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“Paranormal Couple” Cody and Satori Aim to Prove They Aren’t Fakes Amid Drama
YouTubers and ghost hunters Cody and Satori have been through the wringer in the last few months. The popular team was accused of being fake after some of their peers came out against them. After weeks of being silent, they decided to speak up about the controversy and how they are determined to prove their skeptics wrong.
The Start
The couple claim to have a special ability to communicate with the dead by locking hands with each other and in doing so, receive a series of knocking sounds that surround the room they are standing in. This technique is said to be their form of communication between real life and the hereafter, as each knock, like a form of paranormal Morse Code, spells out responses to questions. It’s this, said to only happen between them, that is the crux of the controversy.
It all started in late October when Cody and Satori were guest-hunters on another YouTube investigation channel Sam and Colby. That duo was investigating the real-life Conjuring House in a series and invited Cody and Satori to join them for one episode. In that episode, the couple performed their “Wonder Twin” technique. But some people weren’t convinced and called them hoaxsters, saying they were making the knocking sounds by forcing their ankles to “pop” voluntarily.
The Community Attacks
The Reddit and YouTube ghost-hunting community went on the offense claiming that this knocking method was an old-timey parlour trick and that the couple was scamming their fans.
The firestorm became so bad that Satori’s father, famed Ghost Hunter Jason Hawes, responded in his own video saying that people should never stop trying to debunk claims, but that they should also do it in a way that doesn’t include personal attacks.
Sam and Colby also fell under the bus in the controversy and quickly tried to asway any connection they may have had in the accusations. They took to social media to reassure fans they were looking into the charges.
ever since the Conjuring series released we’ve seen a lot of information/questions come out about Cody & Satori. we are in the process of looking over everything and will be making a video soon to talk about things 🙏🏼
— Sam and Colby (@SamandColby) November 9, 2023
appreciate everyone’s patience and opinions
The Response From Cody & Satori
Cody and Satori had remained virtually radio silent about the debacle until December 10 when they appeared on the second hour of Dead Air Full Spectrum Podcast. In that interview, the couple stood firm on their abilities and even conceded to do their special knock trick without shoes on; many naysayers have said their feet are the secret to their “abilities.”
You can hear their responses starting at about 1:01.
The paranormal reality TV series firestorm has jumped the river from cable into the YouTubiverse. While there has been recent dissension among the ranks of cable TV ghosthunters, the ones on YouTube have pretty much been left unscathed.
Whether it’s because those channels are already labeled as disreputable because their owners literally get paid on likes and views and are therefore more open to manipulated exaggeration, or the majority of watchers believe that these amateur investigators are legit, the high-profile drama with Cody and Satori is a platform first.
It remains to be seen whether they can successfully convince the community of their abilities. No word yet on when they plan to do this.
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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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