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Indie Spotlight: Jaiden Frost and His “Victims of Burial”
Jaiden Frost loves making movies, and he doesn’t back down when the going gets tough. When some of his funding fell through for his latest movie, Victims of Burial, Frost knew he was in a tough spot. Rather than scrap the project, however, he sat down and came up with a plan to make that money back.
The plan is genius.
“We were building so much hype,” Frost told me. “Local news stories, local magazine articles, etc. I couldn’t let it fall flat. So I came up with the idea of making it a book first. Promoting it with a prequel. So we shot a promotional cinematic trailer for it and released the first eight chapters of the prequel for free.”
You can read those first eight chapters on the Victims of Burial Facebook page. What you’ll find in those eight chapters is a story that is as fun and nostalgic as it is scary.
Welker, Nicole, Idira, and Casey have been hunting ghosts together since they were in school in a small town in North Carolina. Idira and Casey…well, they aren’t the strongest members of the group. Unfortunately, they know that Welker and Nicole think so. It doesn’t bother Casey so much, but it’s obviously been eating away at Idira.
So, late one night, she brings Casey along to the old town cemetery in search of the spirit of a woman said to be as violent in death as she was in life. And while Casey is more interested in finding a Gengar on Pokemon Go, he soon finds himself in the middle of a deadly confrontation with old Velma’s ghost
Fun, right? Right! Furthermore, the writer/director promises more novellas and a full novelization of his script to come along as precursors for this film he is determined to make.
:” I don’t feel like failure is an option. There are plenty of roads to take to success, just most people try to stay on the interstate, despite the traffic,” Frost told me when we spoke earlier this week.
Indeed, the project is far too important and personal to the director to give up, now. The books and film are set in the tiny North Carolina town where he grew up and he took pains to make sure that all facets of his town were represented.
“Where I grew up, it was a cultural melting pot. I wanted to show that heavily by making each member of the Buried a different race and giving them all authentic voices that a person of that area would have. This is the first time a Lumbee Native American character has ever existed, a tribe very specific to the region I grew up. They’ve been battling to be considered a nationally recognized tribe for decades and I hope that my project can help them in some way.”
In many ways, this is the very essence of independent film making. Local, homegrown talent showing the world what it’s made of despite the obstacles in its path. jaiden Frost and his team personify this driving, hard working spirit.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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