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Horror Wizard Javier Botet to Haunt ‘The Mummy’ and Stephen King’s ‘It’
While I absolutely adore Doug Jones and everything he’s done to bring mystical and fascinating creatures to life, I’m thrilled that someone else is getting recognition for the same thing. That someone else is none other than Javier Botet, who our own John Squires wrote about just last week. Jones has brought a lot of wonder and magic to the screen but more importantly he created a fascination with the people who do such work, which is why it’s so important to keep that attention going and appreciate Botet and the terror he’s brought to the horror genre.
For example, we already know that he was the titular creature in Andy Muschietti’s Mama and was recently the “Crooked Man” in The Conjuring 2. He was featured in Crimson Peak, “The Strain”, Witching & Bitching, and the first thre [Rec] films.
But did you know that Botet has been locked down to appear in both Universal’s upcoming remake of The Mummy as well as working once again with Muschietti in the film adaptation of Stephen King’s It? Neither role has been made clear but knowing the strengths of Botet, I’m sure we’ll be seeing some truly eerie and sinister creatures in both films.
If we were to speculate, then I don’t think it’d be out of the realm of possibility for Botet to play a decrepit version of The Mummy, much like the lack-of-skin one we saw Arnold Vosloo portray in 1999. As for It, maybe we’ll be seeing a spindly, twisted version of Pennywise? Or perhaps Botet will portray the mutated spider in the climactic scene?
No matter what, Botet is going to add his own special flavor to both movies and I can’t wait to see his performance.
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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