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There Was a Shot from Fulci’s ‘The Beyond’ in Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’?!
You really do learn something new every day.
Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, released in 1981, is home to some of the most gruesome carnage you’ll ever see. One of the standout scenes involves spiders literally tearing a dude apart, and I haven’t been able to scrub it from my brain since I first saw the movie well over a decade ago. But what I never realized, I must admit, is that Sam Raimi used a shot from that scene in Spider-Man!
Yes, Raimi lifted a shot from Fulci’s The Beyond for his first Spider-Man film, which is one of those crazy fun facts that I’m shocked I had never heard before. Raimi actually revealed this little tidbit on the film’s DVD commentary track, and one fan just took it upon himself to edit together the two scenes (along with Raimi’s insights playing over the clips) for a YouTube video.
Long story short, there was no money in the budget for a dream sequence that Raimi wanted to do, so he cobbled together footage from The Beyond and even Darkman to bring it to life.
Check out the video below. Props to Dreadit for the scoop!
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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