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This Terrifying Sea Monster Was Almost in ‘Kong: Skull Island’
Not that Kong: Skull Island necessarily needed more monsters, as it was loaded with awesome ones, but director Jordan Vogt-Roberts just shared a concept sketch for a creature that *almost* made it into the film… and goddamn, we kinda wish it did!
“Here’s an unused creature design for Kong,” Vogt-Roberts tweeted. “There was a whole sequence written for this creepy guy from an early draft.”
The creepy drawing, which looks to be from artist Stephanie Levallois, shows an underwater sea creature lurking beneath a boat. It’s got massive spider-like legs that are breaching the surface of the water, and a face that I’m pretty sure its own mother couldn’t even love. True nightmare fuel, to say the very least.
In case you missed it, Vogt-Roberts also recently shared Skull Island concept art for an unused LSD dream sequence that likely would’ve been totally bonkers!
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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