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Reminder: Get Your Videos in for the Insane ‘Hellbenders’ Contest!
Still raging on, the deadline is nearing for our Hellbenders promotion. You have the chance to get your short featured IN the J.T. Petty-directed exorcism flick starring Clifton Collins, Clancy Brown and Dan Fogler. Shot in -3D, it takes place in modern day New York where a team of holy men (consisting of ministers and priests) battle the forces of evil.
This upcoming major 3-D movie is looking for juicy, bloody, awesomely heinous devil possession & exorcism footage. Watch the video below and then click here to learn how to enter. Our panel of gore-savvy judges will pick the top three. The winning videos will be featured IN THE movie and you get a CREDIT in the film! How freaking cool, no?!
Upload your video entry by Monday June 27th. Winners announced Friday, July 1st! Note that Winning parties will be required to sign a license agreement.
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Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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