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[Random Cool] Video Edition: This is Halloween!
Going viral in less than 24 hours, the above 2011 Halloween light show gives homage to Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. It features four singing pumpkin faces, tombstones, hand-carved pumpkins, strobes, floods and thousands of lights. Most all lights have been changed from incandescent to RGB LED so power consumption is a lot less than previous years. Also DMX added to show. All lights, faces and props are custom made (DIY) by the poster except for the roof line which are CCRs. Controlling channels have gone up 8X from last year. 1144 channels. Light-O-Rama. Head to Riverside, CA to see in person.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg as after the break you’re going to find a slew of new horror-themed videos that rage from a classic ’70s Universal Studios commercial featuring Alfred Hitchcock to “Freddy vs Jason: The Rematch” and g4 Films’ “Mario Kart” horror short, “Kart Driver”. Discovered on an old umatic tape, below you’ll find a old Universal Studios commercial from the 1970’s that features the elusive Alfred Hitchcock (and a look at Jaws like you’ve never seen him before!)
Those of you addicted to claymation as much as I am will enjoy “Postman Pat’s Pet Sematary“, a gory retelling of the Stephen King classic.
I love a good fanmade horror film that brings the filmmakers’ favorite icons back to the screen. Such the case with Freddy vs Jason: The Rematch, which comes courtesy of the Beat Down Boogie crew. Featuring a cool battle between Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, the film stars Brian Lee and Matthew Sumner and was directed, shot and cut by Micah Moore.
G4 Films’ Epictober Film Festival rolls on today with the second short-horror film, “Kart Driver,” which takes the “Mario Kart” franchise on a darker, deadlier spin.
Fury and obsession leads a heroic plumber to seek out and bring home his damsel in distress, the girl of his dreams, even if it means facing off with a creature from the very bowels of hell. “Kart Driver” is directed by Drew Daywalt, a founding member of FEWDIO, the world’s first online Horror Troupe, dedicated to all things dark and fantastical. Tomorrow the G4 Films Epictober Film Festival concludes with “The Birds of Anger,” an homage to Hitchcock’s classic, The Birds with an “Angry Birds” twist.
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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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