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[Random Cool] Happy Belated Halloween Part II: Jump Scares, an Ode to Ash and Disney Horror!
The worst part about Halloween landing on a Monday (besides the lack of parties) is that every person and their mom thinks it’s a cool idea to release a piece of horror content. This resulted in one of the busiest Halloweens in the history on Bloody Disgusting.
There was so much stuff going viral across the Web that it was nearly impossible not to miss a few gems floating around, thus a belated Halloween [Random Cool] is now in the cards. Kicking off the short news bite is the above video honoring one of the greatest horror trilogies ever. The Evil Dead trilogy celebrates its 30th year both in scaring us and making us laugh, check out Nick Bosworth’s piece above.
Inside you’ll find another pair of videos (and if anything else pokes it’s head out we’ll add throughout the day) beginning with the New York Magazine’s hilarious nod to the horror movie “fake-outs” featuring a montage of scenes with jump scares. Also after the break is the latest “John Carpenter Presents” video featuring Let Me In‘s Chloe Moretz entitled “Scary Girl:” There is always a scary girl in every horror movie and Chloe Moretz is that girl…
*Update: I just added a few of my favorite Disney Halloween-themed cartoons that I planned on posting yesterday (and forgot). It included the banned (in Italy in the 1950’s) “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
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R-Rated ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ Director’s Cut Gets New Title and Streaming Premiere Date
After a slight delay, Disney has finally announced a new streaming date for the R-Rated director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. According to Gizmodo, it’ll also come with a new title.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn begins streaming on Hulu on August 14.
The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he teased a much scarier movie he intended.
“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained last year. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“
The director’s cut of the film was initially set to arrive on Disney+ in June, but quietly disappeared from the schedule without a word. Polygon reported the delay was “due to some last-minute adjustments being made to the film.”
The release’s new “Vrach Frankenshteyn” title certainly suggests those adjustments have been made, likely referring to a Frankensteining of bonus footage.
In the film, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) have been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation and Scully having become a doctor at a Catholic hospital, where she has formed a bond with a critically ill child patient.
When an FBI agent is mysteriously kidnapped, and a former Catholic priest who has been convicted of pedophilia claims to be experiencing psychic visions of the endangered agent, Scully is asked to bring Mulder back to the bureau to consult on the case because of his work with psychics.
The brand new R-rated cut will “faithfully restore the filmmaker’s original vision.”
Look for it on Hulu next month.