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Looks Like ‘Beast’ Will Be Clawing Its Way Onto Peacock Before Halloween
Over the weekend, Universal’s creature feature Beast gobbled up $11.5 million at the domestic box office, but when will you be able to watch Idris Elba fight a lion at home?
Peacock sent out a press release teasing their upcoming arrivals for Halloween – including Halloween Ends on October 14! – and it’s worth noting that Beast is included in that list.
From Peacock’s press release this afternoon…
“Peacock’s Halloween Horror destination will feature more thrilling film arrivals leading into Halloween including new movies THE BLACK PHONE and BEAST coming straight from theaters along with other horror films streaming on Peacock including original film THEY/THEM from Blumhouse along with YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT, SEPARATION from director William Brent Bell, and some of the most iconic horror franchises of all time including CHUCKY, SAW, HALLOWEEN, TREMORS, and PHANTASM, plus many more titles to be announced.”
The new streaming window for Universal films arriving on Peacock is 45 days, which means you can probably expect Beast to head home on Peacock sometime in early October.
In Beast, “A recently widowed man (Idris Elba) and his two teenage daughters travel to a game reserve in South Africa. However, their journey of healing soon turns into a fight for survival when a bloodthirsty lion starts to stalk them.”
Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, Adrift) directed Beast for Universal Pictures. Based on an idea by Jaime Primak-Sullivan, Ryan Engle (Rampage) wrote the script.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her 3-star review for Bloody Disgusting (read it here), “Beast may not bite as hard as it’d like, but it’s entertaining enough while it lasts.”
Idris Elba as Nathan in Beast, directed by Baltasar Kormákur.
In case you haven’t noticed, the public domain status of beloved icons like Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella and Mickey Mouse has been wreaking havoc on the horror genre in the past couple years, with filmmakers itching to get their hands on the characters and put them into twisted situations. In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh slashers, well, Pooh is about to battle Mickey.
It’s not from the same team behind the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films, to be clear, but Deadline reports that Glen Douglas Packard (Pitchfork) will direct the horror movie Mickey vs. Winnie for Untouchables Entertainment and the website iHorror.
Deadline details, “The film follows two convicts in the 1920s who escape into a cursed forest only to be dragged and consumed into the depths of the dark forest’s muddy heart.
“A century later, a group of thrill-seeking friends unknowingly venture into the same woods. Their Airbnb getaway takes a horrifying turn when the convicts mutate into twisted versions of childhood icons Mickey Mouse & Winnie-The-Pooh, and emerge to terrorize them. A night of violence and gore erupts, as the group of friends battle against their now monstrous beloved childhood characters and fight to break free from the forest’s grip.
“In a horrific spectacle, Mickey and Winnie clash, painting the woods in a gruesome tableau of blood—a chilling testament to the curse’s insidious power.”
Glen Douglas Packard wrote the screenplay that he’ll be directing.
“Horror fans call for the thrill of witnessing icons like the new Aliens and Avengers sharing the screen. While licensing nightmares make such crossovers rare, Mickey vs. Winnie serves as our tribute to that thrilling fantasy,” Packard said in a statement this week.
Producer Anthony Pernicka from iHorror previews, “We’re thrilled to unveil this unique take to horror fans. The Mickey Mouse featured in our film is unlike any iteration audiences have encountered before. Our portrayal doesn’t involve characters donning basic masks. Instead, we present deeply transformed, live-action horror renditions of these iconic figures, weaving together elements of innocence and malevolence. After experiencing the intense scenes we’ve crafted, you’ll never look at Mickey the same way again.”
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