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‘The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra’ Trailer – Psychedelic Creature Feature Introduces Vertebra Munching Monster
A brand new trailer for psychedelic creature feature The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra debuted today, introducing a bizarre sentient entity born from a gnarly mattress. Guard your spines; this one appears to be a vertebra munching monster.
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra is set to release on SVOD service IndiePlex Unlimited on October 20, 2023.
In the film, “After a mysterious mold starts spreading across the surface of an abandoned mattress, a sentient creature begins to take shape from within. Feasting on its unsuspecting victims’ vertebrae while they rest, the creature grows stronger, finding nourishment not only in the bones and sinew it assimilates but also in the hopes, fears, and emotions of all those it encounters.”
Check out the new trailer below, which might terrify the germophobes out there. A mold-covered mattress gets new life when a creature emerges from inside. Something tells me the horror metaphors will get pretty weird as mold evolves into something a bit more nefarious here. Expect to follow along the weirdness as the mold evolves into sentience and its encounters along the way.
The film is written and directed by Syeyoung Park. It stars Jihyeon Park, Hyein Moon, and Seokyoung Haam. Syeyoung Park and Jiheyon Park produce.
The press release says of the creature feature, “Hailed as both ‘innovative’ and a ‘new kind of creature feature’ (The Austin Chronicle), Syeyoung Park’s THE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA, a festival favorite around the globe and winner of Best Director and Audience Awards at Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival and a Special Mention at Fantasia Fest, is a ‘melancholic, monstrous romantic horror’ (Projected Figures) that is ‘as weird as it is unique’ (Asian Movie Pulse).”
It might also be worth noting that The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra clocks in at an easy, breezy 64-minute runtime.
Get weird with a surreal creature feature when The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra releases next month, on October 20.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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