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R.L. Stine Wrote a New Goosebumps Story Last Night. On Twitter.
If there’s anybody in the horror community who’s mastered the art of Twitter it’s R.L. Stine, who regularly updates his account with a steady stream of humor, horror and even exclusive bits of news. He also makes himself readily available to chat with fans, happily answering questions sent his way.
Further proving that he’s one artist who’s utilizing present day technology to stay relevant, Stine wrote up an original Goosebumps story on Twitter last night, revealing the tale through the course of 15 individual tweets.
The story, titled ‘What’s In My Sandwich?’, is classic Stine, a condensed version of the sort of thing we’ve come to expect from the master of kid-friendly horrors.
Can’t wait for the next Goosebumps book? Then read the brand spankin’ new story below, and be sure to follow R.L. Stine on Twitter for all sorts of Halloween fun!
WHAT’S IN MY SANDWICH? – By R.L. Stine
‘People call me a loser, but that’s going to change. I was in a little diner downtown and I ordered an egg salad sandwich…
I was about to bite down on it when I noticed something moving in the egg salad. Was I imagining it? No…
I saw a hairy, three-fingered claw push a clump of egg out of the way. I saw two round black eyes. A fur-covered face…
The creature poked out of the sandwich, sending egg salad tumbling onto the plate. It was the size of a fat beetle…
But it wasn’t an insect. It had a furry head and eyes that peered into mine. Before I could react, a second creature poked out…
And then a third. My sandwich was infested. My stomach lurched. “Is everything okay?” the waitress asked…
“Yes. Fine,” I said. “Could you wrap this sandwich to go?” Finding hairy things in your sandwich is gross…
But I knew this sandwich would make me a winner. The sandwich would turn my life around…
Discovering a new life form had to make me rich. I carried the sandwich home carefully and set it on a table…
I didn’t hear my son Willy come home. When I finally saw him, he had egg salad on his face…
Yes, he ate the sandwich. If only I could have stopped him. Now the creatures are biting holes in his stomach…
They are biting holes in Willy from the inside, poking their furry heads out of his stomach, chewing his flesh…
Okay. A minor setback. But I’m not giving up. Willy is screaming in agony. The poor guy is terrified…
I’m so excited. Where is my camera? Willy is going to make me rich.’
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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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