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Monroeville Zombies 12 Inch Cop Figure…
Time and Space Toys, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of its Monroeville Zombies project, which will premiere at the HorrorFind Weekend convention in the Baltimore/Washington, DC-area next week, with an exclusive 12″ Zombie Cop Action Figure (aka Officer Kane Heinz). The Zombie Cop will be the first of several 12″ zombie action figures, at 1/6 scale, to be released throughout the year at various venues. Read on for more info and a look.
A limited number of only fifty Monroeville Zombies 12″ Zombie Cop figures will be produced and available at the show. This individually numbered, limited edition figure, manufactured by Peril Unlimited, is fully poseable, with real cloth clothing and detailed police accessories. The figure has two layers of production. After being factory-produced and painted in China, the figures are transferred to the United States for more work. A special, secondary paint application gives the figures a very realistic textured look, and special distressing of the clothing gives them that perfect worn-and-torn zombie look. This launch figure will be the most limited of all the Monroeville Zombies figures.
Decades ago, the modern horror film was created with a tale of zombies laying siege to a shopping mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. While the film was fiction, its following was and continues to be very real. Monroeville Zombies is a new project based on the concept that life (and in this case, death too) imitates art. What happens when zombie fans and real zombies collide? The Monroeville Zombies project tells that story and parodies both the survival horror genre and its fandom.
“We are thrilled to launch the Monroeville Zombies 12″ action figure line with our very limited edition figure, Zombie Officer Kane Heinz,” says Time and Space Toys President Kevin Kriess. “Officer Heinz joined the hordes of the living dead while attempting to secure the mall in a now-classified security incident within the tale of Monroeville Zombies. He’s a great zombie character that fits right in with other 1/6 scale lines in need of extra ghouls”.
About Time and Space Toys, LLC:
Time and Space Toys is an online retailer of high quality, licensed toys and collectibles based on entertainment properties. Its brick and mortar store, Toy Galaxy, located in the historic Monroeville Mall, boasts a huge sales floor packed with unique merchandise and a knowledgeable sales staff. Toy Galaxy is dedicated to keeping the memory classic horror films alive by collaborating with the horror film industry and fans on opportunities to celebrate the location where the modern horror film began. Future Monroeville Zombies endeavors will include a mall tour and themed attraction, a comic book series, a clothing line and other collectibles. For more information, visit www.timeandspacetoys.com, www.MonroevilleZombies.com or Toy Galxy on the lower level of the Monroeville Mall.
About HorrorFind Weekend:
HorrorFind Weekend, a giant horror convention billed as “the spookiest show on earth,” features horror movie writers and actors, Halloween seminars, supernatural speakers, a giant dealers room and many special events. For more information, visit www.horrorfindweekend.com.
About Peril Unlimited:
Peril Unlimited is a small company founded by zombie aficionado Michael Jones. The company is the home of the Zombie Army Building Program and specializes in manufacturing extremely detailed 1/6 scale zombie action figures. For more information, visit www.perilunlimited.com.
There’s been a lot of talk about how Christopher Nolan snuck in some horror elements into his epic adaptation of The Odyssey. However, even before the Cyclops began to eat Ithican soldiers and Circe subjected them to magical body-horror, cinemagoers were already witnessing supernatural terror through a certain trailer that was attached to most IMAX screenings of Nolan’s film.
It turns out that this trailer was for Rob Savage’s Other Mommy, an adaptation of Bird Box author Josh Malerman’s horror novel, Incidents Around the House. With the teaser now available online and revealing that the award-winning Jessica Chastain is playing the titular antagonist (as well as her ill-fated human counterpart), not to mention the fact that the picture is being helmed by the director of hits like Host and The Boogeyman, genre fans are understandably hyped for this upcoming thriller.
That’s why I’ve decided to take a closer look at the trailer and share four things we learned from this sneak peek at Other Mommy!
4. Rob Savage is Going Back to His Supernatural Horror Roots
I know I’m in the minority when I admit that Dashcam is my favorite Rob Savage movie, but even I understand why the filmmakers’ fans have been waiting a while for the director to get back to telling more grounded paranormal stories as he did with 2020’s Host.
Other Mommy obviously isn’t a found footage movie, but moments like the poltergeist activity on the kitchen table combined with the nature of the source material, which actually features a full-on exorcism, indicate that this adaptation is more than a simple creature feature. That’s why I think Savage is once again going to borrow from the same ghostly narratives that made his debut film such a viral hit.
3. Other Mommy is a More Convincing Doppelganger in the Adaptation
Part of the horror from Malerman’s original novel came from the fact that the entity taking on the form of Bela’s (Arabella Olivia Clark) mother wasn’t very good at passing itself off as human. This resulted in several uncanny moments where other characters began to notice that there was something visibly wrong with the family and decided to keep their distance.
Savage’s film appears to be taking a different route, with the trailer showing a version of the entity that can, at least physically, imitate Chastain’s character perfectly. This change is likely the result of the filmmakers wanting to incorporate more paranoid scenes where Bela and her father, played by Jay Duplass, are confused about which Mommy is safe to interact with.
2. The Family is Also Better Off This Time Around
Incidents Around the House featured some interesting subtext about how poverty can negatively affect American family dynamics. After all, the main characters were already feeling scared and isolated before the entity emerged from Bela’s closet and began scratching at their emotional wounds. The trailer for the movie, however, depicts the family as being relatively well off before these incidents begin to occur.
I can only imagine that this part of the story was changed so that the family’s fall from grace can be even more dramatic as the mom and dad’s pasts are revealed and Bela falls further into the clutches of the demonic antagonist.
1. Jessica Chastain is Embodying Evil Dead Rise’s Alyssa Sutherland
Mothers turning against their children is one of the most disturbing horror tropes out there (just check out classics like Hereditary and Carrie if you need proof), but it takes a remarkably skilled actress to pull off such a monstrous transformation. This is especially true when both a regular, loving mother and the Other share the screen in the same film.
That’s why I appreciate how Chastain appears to be channeling another evil redhead mother that recently traumatized audiences with her performance. It’s too early to be sure, but I’m fairly confident that Chastain’s character has at least some amount of Ellie in her cinematic DNA – Ellie being the iconic deadite brought to life by Australian actress Alyssa Sutherland in 2023’s Evil Dead Rise.
Let us know in the comments if you think we missed any important details from the trailer, and don’t forget to check out Other Mommy when it hits theaters on October 9!
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