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[Kill of the Week] Larry the Larvae Attacks in ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night 5’
Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
If there’s any Christmas horror film that can be considered the most underrated of the bunch, it’d simply have to be Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker.
The Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise is easily the most bizarre of all the horror franchises, ditching the core storyline entirely for its final two installments – Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: The Initiation isn’t even necessarily a Christmas horror movie, oddly enough, while The Toy Maker again presents its own standalone story.
Mickey Rooney, who had famously lashed out against the original Silent Night, Deadly Night for its depiction of a killer Santa Claus, plays Joe Petto in The Toy Maker, a twisted toymaker with an evil plan: not unlike Conal Cochran in Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, Petto builds deadly toys that he hopes will kill all the children on Christmas.
So it’s basically Halloween 3: The Christmas Version, and it’s kinda awesome.
One of those killer toys is Larry the Larvae, which is gifted to an unlucky landlord. As he’s driving home at night, Larry comes to life, jumping down the man’s throat and eventually emerging out of his eye socket. For good measure, the car plummets off a cliff.
Seek this one out. Trust me.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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