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‘Coco’ Director is a Huge Fan of ‘The Shining’ and Put in Three Easter Eggs
Disney/Pixar’s Coco hit home video this past Tuesday, and the animated family adventure film – centered on a 12-year-old boy who is accidentally transported to the land of the dead – has not one but three fun Easter egg tributes to a decidedly less family-friendly film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, which the director happens to be a mega fan of!
Lee Unkrich is such a big fan of The Shining that he runs the blog The Overlook Hotel, and he’s put tributes to his favorite film into every animated movie he’s worked on to date. Those movies with unexpected Shining homages include Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Toy Story 3… and now, last year’s Day of the Dead-themed Coco!
Unkrich directed Coco, and Slash Film has tipped us off to the three Shining Easter eggs he put into his latest movie. In one scene, Jack Torrance’s trusty axe is embedded into a tree stump, cleverly positioned next to a red drum. A… REDRUM. In another blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, a painting of the Grady Twins is on display.
So keep your eyes peeled whenever you get around to watching/revisiting!
Before Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus gives the franchise a brand new installment this coming August, Ridley Scott’s original horror classic Alien is headed back to theaters nationwide.
The Alien: 45th Anniversary Re-Release haunts theaters for “Alien Day” on Friday, April 26, 2024! You can check listings and grab tickets through Fandango now.
In celebration of the 45th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi/horror masterpiece, the film will return to theaters for a limited time on April 26, known worldwide as Alien Day.
Plus, before the film, attendees will see “Alien: A Conversation with Ridley Scott & Fede Alvarez,” where Fede Alvarez sits down with Ridley Scott to discuss the film that started the iconic franchise.
You can watch a clip from that special bonus feature down below. In this clip, Ridley Scott and Fede Alvarez discuss the film’s iconic Chestburster scene. One person who couldn’t believe his eyes back in 1979? Stanley Kubrick! Ridley Scott relays a funny story to Alvarez, recalling the time when Kubrick called Scott wondering how the hell he pulled the nightmarish sequence off.
One of the most influential sci-fi/horror films of all time, Alien was released in June 1979 and won an Oscar for best visual effects. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto star. It is the terrifying tale of a crew aboard a commercial spacecraft that lands on an alien planet to investigate a mysterious transmission of unknown origin and encounters the deadliest lifeform in the universe.
Up next, Alien: Romulus will be released only in theaters on August 16, 2024.
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