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The ‘EVIL DEAD RISE’ Trailer Brings Hair-Raising Body Horror in a Highrise (Trailer Breakdown)
While the Deadites feast on souls, Evil Dead fans are eating good again.
After a teaser released via franchise star and executive producer Bruce Campbell’s Twitter, dubbing Evil Dead Rise “the scariest one yet”, today saw the full trailer release in all its gory glory courtesy of New Line Cinema and Renaissance Pictures. In keeping with the series tradition, it’s also chockful of some truly skin-crawling brutalization of the human body (trust, you will learn to be afraid of a cheese grater) so watch at your own risk.
Evil Dead Rise focuses on the reunion of sisters Beth (played by Lily Sullivan) and Ellie (played by Alyssa Sutherland). Just as Beth begins bonding with her nieces and nephews, the Necronomicon rears its ugly head, and a visit to the city becomes a fight to survive as Beth is pitted against a Deadite-possessed Ellie and her cohorts.
Directed by Lee Cronin, early response from fans for Rise is positive as the glimpse promises us high-impact and high-energy horror similar to the beloved Evil Dead (2013). This trailer gave us the familiar in a fresh new way; an explosive torrent of blood, Deadite mind games, and an essential chainsaw money shot.
Most interesting were new shots of a toothier, veiny redesign Necronomicon, the series iconic book of the dead. It’s even possible Evil Dead Rise might be introducing a new grimoire full of nasty rituals and demonology to unleash. Whether it’s one book or the other, the demons are here to do damage.
Evil Dead Rise is set to release in theaters on April 21, 2023.
You can watch the new trailer below!
Horror has, once again, proven it is the greatest force of positivity in the world of art today. Duplass Brothers Productions, known for its Creep franchise, has partnered with the Transgender Film Center to create the Found Footage Feature Fund. It was unveiled at Fantastic Fest, and promises an intersection of analog terror and empowered voices.
This is a fully financed, $25,000 grant for Trans filmmakers to tell original stories. The only criteria is that films should incorporate some element of found footage, collage, or other form of experimental media within their project. Mark Duplass, along with Trans Film Center Executive Sav Rodgers, says this is an opportunity not just to support independent storytellers, but to empower Trans filmmakers. A message we can totally get behind.
This fund is a phenomenal response to an era of discrimination, battling bigotry with action, art, and creativity.. The fund will open on October 23rd and close on November 7th. The grantee will be selected in December.
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The V/H/S franchise is back and scarier than ever, just in time for the season of the witch. The series, which began with its initial entry in 2012, promises a new theme with each installment. Themes such as science-fiction, 1994, and 1999 have been covered, but this year’s may prove both the scariest and the most fun: Halloween. Even more exciting is, about two months after announcement, the trailer for V/H/S Halloween has finally been released.
The trailer is itself a total blast. Starting with a 90s-family-movie-esque voice over, the intro back to the Halloween commercials of the early 2000s. The viewer is welcomed to an array of nostalgic, seasonal costumes, decorations and animatronics, only to be blindsided by a switch to ominous music and bloody, grungy terror with autumnal flare. One could most likely expect possessions, masked killers and nightmare-inducing mascot characters. So far, this seems perfect for Goosebumps fans.
Directors for this installment include genre favorites Alex-Ross Perry, Paco Plaza, and more. V/H/S Halloween will be released on SHUDDER on October 3rd.
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