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R.I.P. ‘My Bloody Valentine’ Star Alf Humphreys Has Died
With Valentine’s Day just over a week away, it’s getting to be that time where we return to Valentine Bluffs with a revisit of *the* Valentine’s horror movie: 1981’s My Bloody Valentine. But the revisit this year will bring some sadness along with it, as we’re bummed to learn this week that star Alf Humphreys has passed away.
The sad news comes courtesy of Sean Clark, Humphreys’ convention agent.
“I am totally heartbroken to hear about the passing of friend & client Alfred “Alf” Humphreys,” Clark wrote on Instagram. “It was Alf who brought me the entire cast of My Bloody Valentine to put together reunions. He really was a lot like his character in the film. Just a super funny and genuinely good human being. This one really hurts. At our last reunion at Bay of Blood in Tampa Bay we all knew he was having issues but it seemed to be signs of early Alzheimer’s. Well apparently it was brain cancer that has taken him away from us. I love you Alf and I hope you are at peace.”
Alf Humphreys played comic relief Howard Landers in My Bloody Valentine, a miner at Hanniger Mines. Throughout his career, Humphreys made a handful of other stops in the genre, appearing in “The Twilight Zone,” “The X-Files,” “Millennium,” “The New Addams Family,” “The Outer Limits,” Final Destination 2 and The Uninvited.
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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