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Chucky Cosplayers Filled an Advance Screening of Orion’s ‘Child’s Play’ and We Were There!
Are we having fun now? Leading up to the release of Orion Pictures’ Child’s Play re-imagining (our review), the production company held a “Chucky Only” advance screening of the film on Wednesday, which brought out tons of Chucky superfans (myself and Bloody Disgusting’s own Meagan Navarro included) to check it out. It was…..an experience.
The screening took place at the South Lamar Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, which is known for its fun and elaborate screenings (see this year’s “Pregnant Moms” screening of The Prodigy for an example). Prior to the screening, the cosplayers proceeded to freak out theatergoers who were not there to watch Child’s Play, giving everyone quite a scare. A fun night at the movies turned sinister for the theater-goers who opted to go to the movies on a random Wednesday night.
Attendees wore striped shirts and nu Chucky’s signature “Buddi” overalls. Those who opted out of the hair and makeup (done with expertise by Hilary Whitworth) were given some seriously creepy Chucky masks to go with their striped shirt and overalls. Try not to get too creeped out by the empty dead eyes of those masks, which are the stuff of nightmares.
At this screening, we were all friends to the end.
In Klevberg’s modern take on the horror classic, a mother (Aubrey Plaza) gives her son (Gabriel Bateman, Lights Out) a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
Orion Pictures will release Child’s Play in theaters nationwide on June 21, 2019.
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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