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‘Halloween Costume Cruelty’: Watch ‘Hatchet’ Director Adam Green’s New Short Film

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For the past 20+ years, Adam Green and his ArieScope team have been creating an annual horror short for Halloween, and the gang is back this year with a brand new short film.

This year’s short is titled Halloween Costume Cruelty, starring Max Tretta as a kid on Halloween night who’s been saddled with a terrible Victor Crowley costume.

The short pokes fun at the bad Halloween costumes parents buy for their kids, presented as an ad for a faux organization that helps combat that particular Halloween crime.

The Ariescope team previews, “A public service announcement about a problem that far too many children face every Halloween. Won’t you please help? Please share this video with your friends and spread the word about this important cause!”

This is the 24th annual Halloween short film from filmmaker Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen) and ArieScope Pictures. All 24 years of the annual Halloween short films and MORE are available to watch FREE and UNCENSORED on Green’s official website: www.ArieScope.com.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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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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