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Help Filmmaker Joe Begos Raise Money For His Mother’s Cancer Support

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I’ve known Joe Begos for quite some time. We first started talking because of his 2013 The Thing-inspired Almost Human, but really got to know each other as we both shared the stage at last fall’s TIFF.

There, he blew heads wide open with his Fury and Scanners-esque The Mind’s Eye. Getting to know him as a person and filmmaker was inspiring, but it was painful knowing what his family has been going through.

His mother has been battling cancer for quite some time. And while it appeared to be gone, it’s returned in a bad way.

Joe is raising money to help his mom in these tough times. Below is only a fraction of his heartbreaking story, which explains what the money is needed for.

A few weeks ago, and about 3/4th through this second round of treatment, she felt another, new lump on her ribs. Upon receiving a new round of scans, the information was devastating. The cancer was continuing to spread while under rigorous chemo and radiation treatments, and there was nothing else the doctors could do. That’s it.

She was then taken off chemo.

Mom determined that answer to be unacceptable, as anybody in her situation would. After lots of research and meeting with people who offer various natural remedies, Ma decided to fight the cancer using various natural and experimental cures that have had varying levels of success. This is where we need extra help.

Mom hasn’t been able to work since the diagnosis, and her only income is in the form of Social Security payments, which is barely enough to cover her bills of living alone in a 1 bedroom apartment, let alone anything she actually needs to help combat this. I, along with various other family members have done everything we could to start her on this natural treatment, but it hasn’t been nearly enough.

This is the last route we can take, so we need to throw everything at it that we can. I can’t lose my Mom.

Joe is a close friend of Bloody Disgusting, and we consider him family. We know everyone has their own struggles in daily life, but if you’re in a position to help another in need it would mean the world to all of us if you could help out.

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Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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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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