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Kevin Bacon Still Waiting to Return for a New ‘Tremors’ Movie

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While the Tremors franchise has never stopped churning out new entries, one actor who’s been missing from all the sequels is original star Kevin Bacon. Oddly enough, Bacon actually did reprise the role of Valentine McKee for the pilot episode of a Tremors television series that never got off the ground, which to date has never actually been released to the public.

With Michael Gross at the helm, the original Tremors franchise just released its seventh installment back in 2020. But will we ever see Kevin Bacon return to the franchise proper?

Taking to Twitter over the weekend, Bacon once again expressed interest in battling Graboids one more time as Valentine McKee, responding to a fan’s tweet to make that clear.

I’m just waiting for the call…” Bacon tweeted on Friday in response to a fan of the franchise who expressed interest in seeing a new Tremors movie that’s not “direct to DVD.”

The Tremors franchise has indeed been direct-to-video since the first sequel in 1996, which saw the late Fred Ward reprise the role of Valentine McKee’s best buddy, Earl Bassett.

Here’s hoping Kevin Bacon gets that call while he’s still hungry to make his return.

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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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