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Relive the Terror of ‘The Shining’ as a Board Game…Kinda

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The fact that so many people still get inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a testament to its ability to inspire fear and terror . The story of Jack Torrance and his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, living in the Overlook Hotel for a winter is a tale that still haunts viewers to this day, leaving an indelible effect.

But sometimes the inspiration doesn’t drive one to create something to inspire horror but rather something a bit more entertaining and amusing. Much like how Mythbuster Adam Savage built a scale model of the infamous hedge maze, YouTube channel Chainsaw Estates (the badass crew behind the The Mist and The Thing custom snow globes) has done something a bit more playful. They’ve created a faux commercial that advertises a board game based on the film and they’ve given the whole thing an 80’s aura.

If you’re nostalgic for the days when board games were advertised left and right on TV, this is a great reminder of your youth!

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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