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Trailer Edit Turns ‘The Shining’ into… a Sam Raimi Film?!
Because why the hell not, right?
The 1980s kicked off with a bang thanks to, to name just two films, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) and Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981). One film proved that one of the most respected filmmakers in Hollywood could do horror as well as he could do everything else, while the other brought a fresh new voice onto the scene.
But what if Sam Raimi had directed The Shining? Okay, so it’s probably a question you’ve never actually asked yourself. Because why would you? But one fan, for whatever reason, did just ask himself that question.
Likely after noting some similarities between The Shining and The Evil Dead, YouTuber Niklas Kelliher cut together a fan trailer for Sam Raimi’s The Shining, using clips from Kubrick’s film and both the audio and frenetic sensibilities of the Evil Dead 2 trailer.
Of course, none of the iconic images from The Shining would exist as we know them without Kubrick bringing them to the screen, but it’s a fun take on the trailer for The Shining that puts a bit of a different spin on the 1980 masterpiece.
Check it out below. And be sure to watch until the very end.
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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