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Review: ‘Little Dead Riding Hood’ A Frighteningly Fun Fairy Tale Book
Grimm’s various fairy tales have been adapted and translated into a variety of forms across so many different mediums. Some rooted in the original’s… grim tone and style, while others opting for more lighter and child friendly fare. Now we have a gory cartoonish version that veers straight into splatstick comedy territory with Little Dead Riding Hood!
The book was written and drawn by Two-time Academy Award-winner Bill Kopp. His numerous credits include co-creating and voicing the titular character of Fox Kids TV series Eek! The Cat, the cartoon segments of Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer, and the final episode of Tales From The Crypt: The Third Pig which he wrote and co-directed. Little Dead Riding Hood sharing a similar style and content as that infamous fable finale. And told entirely in rhyme! If you’re a fan of that particular Tales episode, this storybook is for you.
The plot follows a nasty, voracious Wolf as he stalks the forest for some easy prey to devour to try and sate his endless hunger. Soon encountering a rather naive Little Red Riding Hood and offering to accompany her to grandma’s house for a birthday party… only to guide her into his bloodthirsty jaws instead! Despite the usual story taking a downer turn, it’s not the end. As the Wolf soon finds himself haunted by his misdeeds and ghosts from his past out for a brutal revenge against the big bad beast!
Little Dead Riding Hood is a fun twist on an old classic. The main highlight being the various illustrations by Kopp which range from cartoonishly sweet and fantastical to absurdly gory and bloody! Featuring the Wolf biting his way through his Red Riding Hood dinner and stalked by his supernatural comeuppance.
It’s an interesting mix that emphasizes the horror comedy core of the book. The Wolf isn’t just an animal, but a homicidal, sociopathic killing machine. And a hungry one at that. His is the narrative we follow and includes such rhymes as “His sharp teeth could cut with amazing precision. He could even eat YOU, if that was his decision.” The climax evocative of EC Comics of old and the previously stated ‘Third Pig’ tale as the Wolf gets his just desserts, with the book standing out on its own.
Little Dead Riding Hood is an entertaining read with fantastical illustrations and well worth checking out if you fancy your fairy tales with a heaping dose of ultra violence and bloody hilarious rhymes. The book is available on Bill Kopp’s website along with information on convention appearances (Including this weekend’s upcoming Long Beach Comic-Con) and additional info.
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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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