The savvy folks at Bloody Disgusting dropped the news that yet another EVIL DEAD film, this one titled EVIL DEAD BURN, will gallop into theaters in 2026. Director Sébastien Vaniček, recently coming off his creepy-crawly genre entry VERMINES (INFESTED), will be working from a script he co-wrote with Florent Bernard. How this will impact the previously announced EVIL DEAD film slated to be directed by Francis Galluppi is anyone’s guess.
Needless to say, it’s too soon for details about Vaniček’s project, but we’ll keep our ears to the ground for updates in the coming months! For now, you can check out Bloody Disgusting’s original article here.
It’s time for another neat prop that was on display at the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle, WA. Today’s offering is an actual ‘facehugger’ Xenomorph from the ALIEN franchise!
Here are another few items that were on display at the Museum at Popular Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle.
This time, we get a pair of power tools donated by director Eli Roth, including a chainsaw and circular saw used in his films HOSTEL (2005) and HOSTEL: PART II (2007), respectively.
I hallucinated last week, folks. It’s not something I do frequently, but I was in the thick of my very first ‘lucha libre’-style wrestling match with COVID-19. Though even my illnesses can’t arrive fashionably on time (“You have Covid? That’s so 2020!”), the notion aligns nicely for a man running a retrospective blog that’s today highlighting one of the most experimental filmmakers of our time, a perversely crazy demi-genius by the name of Alejandro Jodorowsky.
A 95-year-old Chilean who’s been making films since the late 1950s, Jodorowsky rose to prominence in the 1970s with avant-garde offerings such as EL TOPO (1970) and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973). The director quickly cemented his place in midnight movie history, becoming synonymous with heady blends of hallucinatory, religious, violent, and erotic imagery in the spirit of such surrealist film pioneers as Luis Buñuel.
SANTA SANGRE may be a bit more cohesive and straightforward from a narrative sense than Jodo’s earlier and more widely-known works, but it’s no less astonishing. Commanding a sense of color like few other directors can, he is able to ingratiate a troupe of circus performers to his audience through a visual mix of psychotropic theatricality and earth-bound grotesquerie. All things are normalized in a Jodorowsky film; here, elephant funerals, children forced into being tattooed, and coked-up Down Syndrome patients on the search for hookers are in their proper places in this world. The sacred and the profane are braided forever into one. There are no ‘freaks’ in our universe, you see–all are family. If you don’t have any family, some will be assigned to you.
I feel the less I tell you about the plot the better, which comes in very handy here because, much like every other Jodo film, an explanation takes longer than the experience itself. Simply put as possible, the narrative follows a boy into manhood, where he eventually crushes under the weight of parental influence. The film dances with the dueling notions of control versus fulfilling fate’s prophecy, whether you do it yourself or, ironically, have someone force it on you. Ultimately, we are witness to a curious study in trauma, continually questioning who’s the victim of it, who can atone for it, and what dangers arise from using grief as a false idol.
Don’t just watch SANTA SANGRE. Taste it. Smell it. Wrap your arms around it, and never let it go.
After all these years, part of me still has a problem wrapping my head around the fact that Mel Brooks (yep, that Mel Brooks) not only produced David Cronenberg’s captivating 1986 remake of THE FLY, he also came up with one of the best taglines of all time: “Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.”
It’s time we recognize this man is good for way more than just farty bean jokes and sprightly Broadway numbers about Hitler.
This is the epitome of those wonderful VHS-era horror adverts from the late 80s.
In the pom-pom wavin’ spirit of all those school-set slashers like STUDENT BODIES, SLAUGHTER HIGH, FINAL EXAM, CUTTING CLASS, NIGHT SCHOOL, PROM NIGHT, and probably about 22 others I can’t recall at the moment, RETURN TO HORROR HIGH went on to take its place in the horror pantheon mostly because it featured a very young George Clooney. That’s right, folks, Johnny Depp and Kevin Bacon weren’t the only heartthrobs to get their start in slashers!
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Been dealing with a 101-degree fever, so UBHB will be taking a respite for a bit over the Thanksgiving holiday. Don’t worry, though! I’ll snap back soon and we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming before you know it!
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