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UXB Created for ‘Maddening’ and ‘Suicide Solution’
The Cannes market is loaded with surprises that range from random acquisitions (Magnet nabbing Rubber) to bizarre announcements (Romero directing Deep Red 3D). As a horror fan the best of news comes when a new label is created with the sole purpose of delivering a mass amount of genre films. Announced this morning is UXB (Unexploded Bomb), a new genre arm to Jinga Films that has two new horror films lined up for production later this year.
Jinga Films is setting up a new genre label UXB (Unexploded Bomb).
UXB’s first project will be action horror The Maddening about an American rock band, who are stranded in Serbia during an outbreak of mass hysteria caused by a biological weapons leak.
Craig Fairbrass (Dead Cert, Devil’s Playground) has joined the project to play a former SAS soldier who comes to their rescue. The Maddening will be produced by Julian Richards and Nikola Pantelic with Milan Todorovic (Zone of the Dead) directing.
It is also working on psychological horror Suicide Solution about a father and daughter who embark on a murder spree in Austin, Texas. It will be produced by Bob Portal and directed by Julian Richards (The Last Horror Movie).
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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