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[OMFG] Modern Day ‘War of the Worlds’ Panic Out of Italy
From The Guardian UK comes a pretty OMFG news story out of Italy.
In a modern day version of what happened with Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation of “The War of the Worlds” (Telling HG Wells’s story of an alien invasion by means of realistic news bulletins, Welles created genuine panic), more than 430,000 people have clicked on a YouTube clip purporting to be from an Italian news bulletin reporting the imminent arrival of extraterrestrials.
The snippet is from a film, L’ultimo terrestre (The Last Earthling), to be shown at the Venice film festival later this month.
Watch the videos and read more about this insane story inside.
(continued) But the newsreader is the clip a real TV journalist, Maria Cuffaro, who presents prime-time bulletins on the state-owned RAI network.
Without the trace of a smile, she reports that, following an emergency cabinet meeting, the government has issued a statement reassuring the country that the aliens do not pose any danger to the population and urging them not to stockpile food or water.
Rather less comfortingly, Cuffaro says there is no intention of interrupting essential services such as gas and electricity “for the moment”.
Still poker-faced, she goes on to tell viewers that the Vatican will soon make public previously secret passages in the Bible that forecast the arrival of extraterrestrials. And she quotes a priest as calling on the faithful to consult a fictitious encyclical, Adventus Marzianus.
RAI asked people to heed Cuffaro’s advice and not be panicked into hoarding — a call that may have been needed given the uncanny realism of the video extract: a broken sentence at the start shows the arrival of creatures from outer space is not the lead item, but has been pushed down the running order by injuries to two of the players in the Italian national football squad.
Jessica Chastain stars in the upcoming horror movie Other Mommy, and the film’s official MPA rating has arrived ahead of its release in theaters this coming Halloween season.
Other Mommy is Rated R for “some bloody violence, and language.”
From director Rob Savage (Host), Other Mommy is an adaptation of Josh Malerman’s (Bird Box) novel Incidents Around the House, and it’s in theaters October 9 from Universal.
Watch the official Other Mommy trailer below to begin this domestic nightmare.
From producer James Wan, one of the most influential architects of modern horror, and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, behind Backrooms and Obsession, comes a terrifying trip from breakout genre director Rob Savage, into the darkening world of a young girl, Bela, who forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home who looks uncannily like her own mother.
Academy Award® winner Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) stars in dual roles as Bela’s mother and as “Other Mommy,” a manifestation of the entity.
Jay Duplass (Transparent, Industry) plays Daddo, Bela’s father, and Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle) plays Bela. The impressive supporting cast includes Actor Award nominee Dichen Lachman (Severance), Emmy and Tony Award nominee Arian Moayed (Succession) and screen legend Karen Allen (Indiana Jones).
Other Mommy is directed by Rob Savage (Host, The Boogeyman) from a screenplay by WGA award winner Nathan Elston, writer for the Emmy-winning sensation Succession, based on the New York Times bestselling novel Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (Bird Box).
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