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Don’t Look Up (remake) (V)
“What a mess. The latest effort from Fruit Chan––the dude behind the super-awesome “Dumplings” segment of 3 Extremes––is a baffling cluster-fuck of a movie, about a director attempting to remake a mysterious lost film. At first it wants to be Popcorn. And then it sort of wants to be The Manitou. But in the end, it’s just a whole lotta bullshit.”
What a mess. The latest effort from Fruit Chan––the dude behind the super-awesome “Dumplings” segment of 3 Extremes––is a baffling cluster-fuck of a movie, about a director attempting to remake a mysterious lost film. At first it wants to be Popcorn. And then it sort of wants to be The Manitou. But in the end, it’s just a whole lotta bullshit.
Beginning with four printed paragraphs detailing a convoluted gypsy legend, Don’t Look Up lost me before the opening credits. What is this 8 minute crawl about, are they recapping the first film in a trilogy? SHOW, don’t TELL, bitches! Apparently a horny gypsy lady made a pact with the gypsy devil to find her a man, but in exchange she has to give birth to a devil baby with a skin membrane wrapped around its face. Or something.
Enter Eli Roth, an old-timey movie director struggling valiantly to maintain both a Romanian accent and a super-gay ‘stache. He’s attempting to film an adaptation of the afore mentioned gypsy legend, but his lead actress vanishes and the finished film is never found. Exit Eli Roth.
Present day. A whole ‘nother director hauls his cast and crew to “The Transylvanian Pleateau” in an attempt to remake the director’s lost classic. Not a good idea. Before long the entire decrepit movie set is belabored by all manner of ghostly, murderous activity. Blood drips randomly from the ceiling, there are vomit-inducing smells, some crazily overlapping camera images hamper the production, and swarms of flying bugs eat out the eyeballs of some members of the cast and crew. Not to mention the random neck growths. Despite the nonsensical plotting, the make-ups are surprisingly sloppy-good. But the whole thing doesn’t make a lick of sense.
Even Fruit seems bored, wasting oodles of time depicting the tepid arguments between producer Henry Thomas and his psycho director Marcus, who did I mention suffers from “apparitional experiences“? That‘s right. He can see ghosts and shit, Haley Joel Osment-style. The flick even sports a short-round Romanian lackey who bears a striking resemblance to James Duvall. It’s got EVERYTHING! But none of it’s good.
Adam Wingard (You’re Next, The Guest) is getting back to his roots with A24‘s Onslaught, and many fans have been wondering if the events of the upcoming film connect in any way to one of Wingard’s previous movies, The Guest. After all, they do seem to be cut from a similar cloth, with some speculating that they might take place in the same universe.
But is there any truth to that speculation? In a new interview out of San Diego Comic-Con this week, Adam Wingard has revealed that the fans are definitely onto something!
Wingard explains, “I look at this as a cap in the trilogy between The Guest and You’re Next. It’s not like a direct sequel, in the sense that it’s a continuation of those characters, but it takes place in the same town as The Guest. The idea is that the secret programs we’re seeing going on here are other little aspects of the same thing David’s character came from in The Guest.”
“So you could actually technically call this a sequel,” Wingard admits. “It’s in the same universe.”
‘The Guest’
Releasing in theaters on September 4, Adam Wingard’s Onslaught is Rated ‘R’ for “Strong bloody violence, some gore, sexual material/nudity, and language.”
Watch the previously released Onslaught trailer below.
The duo behind The Guest, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, are re-teaming for the upcoming Onslaught, which stars Adria Arjona in the leading role.
Here’s the synopsis: “When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter.”
Rebecca Hall (The Night House, Godzilla x Kong) and Dan Stevens (The Guest) also star in Adam Wingard’s upcoming new movie Onslaught alongside Michael Biehn, Reginald VelJohnson, Eric Wareheim, Drew Starkey, and Alex “Poatan” Pereira.
Dan Stevens starred alongside Maika Monroe in 2014 action-thriller The Guest. He played a mysterious ex-soldier with a secret agenda who wreaks havoc on a small town.
‘Onslaught’
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