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[R.I.P.] ‘Halloween: Resurrection’ Writer Larry Brand Has Died
Nearly twenty years before Danny McBride, David Gordon Green and Jeff Fradley were tasked with scripting “the final confrontation” between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, writers Larry Brand and Sean Hood did much the same with 2002’s Halloween: Resurrection, which definitively ended the saga with the death of Laurie Strode at Michael’s hands.
Today we’re sad to report that co-writer Brand has passed away at the age of 69. Deadline reports that the writer/filmmaker “died peacefully February 9 at his home in Hollywood.”
Long before scripting Halloween: Resurrection, Larry Brand got his start as driver and production assistant to the legendary Orson Welles, and his own career kicked off with the thriller Backfire in 1987, his first feature as writer. Brand, who frequently worked with Roger Corman early in his career, subsequently wrote & directed films such as The Drifter, Masque of the Red Death, Overexposed, Paranoia, Christina and The Girl on the Train.
Larry Brand is survived by his brothers, Tim Roth and Nick Roth.
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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