Over the years, Fortnite has done it all. It’s gone to sea, war, space, alternate timelines, and the end (and subsequent reboot) of the world. Most importantly, it recently hosted a Lady Gaga takeover. With its upcoming season 5 though, Fortnite is taking a classical approach to its theme and venturing to the land of…
Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale) has the lead role in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master director Renny Harlin‘s The Strangers: Chapter 1, which Lionsgate will be giving a theatrical release on May 17th. The full trailer for this film just made its way online a few days ago, and now a clip has been unveiled that shows Petsch’s character in a very dangerous situation. The clip, which has a running time of nearly 2 minutes, can be seen in the embed above.
Harlin has made an entire trilogy of Strangers films, and we’ve heard that Lionsgate will also be releasing The Strangers: Chapter 2 and The Strangers: Chapter 3 by the end of the year.
Petsch is joined in the cast of these films by Froy Gutierrez (Cruel Summer), Rachel Shenton (All Creatures Great and Small), Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy), and Ema Horvath (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power). The Strangers: Chapter 1 centers on Petsch’s character as she drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers. Lionsgate plans from there to expanding the story in new and unexpected ways with its sequels.
The new Strangers trilogy was filmed in Slovakia, and all three movies were shot simultaneously. Solomon produced them with Mark Canton, Christopher Milburn, Gary Raskin, Charlie Dombeck, and Alastair Birlingham. Andrei Boncea, Dorothy Canton, and Roy Lee serve as executive producers. Rafaella Biscayn, Frame Film SK, Johanna Harlin, Juan Garcia Peredo, and Alberto Burgueno are co-producing.
Harlin has said The Strangers: Chapter 1 “is close to the original movie in its set-up of a young couple in an isolated environment in a house and a home invasion happening for random reasons.” Then Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 “explore what happens to the victims of this kind of violence and who the perpetrators are of this kind of violence. Where are they coming from and why?“
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Moogles, one of the consistent mascots of the Final Fantasy franchise, have taken many different forms over the series’ lifetime. While they’re always mammalian in some way, they’ve resembled different animals such as bears, bunnies, cats, and bats across iterations. These little guys are usually beloved, but the…
Moogles, one of the consistent mascots of the Final Fantasy franchise, have taken many different forms over the series’ lifetime. While they’re always mammalian in some way, they’ve resembled different animals such as bears, bunnies, cats, and bats across iterations. These little guys are usually beloved, but the…
Jamie Foxx is such a hard worker that even in a year when the star fell under mysterious health issues that kept bed-ridden in the hospital for some time, he still had multiple projects premiering. Last year saw Jamie Foxx have a packed slate of projects, which include starring in movies like They Cloned Tyrone, Strays and The Burial. He even has a few projects in post-production that were filming around that time, like Back in Action, a vehicle co-starring Cameron Diaz in a return to movies after a decade hiatus. Foxx would eventually recover from his private situation and release a social media video assuring fans that he’s back in good health and great spirits. However, this did not stop people from speculating on what was wrong with him.
According to Variety, the actor-singer-comedian appeared at the African American Film Critics Association’s (AAFCA) Special Achievement Awards luncheon this past Sunday, where he would finally start to address his hospitalization. Foxx stated that he will be revealing what happened during the whole situation, but it will be on a platform that’s near and dear to his career. He explained, “Everybody wants to know what happened, and I’m going to tell you what happened. But I’ve gotta do it in my way. I’m gonna do it in a funny way. We’re gonna be on the stage. We’re gonna get back to the standup sort of roots.” Foxx previewed the audience, saying, “It’ll be called, What Had Happened Was, and it’s got all the things that happened, especially on our side of our community.” To which Jamie poked fun at the conspiracy theories that his public appearances during that time was a double, “I dove out of a car to save this Black woman’s purse. That ain’t no damn Jamie, that’s a clone.”
Foxx recently announced that he will be returning to his Fox game show, Beat Shazam, which he hosts alongside his daughter, Corinne. The star had addressed the new lease on life he’s gained since he was discharged from the hospital, “I’m so thankful. And I just get emotional. Because it was really… it’s beyond the scope. Cherish life. I have some people in my life that really made sure I was here because it was dire straits.” However, Foxx would then joke how insufferable his joy became for his family, “I was drinking some water, like ‘Wow, you taste this water? It’s so wet. This is the wettest water’ [and his daughter responded,] ‘Dad, you’ve gotta chill out.’”
