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Could ‘In a Violent Nature’ Birth the Next “Jason Voorhees”?
Sundance has given the world some pretty good disturbing horror films in the past. Movies like Watcher, Talk to Me, and Speak No Evil. At this year’s event, there was one that apparently is going to join the ranks called In a Violent Nature.
Let’s start with the synopsis taken from IMDb, “The horror movie tracks a ravenous zombie creature as it makes its way through a secluded forest.” Sound familiar? Some critics think so.
Collider made a headline for their film review that said Jason Voorhees should “eat his heart out.”
They add: “The festival’s most explosive horror film takes familiar slasher elements, tears them to pieces, and makes a macabre work of gory art in the wreckage.”
The movie borrows a lot from Sean S. Cunningham’s original Friday the 13th, even going so far as to incorporate plot points from some of its sequels, including Part 6, when the hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees is resurrected from his grave by lightening to continue his swath of destruction on nubile immoral teens. In a Violent Nature also has its own lone killer named Johnny, played by Toronto-based actor Ry Barrett.
So is In a Violent Nature an homage to Friday the 13th, or a loving rip-off? According to Collider’s Chase Hutchinson, maybe a bit of both since the film incorporates many of the tropes that were used in ’80s slasher films such as My Bloody Valentine, Halloween, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
But that doesn’t matter because every fan of a good slasher movie, however derivative, rank them higher if the kills are good. Hutchinson implies you won’t have to worry about that part of the storytelling.
“The kills in this film are some of the most bonkers, bloody, and brutal you’ll ever see,” he writes. “It’s the type of film where you’ll go ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen a decapitated head do that before’ in both awe and terror.”
All of the gore might just seem like overkill in the same way Adam Green’s Hatchet movies were. But Hutchinson says director Chris Nash’s technique is a positive addition.
“Nash knows when to be bombastic and when to balance it with a lighter touch, ensuring each cuts deeper. It is grimly funny at times, though no less terrifying because of it.”
There is no news about when In a Violent Nature will be released, but it is a Shudder exclusive so expect to see it on that service soon.
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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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Fede Alvarez Teases ‘Alien: Romulus’ With RC Facehugger
Happy Alien Day! To celebrate director Fede Alvarez who is helming the latest sequel in the Alien franchise Alien: Romulus, got out his toy Facehugger in the SFX workshop. He posted his antics on Instagram with the following message:
“Playing with my favorite toy on set of #AlienRomulus last summer. RC Facehugger created by the amazing team from @wetaworkshop Happy #AlienDay everybody!”
To commemorate the 45th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie, April 26 2024 has been designated as Alien Day, with a re-release of the film hitting theaters for a limited time.
Alien: Romulus is the seventh film in the franchise and is currently in post-production with a scheduled theatrical release date of August 16, 2024.
In other news from the Alien universe, James Cameron has been pitching fans the boxed set of Aliens: Expanded a new documentary film, and a collection of merch associated with the movie with pre-sales ending on May 5.
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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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