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Five Stellar Splatter Scenes from Zeds Dead
What I love about horror is that people can be super passionate about specific subgenres within the overarching umbrella. Some love psychological thrillers while others love supernatural terrors. But for Toronto electronic duo Zeds Dead, it’s all about the splatter! And they love it when it comes from horror or even when it’s a non-horror film. And you know that with their name being a reference to Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, there’s gonna be a couple of his films on there.
Check out the five picks from Zeds Dead below and let us know your favorite splatter scenes, horror or non-horror, in the comments below!
If you’re in the Tucson, AZ area, make sure to check out Zeds Dead at Life in Color this Saturday. Tickets can be purchased here. Also, you can snag music from Zeds Dead via iTunes!
The Shining – Elevator Blood Scene
“One of my favourite movies of all time, the scene where Danny foresees the see of blood rushing from the elevator doors, and general nightmarish visions of The Overlook Hotel…. bone chilling.”
Drive – Motel Scene
“Shit hits the fan, a girl gets her head blown off with a shotgun in slow motion, three people are brutally murdered in about a minute and a half, Ryan Gosling behaves like a weirdo. Very cool.”
Django Unchained – Candyland Shootout
“Incredibly satisfying moment where everyone gets what’s coming to them. Tarantino definitely knows how give you what you want when it comes to people getting brutally murdered in revenge type scenarios.””
Inglorious Basterds – Movie Theatre Fire/Hitler’s Death
“Hitler gets shot like 300 times in the face. Nazis get blown up and burned in an elaborate revenge plot. Cinematic excellence.”
American Psycho – “Huey Lewis and the News”
“Patrick Bateman being a psycho in the most entertaining way. Cool how they always show his OCD tendencies and how crazily far he takes them.”
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The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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