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There is something to appreciate when horror deviates from the typical slice and dice. Sometimes it involves demonic possessions (Exorcist), blood-thirsty sharks (Jaws), killer dolls (Child’s Play) or even a shape-shifting organism (The Thing). The horror genre has constantly evolved over-time but today we’re going to go totally left field and have a matchup for the ages between the originator and the emulator. One that involves the book of the dead and deadites while the other brings blood-hungry demons, mystical daggers, and roundhouse loving magicians. Yes, it’s all there with plenty to chew on, and there are no qualms about it, well sort of. We have in our Horror Movie Rip-off ring, 1990’s Demon Wind directed by Charles Philip Moore (get it HERE) and 1987’s Evil Dead II directed by Sam Raimi (get that one HERE). Did Demon Wind rip a page right out of Evil Dead’s Necronomicon for their own, and tried to do it better? Let’s get our boom stick, our Kandarian Dagger, and dive right in.
ASH AND CORY AND THEIR ALTER-EGOS
Both films display their main stars Cory and Ash have a flipside to them that helps further propel the story forward. In Evil Dead II when Ash lets the Book of the Dead incantation play through the tape player, the evil flies through the forest and launches him, turning him into a deadite as he comes up head from a muddy puddle of water. Ash on multiple occasions prevents Annie, Bobby Joe, and Jake from defeating evil while in his deadite form. However, when Ash holds Linda’s necklace while possessed, his trapped human form takes hold again and he goes back to destroying some deadite baddies. In Demon Wind, when we find out that the café owner Harcourt is the son of Satan towards the end of the movie, Cory needs to think up a gameplan. He realizes he can become a higher-being from God, with the help of his grandmother’s diary, to go head-to-head with this massive foul-looking beast. Both Ash and Cory have a flipside to their human counterparts on screen. While one relishes in evil becoming the enemy he has sought out to destroy, the other becomes an alien-like figure that fights evil and protecting the woman he loves.
THE GANGS All HERE!
Both Evil Dead and Demon Wind, as well as any ther horror movie typically has a group of meat fodder thrown in for good measure. In Evil Dead II, Ash brings his love interest Linda to the desolate cabin, and when all things go haywire, the movie brings in some characters to the mix including Annie, who is the daughter of archeologist Raymond Knowby, you know the guy who recorded the Necromoicon passages so that the evil forces could live on and possess more innocent bystanders. Then there is Annie’s boyfriend, Ed, and lastly the locals, Bobby Joe and Jake, who know where the cabin is to guide Annie and Ed. Soon enough, majority of them fall victim to the horrors that await them. In Demon Wind, you get almost the opposite of Evil Dead’s gang. Most of them look like they came out of a Rick Roll Video with those slick hairstyles, but majority of them fall to such wooden typecasts – the jock, Dell, the nerdy ones – Jack, Terri, and Chuck, And then you have all the females who try to be wannabe scream queens, and become absolutely forgettable by the time Demon Wind is over. I would like to mention that while Evil Dead II you see the camaraderie and care with those in the group, Demon Wind plays out the opposite. One of them turns into a doll that gushes blood, and the group doesn’t even bother to shed a tear! It does make up for some great laughs in return for the absurdity of it all.
THOSE DAMN BOOKS!
You know it’s bad news when a certain book possesses macabre scriptures of the unknown and skin covered bindings to them with an evil looking face to it. A real page-turner that can bring about the worst nightmares. Well Evil Dead II is infamously known for its Book of the Dead aka The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. Archeologist Raymond Knowby has recorded several passages from the book and when Ash plays these recorded incantations, the evils comes alive, causing mass chaos in its path to the likes of hell-spawn demons known as deadites, ravenous trees, blood spewing walls, cellar-dwelling creatures, and more nasty delights. In Demon Wind, there is a book, but it’s the flipside to the evil Necronomicon from Dead. This book was a diary with spells that was hidden by Cory’s grandmother, Regina within her farmhouse. The diary would help fight the demons that were unearthed 60 years back and are ready to return once Cory and his friends stay the night. The book is a useful resource as it provides a barrier around the house to keep Cory and his friends safe. It also transforms Cory into a higher-being to fight off the big bad Satan-monster at the end. You can’t help but laugh when his higher-being transformation belongs more in a Galaxy Quest film than a Demon Wind film.
DEADITES, DEMONS, AND BLOOD – OH MY!
