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See Original Krampus Designs From 1999!
For me, the Christmas season means watching Krampus on repeat. At least, that’s what it’s meant since last year when it was released. Age is but a number, as they say!
I know deep within my blackened, cursed heart that Krampus is now a bonafide Christmas classic. It’s just that good. And for this, we have Michael Dougherty to thank.
This year for Christmas, because he couldn’t give us a new movie, he gave us some wonderful insight to Krampus’ origins instead. Some of these designs for the film date all the way back to 1999. He posted on Twitter today an original sketch of the monster:
This was the first doodle of @KrampusMovie I made while brainstorming over drinks with @wordwarthree. pic.twitter.com/8T5VT4Vy7d
— Mike Dougherty (@Mike_Dougherty) December 21, 2016
But that’s not all the director wanted to share with us. He shares the second design as well, and then lets us all in on a little secret.
This was my next sketch in the @KrampusMovie design. The branch horns were neat but didn’t last long. pic.twitter.com/bpiLZVDOzW
— Mike Dougherty (@Mike_Dougherty) December 21, 2016
Yep. It was always meant to be a skin mask. Mortal eyes aren’t worthy of his true face. @KrampusMovie https://t.co/Bw107PVZ1U
— Mike Dougherty (@Mike_Dougherty) December 21, 2016
Skin mask, huh? I like it! For whatever reason, I’ve never looked at it that way. That now adds a whole new element of creepiness to the design.
Almost as interesting are his designs for the minions that Krampus employs.
The @KrampusMovie minions were based off years of my old xmas card designs. This one is from 1999. #snowgoons pic.twitter.com/NQtMqyIEEc
— Mike Dougherty (@Mike_Dougherty) December 21, 2016
And finally, we get a look at the origins of the evil little gingerbread men. Aren’t they so cute?
SEASON’S EATINGS. This xmas card from 2003 is the origin of the @KrampusMovie Gingerbread Men. @wetafx pic.twitter.com/xO1sqhHuaa
— Mike Dougherty (@Mike_Dougherty) December 21, 2016
Will we ever see another Krampus film? I don’t know. For now, let’s just appreciate what we already have before getting too greedy. No, I’m not impatient. You are! What’s jumping the gun!? Who said that? I have patience, I really do!
Please believe me?
You can find Dougherty on Twitter by following this link.
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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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