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Real Life: Cure Found for ‘Werewolf Boy’
It’s a slow news week, so I thought I’d share this crazy piece of news with you guys. While that BS piece of news floats around the web regarding THE WOLFMAN remake, an online paper in the UK is reporting that a real-life “werewolf boy” is losing his hair. Beyond the break you can read all about a new cure for hypertrichosis, along with a picture of one of the patients (yowsers!).
Pruthviraj Patil, 11, is one of just 50 people in the world with the rare genetic condition, called hypertrichosis.
Pruthviraj’s family have tried a range of treatments – including homeopathy, traditional Indian Ayurvedic remedies and more recently laser surgery – but none has proved successful.
Now, following a worldwide appeal to doctors to help him find a permanent cure, scientists at Columbia University, in New York, believe they might have found one – by injecting the patient with testosterone.
Their research was filmed as part of a US television documentary called ‘My Shocking Story: Real Wolf Kids’.
It followed the lives of a number of children living in Mumbai, India, including Pruthviraj, who were suffering with hypertrichosis.
The thick matted hair that covers Pruthviraj’s face has caused him to be stared at and bullied throughout his childhood, and he rarely leaves his home village in India because of the cruelty of strangers.
When Pruthviraj was born villagers told his mother she had given birth to a God. Others thought he was a supernatural creature and a bad omen because of his unique appearance.
But despite his abnormal hair growth Pruthviraj, who is from the district of Sangli, near Bombay, is healthy, sporty and popular at school.
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‘Mockbuster’ Trailer: Documentary Captures Impossible Mission to Direct a Movie for The Asylum
If you can’t beat Hollywood, knock it off.
That’s not just the conceit behind low-budget film studio The Asylum, but for the hilarious and heartfelt documentary Mockbuster, chronicling a director’s strange journey helming The Land That Time Forgot.
From Executive Producer and famed documentarian David Farrier, Mockbuster opens in select theaters and on digital platforms beginning July 10.
In the documentary, “A struggling filmmaker’s opportunity collides with chaos and compromise when Sharknado’s notorious studio, The Asylum, invites him to direct a ‘mockbuster.’ With six days, a micro budget, and mounting pressure, Mockbuster is a comedic, behind-the-scenes documentary exploring the balance between low-budget filmmaking and creative ambition.”
Watch the charming trailer below that introduces director Anthony Frith as he decides to shoot his shot by pitching himself to The Asylum to direct a lost-world dinosaur epic.
Inexplicably, they say yes.
What follows is a madcap production in suburban Adelaide, shot in just six days on a budget that could generously be described as “aspirational.”
Frith is tasked with only six days to shoot The Land That Time Forgot, but he’s also helming the behind-the-scenes documentary, Mockbuster. In other words, Mockbuster marks the double feature debut by Frith.
“I went into this project thinking that directing a dinosaur movie for The Asylum would be fun, and that it would make for a hilarious behind-the-scenes doc,” Frith previously told Variety. “From the outside, they look like Hollywood’s punk rockers, working fast and loose. But somewhere between receiving the script on Sunday and shooting on Monday, I started to see their true genius: controlled chaos – a method that, against all odds, produces movies audiences keep coming back for.”
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