’t question it too much because there are few things more entertaining to me than a pumpkin chowing down on its kin.
Perfectly normal, right?
With that in mind, I decided to go looking for some of my favorite cannibal jack-o-lanterns online to share here. Let me know which ones are you favorites in the comments below!
You’re invited to a barbecue!
This guy showed up on the lawn of Joyce Dragonosky and Laureen Callo back in 2010 and he looks like he’s having the time of his life!
The Messy Eater
This guy is a mess, but he seems to be enjoying those pumpkin guts an awful lot!
Last Chance to Escape
I love the look of shock on the little guys face. Has he accepted his fate or does he have one last chance at escape?
When your fellow pumpkins just aren’t enough…
What’s a guy to do when he’s eaten everything else in the pumpkin patch? Turn on the patrons, of course!
Completely over it…
I don’t know. Something about this guy reminds me of some old farmers I knew who were over just about anything and everything and they’d sit on their front porch chawing…
So happy…
This is one happy looking little cannibal to me.
Happy Hannibal
Remember that scene in Hannibal where Anthony Hopkins feeds Ray Liotta some of his own brains? So did the folks who carved this pumpkin.
Just a Bite
This is the guy who is always grazing at the pot luck table before everyone else is ready to eat!
When you’ve had too much…
Of course, even cannibal jack-o-lanterns have to avoid overeating on Halloween. No one wants to end up here, right?
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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
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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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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.
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