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[Comic-Con ’13] Mezco Toyz Announces ‘Bride of Chucky’ and Sadako’ Dolls
Mezco, the toy company hiding at booth #3445 at San Diego Comic-Con, has announced a few sweet new horror dolls from their “Living Dead Doll” collection.
The first is “Living Dead Dolls Presents: Chucky and Tiffany”, featuring Chucky and Tiffany from the awesome Bride of Chucky, the fourth Child’s Play film.
“When we released our 1st Chucky Living Dead Doll, he sold out immediately, and fans begged for more Chucky and asked ‘Where’s Tiffany?’” says Mezco’s Mike Drake, “so we knew we had to visit Bride of Chucky and make the fans happy!”
Mezco Toyz has also just revealed one of the most terrifying Living Dead Dolls ever: “Sadako“.
Based on the main character from the Japanese film Sadako 3D, this Living Dead Doll features a screen accurate hairstyle, creepily showcasing her ever watchful eye. Sadoko’s fingernails are also bloody and caked with mud from her climb out of the well.
Sadako is an exclusive Living Dead Doll for Mamegyorai in Japan. She stands 10 inches tall and comes complete with real cloth clothing.
The buried origins of the cinema zombie will be explored in upcoming documentary Black Zombie, and Deadline reports that Kino Lorber has picked up the doc for U.S. release.
Kino Lorber will release Black Zombie in theaters later this year.
From writer and director Maya Annik Bedward, Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried and unsettling origins.
Long before it became associated with flesh-eating ghouls, the zombie was a living metaphor for slavery: not a monster, but the ultimate victim of colonial power.
Deadline further details, “Director Maya Annik Bedward traces the evolution of the zombie from colonial Haiti to contemporary Hollywood, reconsidering iconic films like White Zombie, Night of the Living Dead, and The Serpent and the Rainbow alongside archival footage, vérité scenes, and interviews with cultural historians, artists, and genre legends including Yves-Grégory Francois, Mambo Labelle Déesse, Slash, Tom Savini, and Zandashé Brown. Part cultural reckoning, part horror remix, Black Zombie exposes how a figure born from enslavement, spiritual belief, and resistance was transformed into one of pop culture’s most profitable monsters.”
“I’m thrilled to partner with Kino Lorber on the release of Black Zombie,” said Maya Annik Bedward. “The film explores the power of images to shape our understanding of history, culture, and race, making it especially meaningful to work with a distributor so deeply engaged with cinema’s past and present. Their passion for films that challenge, illuminate, and expand our understanding of the world makes them an ideal partner for bringing this story to audiences across the U.S.”
Kino Lorber’s Karoliina Dwyer adds, “The zombie is one of the most iconic images in cinema, and you’ll never look at them the same after watching Black Zombie. Maya Annik Bedward has crafted a fascinating, deeply researched documentary that unearths the long-buried Haitian origins of the genre, interrogating colonial, political, and Hollywood history to powerful and illuminating effect. We’re so proud to bring this documentary to U.S. audiences this fall.”
Executive producers for the documentary include music legend Slash.
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