Deadites are always the main villains of the Evil Dead films. Known for their abilities to change appearance to throw off an unsuspected victim, to contorting their bodies in very unnatural ways, deadites are viciously uncompromising and downright ghastly to watch. They are unearthed once the Necronomicon’s incantations are spoken by the one person who wants to spice up their life a little bit. These deadites are extremely hard to kill, chopping off limbs won’t do much unless you go for the head. They pack quite a punch, or in this film, quite a bite. They can also shapeshift into nasty mutant creatures that look like something out of Carpenter’s The Thing. In Demon Wind, the demons also can change their appearance into average human beings, some are even quite the lookers, before quickly turning into deadite wannabe ghouls. They bite, slash, and savagely attack their prey. They are quite nasty to look at as well, and some well-placed gun shots or magical daggers will do the trick. Yes, you’ll absolutely get Evil Dead vibes from these demons because they act almost entirely the same. Still fun to watch though even if its ripped right from Evil Dead lore. Even funnier is that when Evil Dead II has a scene involved possessed trees towards the end of the film, Demon Wind has a scene involving laughing trees which may be a subtle nod to Evil Dead II? How about this one, in Demon Wind, Reena goes up to an Animal skull hanging in the barn next to the farmhouse. It comes alive, wrapping a tongue around her head and starts chomping away. Again, you go back to Evil Dead II when the deer head on the wall turns its neck and starts laughing maniacally. All these Demon Wind scenes are homages or emulations to that of Evil Dead II but feel more like watered-down copies.
TRAPPED IN PARADISE
Coincidentally Demon Wind has a very similar setting to that of Evil Dead II. While Evil Dead II takes place in a desolate cabin in the woods far away from civilization, Demon Wind takes place at a desolate farmhouse far off the beaten path, involving long windy roads, and hills. The only thing working in Demon Wind’s favor is Harcourt’s Café not too far from where the farmhouse resides. The owner of Harcourt’s Café is a geriatric, odd man who warns Cory and his friends to turn around and go home. In Evil Dead II when Ash and Linda make it to the cabin, and things start going off the rails, Ash realizes that he must leave only to be stopped dead in his tracks when the bridge has been destroyed, preventing him from leaving. In Demon Wind, Cory and his friends become trapped when all their cars malfunction. Once they try walking away from the dangers that lurk at the farmhouse, a fog consumes them, unwilling to let them leave. The same fog that brings about those pesky demons at night.
SAME CAMERA TRICKS, TWO DIFFERENT CINEMATOGRAPHERS
In Demon Wind, you’d think that cinematographer Peter Deming, from Evil Dead II was the man behind the camera. However, it was cinematographer Thomas L. Callaway who took a page from Evil Dead cinematographer Peter Deming towards the overall look of the film. In Demon Wind the camera work is eerily like that of Evil Dead II. This can be a subjective opinion but when you have camera tricks such as the quick zooms, Dutch tilts, extreme closeups, zoom outs, everything that give Evil Dead II that visual flair over most horror films during its time brings more to my case that Demon Wind is a copycat to that of Evil Dead even on a technical front.
WEAPON OF CHOICE
There’s another notch to the belt of our copycat friend Demon Wind. When it comes to weaponry involved in the film, Cory and his friends use a shotgun throughout the film to dispose the demons. In Evil Dead II, Ash uses a double-barreled shotgun aka his boomstick, to take out some deadites. Here’s when it gets even easier to decipher this as concrete copycat. Both movies have mystical daggers to wipe out their demonic forces. Evil Dead II has the Kandarian Dagger which is used in several scenes, while Demon Wind uses two daggers that destroy the demons for good once penetrated into their bodies. In Demon Wind, it’s stated there is seven mystical daggers, but Grandma Regina only how possession of two. Sounds awfully familiar right? Too familiar for my own liking, but let’s move on!
TAKE MY STRONG HAND!
Evil Dead II had a great scene involving Ash getting his hand infected when it became bitten by his deadite girlfriend Linda. The hand starts to become possessed and hurts Ash by smashing his face with glass plates and other items which results Ash to cut it off and substituted for that legendary chainsaw that made Ash so iconic and engrained in horror movie lore. The possessed hand becomes a nuisance throughout the film, running away from Ash throughout the cabin when it almost gets blown to pieces by the boomstick. In Demon Wind, Corey’s friend Jack becomes infected when his hand gets bit by one of the demons outside, but at the same time, why the hell are you using a hammer through a window with very minimal space to move around? It’s upsetting cause due to the stupidity of Jack and him being one of the most well-liked characters in Demon Wind, he becomes one of the ghouls outside.
CLOSING
While watching Demon Wind, it’s apparent how much they took from Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II and that isn’t necessarily a good thing. Evil Dead II to this day is a phenomenal film that is still discussed among horror fans with multiple films including sequels, requels, and soft reboots. If you went into a crowd of cinema fanatics and movie buffs, I almost feel like everyone would know of Evil Dead II while no one would remotely know of Demon Wind and the proof is in the pudding when you watch Demon Wind. All signs point to it being a very watered-down version of the movie it was trying to replicate. And while we have Evil Dead II to marvel at for many years to come, we can always give thanks to Demon Wind for trying to stand toe-to-toe with it. I can honestly say if you need to make a drinking game you can pop in Demon Wind for how many WTF moments the movie has, that’s for damn sure. I’ll see you for the next one folks, and if you like what you see, like and subscribe to our channel and stay tuned for more videos from JoBlo.
