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5 Obscure Movie Monsters from the Past
Frankenstein. The Wolf Man. Jaws. Larry the Cable Guy. You know these movie monsters – almost everyone does. For one reason or another, they’ve been able to stand the test of time, digging into our collective memories and terrorizing us to this day. But what about the rest? What about the underdogs? Surely, there have got to be more monsters with your time? Well, yes, yes there are! Here are 5 obscure Movie Monsters that are worth looking into. If you know al of them on this list, then you’re one of my people.
The Metaluna Mutant
This Island Earth isn’t necessarily a horror film, but it contains a monster regardless. I’m especially upset that I am able to put this guy on my list of obscure movie monsters because I think this alien lifeform is just so damn cool – it’s a shame that it’s faded from most people’s memory. Parading around the fact that the film was “2 and 1/2 years in the making!”, the special effects are what really carry the film. In glorious technicolor, no less!
Pumpkinhead
I know what a lot of you are thinking. “Pumpkinhead? He’s not obscure at all! Everyone knows him.” But I challenge that notion. Yeah, he’s not exactly a hidden secret – at least, not in the horror community. On the outside of our tight-knit circle of freaks, however, many have forgotten this wonderfully campy demon of revenge. And that’s a damn shame. The world needs more Pumpkinhead, and I, for one, would not mind a remake. It’s overdue.
Basket Case
Isn’t this just the ugliest little jerk you’ve ever seen? Belial is the separated siamese twin of a mild-mannered man named Duane Bradley. Duane carries Belial around in a basket all day long, and when Duane starts getting cheeky with a lady, Belial becomes angry. Very angry. This 1982 film, directed by Frank Henenlotter is exceptionally bizarre – and just as funny. Oh, and sleazy. Can’t forget that. It’s 1980’s trash at its absolute finest.
Q – The Winged Serpent
Q is the best Ray Harryhausen film that Ray Harryhausen never made. It’s got excellent stop motion right in the middle of New York City and looks like the master of Clash of the Titans himself had done work on it. He did not, of course, but that’s one of the things that I enjoy so much about this film. It has so much B-movie charm that it actually hurts just thinking about it. Ow.
Humanoids from the Deep
Half man, half fish humanoid monsters rape and kill in this 1980 horror film. The beasts rise up from the depths to mate with human women to accelerate their evolution – something that’s already been sped up by the radioactive fish that they consume. These obscure movie monsters don’t even attempt to hide their trashiness, much like Belial in Basket Case. The film is more than a little misogynistic and inappropriate, which might have something to do with the film being lost to the ages. Roger Corman produced this little-known horror flick.
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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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