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This Haunted Automobile Has Killed At Least a Dozen People
If you asked me to name the Stephen King story that’s least likely to be based on true events, the first one to come to mind would probably be Christine, the novel-turned-horror film about an evil red car with a mind of its own. And indeed it wasn’t based on true events, but rather inspired by a totally unrelated experience in King’s life.
The story goes that King was pulling into his driveway one night when he saw the odometer on his car switch over from 9,999.9 miles to 10,000, which made him ponder a tale about a car whose odometer ran backwards, essentially getting younger instead of older. It was the germ of an idea that led to him writing Christine, putting a paranormal spin on that concept of a living car.
But if houses, people, and even mirrors can be possessed by demonic entities, then is it so hard to believe that a car could be too? Well, if you choose to believe the stories, there was in fact a real-life version of Christine, which is said to be responsible for the brutal deaths of well over a dozen people…
As we spotted over on Roadtrippers, the 1964 Dodge 330 Limited Edition you see above, dubbed the ‘Golden Eagle,’ is the most evil car in the history of the world, beginning its life as a police vehicle in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Legend has it that all three of the officers who drove the car went on to murder their families before taking their own lives, which led many to believe that the seemingly harmless automobile was inhabited by a demon.
The stories continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s, when several people who attempted to vandalize the car met similarly gruesome fates, either being struck by lightning or being hit – and allegedly decapitated – by 18-wheelers. The evil car’s current owner, Wendy Allen, claims that nearly everyone who’s come into contact with the vehicle has suffered its wrath and died under strange circumstances, and she believes that the death toll is as high as 32.
Several other stories and legends about the car include the tragic deaths of children, many of whom were apparently hit by other cars, and ended up landing on, under or near the Golden Eagle. One story from 2007 even suggests that a kid murdered his whole family and burnt their house to the ground after merely being dared to touch the car.
In more recent years, the haunted automobile has been chopped up into pieces and hidden away from the world, so that it can no longer continue its reign of terror. Many in her town have suggested that Allen has been using the vehicle to cast death spells throughout the years since she has never been directly harmed by it, though she of course denies these allegations.
What do you think? Is the Golden Eagle truly possessed by a demonic entity, or are these stories merely coincidences or perhaps even the work of fiction?
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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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