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‘Jack Brooks’ Sequel Bigger, Badder and With More Monsters!
A new interview was posted online this morning with Jon Knautz, director of Anchor Bay’s Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, which is now available on DVD everywhere. During the chat, he revealed that they are already pretty far along in developing a sequel to the film, which they plan on shooting next summer. Read on for the skinny.
“We’re currently in script development, we haven’t actually spun out a draft yet, but we’re quite far into development,” Knautz tells Bloody Good Horror. “Far enough that there’s no turning back. We knew we didn’t have the money to do a full blown action/horror movie with part 1, we just didn’t have the money. So the gameplan was to make a movie about a guy who becomes a monster slayer, and then the action hits you at the end. With Part 2 now, we’re looking to raise quite a bit more money… people will get what they want in this one for sure, if they like the end of the first one.”
He also reveals that the sequel will be jammed with more monsters.
“Oh ya, there’s already twice as many in this one as there was in the first one, and they’re way cooler. Everything’s a lot better. We learned a lot from making the first movie. This time around it’s funnier, scarier… as of now it’s definitely creepier, more action. All around better. It’s gonna be a matter of getting the cash, which isn’t 100%, but it looks good. So we’ll go for it and then it’s a matter of surviving the shoot… it’s going to kick my ass man. The first one was hard enough but, this one’s going to fucking destroy me (laughs). I’ll just drink Red Bull and get through it.”
Knautz also revealed that the sequel will bring another star into the mix, making it a potential buddy horror-comedy.
“There will be new characters, and Jack sort of partners up with someone else. Actually, It’s more like they are forced to work with each other. He kind of gets caught up in this scenario where he’s taken advantage of and then realizes later on that he was sort of used to kill monsters he wasn’t necessarily supposed to kill, and it kind of leads him into this whole new adventure he gets caught up in.”
Click the link for the full interview.
Jack Brooks is an angry, young plumber who has repressed the memory of witnessing his family’s brutal murder. Only when he unknowingly awakens an ancient evil, is Jack forced to confront his past, deal with the monstrous reality of the present and discover the true purpose of his inner rage.
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After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.