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Bloody Disgusting Hosts FREE Minneapolis Advance Screening of ‘The Cabin in the Woods’!!
Bloody Disgusting readers in Minneapolis keep Wednesday, March 28 open as you’ll be one of the first EVER to see a special advance screening of Lionsgate’s The Cabin in the Woods (review), hosted by Bloody and featuring a very special cast appearance and Q&A with director Drew Goddard and star Kristen Connolly!
The kicker? It’s FREE! FREE! FREE!
WHERE: The advance screening takes place @8PM on Wednesday, March 28 at the Kerasotes Showplace ICON at The West End (625 West End Blvd, St. Louis Park, MN 55416).
HOW TO GET TICKETS: It’s incredibly easy to get yourself some free tickets. All you have to do is click HERE or HERE and enter the following pin code: CITW-BLOODY-DISGUSTING
Arrive early! Seats are first come first serve. There will also be giveaways of an exclusive poster and t-shirts and you’ll be allowed to tell the world what you thought on Facebook/Twitter (no spoilers please)!
“Five Friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen.”
If you think you know this story, think again. From fan favorites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes The Cabin in the Woods, a mind blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out. Produced by Whedon and directed by Goddard from a script by both, the film starts Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford.
Remember – just click HERE or HERE and enter the following pin code: CITW-BLOODY-DISGUSTING – and you’re all set!
The Cabin in the Woods arrives in theaters April 13. For more visit the film’s official website or Facebook. 
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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