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Rock and Shock Returns to Massachusetts This Weekend with Bruce Campbell, Kane Hodder & More
For the sixteenth consecutive year, Mass Concert’s Rock and Shock horror convention and music festival is set to descend upon Worcester, Mass this weekend. Taking over both the DCU Center and Palladium in downtown Worcester, the three-day event will kick off on Friday.
This year’s celebrity guestlist has a heavy focus on the classic Twin Peaks series, with Ray Wise, Sherilyn Fenn, and Eric Dare. Other guests include genre-legends Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Ash vs. Evil Dead), Bill Moseley (3 From Hell, The Devil’s Rejects), Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th 7–10, Hatchet 1-3, Victor Crowley), Derek Mears (Swamp Thing, Friday the 13th), Adam Green (Hatchet 1-3, Victor Crowley, Holliston), Adrienne King (Friday the 13th 1 and 2), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead, The Devil’s Rejects), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Katherine Kamhi (Sleepaway Camp), and more.
Some of the panel highlights this year:
- “ The Counselor and the Killer” with Friday the 13th stars Kane Hodder and Adrienne King
- “A Damn Fine Conversation” with Ray Wise, Sherilyn Fenn, Eric Dare, will take a retrospective look at the Twin Peaks series and its lasting impression on television, on Saturday.
- Hometown boy Adam Green returns to the Bay State with Derek Mears for what’s being called “We’ll Come Up With Something” on Saturday.
- “The Saw is Family” will look back at the lasting legacy of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with Edwin Neal, John Duggan, Bill Moseley, Bill Johnson and Dan Yeager, on Saturday.
- Bruce Campbell will close the show on Sunday with his panel “Who’s Laughing Now.”
Folk-metal acts Eluveitie and Korpiklaani are set to headline the musical portion of the show at the Palladium on Friday night. Then, Insane Clown Posse will bring their “Wicked Weekends” hip-hop tour to Worcester on Saturday, with Green Jelly, Ouija, Macc and Big Hoodoo. Finally, heavy metal bands Municiple Waste, Napalm Death and Sick of it All close out the show on Sunday.
Rock and Shock kicks off this Friday, October 11 and runs through Sunday, October 13th at the DCU Center and Palladium in Worcester, Mass.
Tickets can be purchased at RockandShock.com or in-person at the DCU Center.
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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