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Original Cursed Video to Appear In ‘Rings’?!
Director F. Javier Gutierrez has been hard at work on the Paramount lot editing Rings, the third installment in the U.S. The Ring franchise that’s set to curse audiences this coming November 13, 2015.
Gutierrez has been sharing all sorts of behind-the-scenes goodies via his Instagram, a few of which caught my attention.
If we’re to go by what he’s been sharing, it looks as if Rings will use the original cursed video (see below) that appeared in Gore Verbinski’s 2002 horror masterpiece.
At the time, the haunted video was imprinted onto a VHS cassette, which is clearly a bit dated. Now, with digitization such a simple process, I expect to see Samara haunting kids using modern technology – like with smart phones.
Interestingly enough, Gutierrez also shared a photo with him and Jonathan Liebesman, which is interesting considering Liebesman helmed the incredible short, “Rings,” which accompanied the purchase of The Ring 2 on home video in 2005. Could there be a tie-in here?
Rings stars Johnny Galecki, best known as Leonard in “The Big Bang Theory.”
Galecki will play Gabriel, a handsome, pleasure-seeking professor who mentors and helps boyfriend and girlfriend duo, Holt (Alex Roe) and Julia (Matilda Lutz). Scream 4‘s Aimee Teegarden rounds out the main cast.
It’s a direct sequel to The Ring 2, although there were plans on having it be part prequel, which didn’t come into fruition when the filmmakers were allegedly unable to lock down original star Naomi Watts.
With the original almost 15 years old already, can the new incarnation bring younger, newer horror fans into Samara’s world? The Ring, in my opinion, is one of the scariest movies ever made. The Ring 2 was a disaster. Can Rings reinvigorate the curse?
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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