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The Euthanasia Coaster: The Fun Suicide Machine
We’ve all stood in line for a roller coaster, looking up at the monolith of steel and wood, just waiting for our turn to board the ride and experience the thrill for ourselves. The initial climb is the most exhilarating part, the almost vertical rise that is invariably accompanied by a clack-clack-clack of the machinery that takes you to the point of no return – the drop over the edge where gravity has its wicked way with you. Many people may claim to have been “scared to death” by a thrill ride, and there have even been a few unfortunate accidents over the years, but is anyone actually crazy enough to design a roller coaster with the sole purpose of killing its rider? Apparently, the answer is yes.
The designer is Julijonas Urbonas, and he is a Lithuanian engineer/artist who actually holds degrees from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in his native country and is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Perhaps the scariest thing of all is that he actually has amusement park experience, having designed for and run an attraction in Klaipeda, Lithuania. So this is not just a kid drawing with a crayon, he’s an intelligent guy. And he has figured out a way for a roller coaster to purposely kill its rider.
His contraption is called the Euthanasia Coaster, and according to Urbonas’ website, it is engineered to “humanly – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being.” That’s right – not only will this thing kill you, but you’ll enjoy it. It works by taking the rider’s car up 500 meters, then dropping it back down, sending it into a series of loops that get smaller as the ride goes on. The goal is to generate enough g-force to drain all of the rider’s blood out of his or her brain. The initial lack of blood is what causes the euphoria, and the continual lack of blood becomes the official cause of death. The Euthanasia Coaster website even lists a Dr. Michael Gresty as his medical advisor. Urbonas has carefully thought this out.
Interestingly enough, the principle behind the Euthanasia Coaster is the same principle that is behind every roller coaster. The difference is that most roller coasters (or any spinning thrill ride, for that matter) will deprive the brain of oxygen for a matter of seconds; the Euthanasia Coaster keeps the rider at 10 g for a full minute. The entire ride is almost three and a half minutes long, but theoretically, no one would make it that long.
In a video interview about his machine, Urbonas creepily explains that the Euthanasia Coaster is “for future human beings, either for dealing with overpopulation, or if your life becomes too long.” Hopefully he means it will be used for the terminally ill as an enjoyable alternative to an intravenous machine similar to those invented by Jack Kevorkian. Although it may be a limited command of the English language that causes him to phrase it that way, it’s kind of fun to hear a guy with a thick Lithuanian accent talk about killing people just because they’ve gotten old.
Check out Julijonas Urbonas’ website – https://www.julijonasurbonas.lt – and see what else he’s cooking up. He’s also invented things like the “Domestic Earthquake Generator” and the “Emancipation Kit.”
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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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