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Actress “Permanently Scarred” While Filming ‘Ghostland’?

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The director of Martyrs is back for more mayhem, this time in Ghostland, opening internationally this month. The footage looks absolutely insane, in the vein of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Apparently, it was an equally rough shoot.

A 20-year-old Canadian actress who was injured while filming Ghostland is suing Incident Productions, claiming an on-set injury is keeping her from booking jobs, writes THR.

Taylor Hickson says she was filming an emotionally charged scene in December 2016 that required her to pound on a glass door. After being directed to pound harder, she claims, she asked both a producer and the director if it was safe and was assured it was.

During one take the door shattered and Hickson’s head and upper body went through the glass, according to the complaint filed March 1 in Winnipeg.

“As a result of the Incident, the Plaintiff badly cut the left side of her face,” states the suit. “She was rushed to hospital and received approximately 70 stitches. She has since undergone treatment including laser treatment and silicone treatment, but over one year post-Incident, has been left with permanent scarring on the left side of her face (the “Injury”). It is unknown at this time if any further treatment, including plastic surgery, would reduce the visual appearance of the Injury.”

Hickson claims it’s industry protocol that in a scene like this either safety glass would have been used or a stunt double would have done it, and that producers failed to ensure her safety on set, adds the site.

She’s seeking damages for future loss of income and mental distress, and alleges that she has struggled to find work since the injury.

The story follows a mother of two who inherits a home from her Aunt. On the first night in the new home, she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughter’s lives. Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange…

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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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