Have your self a scary little Christmas.
A brand new parody movie, “The Imply One,” is slashing by the snow with a twisted take on the vacation traditional “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” It reimagines that the massive, inexperienced, disgruntled furball (performed by David Howard Thornton, “Terrifier”) didn’t really save Whoville — right here rechristened as Newville — from a Dec. 25 with out presents.
As an alternative, he was stalkin’ across the Christmas tree and slaughtering the mom of wide-eyed little Cindy You-Know-Who (Krystle Martin). However 20 years after their first fateful encounter, the now-grown-up tot is hellbent on revenge because the movie takes audiences on a slay-ride in theaters beginning Dec. 9.
Nonetheless, it isn’t the one flick that’s turning harmless, beloved childhood characters into murderous monsters. A brand new, surprising horror movie development is setting its sights on essentially the most virtuous creations — and even the filmmakers themselves could also be questioning what cracked their craniums.
“I don’t know if there’s one thing damaged in my mind as a baby or no matter, however, like, children’ cartoons — particularly the actually outdated ones in youngsters’s books — these drawings actually freaked me out,” confessed “The Imply One” director Steven LaMorte in a current interview with horror web site Dread Central.
“If we actually thought of a inexperienced, furry, Bigfoot, Sasquatch — no matter you need to name it — that lives on a mountain and hates Christmas, is he gonna be giving hugs and high-fives? No,” LaMorte continued. “This factor is gonna be consuming faces and, you realize, slicing folks up and inflicting mayhem.”
Wherever the inspiration originated, listed below are a few of the different former innocents which can be getting violent revisions within the not-too-distant future.
‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’
(In theaters: Feb. 15, 2023)
The furry — and now feral — Pooh bear is popping Hundred Acre Wooden into Hundred Scare Wooden after youngsters’s illustrator E.H. Shepard and writer A.A. Milne’s plush pal hit the general public area earlier this 12 months.
Apparently the tubby little cubby continues to be all filled with fluff — plus a beneficiant quantity of furor — as Pooh (performed by Craig David Dowsett) and sidekick Piglet (Chris Cordell) search revenge for being deserted by Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon). “They’ve gone again to their animal roots. They’re now not tame: They’re like a vicious bear and pig who need to go round and attempt to discover prey,” director Rhys Frake-Waterfield informed Selection final spring about their horrific new looking floor.
A lot for the willy, nilly, foolish outdated bear.
‘Bambi: The Reckoning’
(Filming begins in January 2023)
Bambi’s bunny buddy Thumper adopted one rule: “If you happen to can’t say one thing good, don’t say nothing in any respect.” Doesn’t sound like that can apply right here.
ITN Studios and Jagged Edge Productions, the studios behind “The Imply One,” might be again with one other story of obvious revenge, this one starring a sure orphaned deer. “Bambi might be a vicious killing machine that lurks within the wilderness. Put together for Bambi on rabies!” mentioned excited filmmaker Scott Jeffrey in asserting the mission simply final month. The “extremely darkish retelling” of the already surprisingly darkish 1922 story and brighter 1942 Disney animated flick might be produced by none aside from “Pooh” retooler Frake-Waterfield. (Sense a sample right here?)
Don’t anticipate a lot frollicking on ice — extra like placing folks on ice.
‘Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare’
(Simply introduced)
Tinker Bell could also be caught in Tinker Hell.
Frake-Waterfield, the “Blood and Honey” filmmaker apparently obsessive about crushing our childhoods, tipped off the Hollywood Reporter that he's additionally dreaming up a nightmarish state of affairs for Peter Pan, a ok a “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Develop Up.” Whether or not which means a bloodier confrontation with Captain Hook — they could have to vary the cap’s ship’s identify to the Much less-Than-Jolly Roger — or one thing far worse, we don’t know but.
However Frake-Waterfield’s description of his upcoming Pooh-and-Piglet mission might function an excellent indicator: “All of their hatred that they’ve constructed up through the years unleashes they usually go on this rampage,” he informed the Growth Hell podcast final 12 months.
Peter Pan followers most likely ought to plan for greater than only a mid-flight clipping of Tinker Bell’s wings.
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