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The first trailer for Apple TV+’s Colin Farrell vehicle Sugar has been released, putting the star in the role of detective and under the direction of City of God’s Fernando Meirelles.
Here is the official synopsis of Sugar, per Apple: “Starring and executive produced by Farrell, “Sugar” is a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture, and television history: the private detective story. Academy Award-nominee Colin Farrell stars as John Sugar, an American private investigator on the heels of the mysterious disappearance of Olivia Siegel, the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel. As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he will also unearth Siegel family secrets; some very recent, others long-buried.”
Colin Farrell’s television output his career has been quite slim, starting off on BBC’s Ballykissangel, with his first American season the much-derided sophomore season of True Detective. He, too, has since landed The Penguin based off of his appearance in The Batman. That show will also premiere later this year — after delays due to last year’s WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes — albeit on Max.
In addition to Colin Farrell, the cast of Sugar also includes Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Barry), Amy Ryan (Only Murders in the Building), James Cromwell (Succession), Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad), and Dennis Boutsikaris (Better Call Saul). The first two episodes will premiere on April 5th, with the remaining six episodes following every Friday.
Sugar was created by Mark Protosevich; while this is his first television project, he has writing credits on Spike Lee’s Oldboy and I Am Legend, in addition to unproduced works within the Batman and Jurassic Park franchises. Simon Kinberg serves as executive producer. This will also be Meirelles’ first American television production, although his previous series Pico de Neblina aired on HBO Brazil, his home country.
Sugar looks pretty slick and suave judging by the trailer, so this could be yet another strong outing from Apple TV+, who has hits across a variety of genres so far.
What did you think of the trailer for Sugar? How do you feel about Colin Farrell’s television work to date? Let us know in the comments section below!
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As we stare vacantly at our smartphones and watch global atrocities unfold over “X,” it’s easy to forget that the internet once offered a vision for hope. In the early ‘90s, the infinite possibilities of an interconnected web felt exhilarating. Knowledge and data could be seamlessly shared across the globe. “Snail…
As we stare vacantly at our smartphones and watch global atrocities unfold over “X,” it’s easy to forget that the internet once offered a vision for hope. In the early ‘90s, the infinite possibilities of an interconnected web felt exhilarating. Knowledge and data could be seamlessly shared across the globe. “Snail…
It might be hard to believe, but it has been 30 years since the world lost one of the most beloved screen presences in modern times, John Candy. And while we can honor his too-short life and career by watching some of his greatest movies, we’ll never get to experience what his children did. But they are at least letting fans in on their personal feelings for their father, who died on March 4th, 1994.
Posting on her personal Instagram, John Candy’s eldest daughter Jennifer shared a photo of the two with the caption, “30 years ago today … feels like both a lifetime with and without you . Miss you and love you always”, along with a heart emoji. Jennifer had previously said, “He was your everyday kind of guy and a great dad and very lovable…Very much similar to characters that he was on film.”
Posting on his own social media account, John Candy’s only son Chris wrote, “All my love to my father today”, along with a picture of John in a Hawaiian shirt.
A number of co-stars also fondly remembered John Candy for his humor, spirit and good nature. Steve Martin, who co-started in Planes, Trains and Automobile — perhaps the greatest Thanksgiving movie ever — stated, “John’s comedy lives on, but my memory of him has the words ‘kindness’ and ‘sweetness’ in the headlines.” Meanwhile, Cool Runnings director Jon Turteltaub remembered Candy’s giving nature, saying, “When you were with John, he did something very few brilliantly funny and famous people do: He laughed at other people’s jokes…That’s actually a big deal. He made people feel welcome. He made people feel wanted.”
Most touching of all were comments from Wagons East co-star Richard Lewis, who spoke about John Candy weeks before his February death and remembered being in “comedy heaven” working with Candy, who frequently improved on the set. John Candy would succumb to a heart attack with just a few days left of filming left on Wagons East. It would be the first of two posthumous releases, with Canadian Bacon arriving in 1995.
While those were near the bottom of John Candy’s filmography, he still left behind some tremendous works, with such charming performances in The Great Outdoors, Home Alone, Uncle Buck, and many more, not to mention sketch comedy series SCTV. There, too, were so many “What if?” projects, like a version of the doomed A Confederacy of Dunces, a Fatty Arbuckle biopic and even Stephen King’s Thinner, turning out to be the author’s original choice for the lead.
What are your all-time favorite John Candy movie or TV performances? Give us your top 3 in the comments section below.
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