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Hulu’s ‘All That We Destroy’ is a Sinister Take on the Depths of a Mother’s Love
All That We Destroy, the latest feature-length episode in the Blumhouse-Hulu venture Into the Dark, takes the notion of a mother’s powerful and unconditional love and turns it on its head with chilling and twisted results.
Set in an unnamed future, the film tells the story of Dr. Victoria Harris (Samantha Mathis), a brilliant geneticist with a specialization in cloning whose company has patented a process for cloning organs for human transplant. She lives in an idyllic desert home with her son Spencer (Israel Broussard).
Spencer is a socially awkward yet talented artist. He also happens to be a cold-blooded killer, and we learn in the first five minutes of the episode that Victoria has begun cloning his first murder victim (Aurora Perrineau) again and again in an attempt to assuage his need to kill.
Written by writing duo Sean Keller and Jim Agnew, All That We Destroy marks the feature directorial debut of Chelsea Stardust. For her part, the director proves that she has what it takes to bring out great performances from her cast and is adept at slowly building tension in a subtly organic way from a mixture of action and character.
It doesn’t hurt that her cast is equally brilliant.
At its core, the film is about the duality in all of us, and the film’s leads underline this beautifully.
Broussard’s Spencer is completely believable as a socially inept, shy young man who creates beautiful art. He chafes against his mother’s constant monitoring, but no more than any other young man would. All of this makes his sudden killing rages seem even more intense.
The actor, who previously starred in Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U, proves that he has what it takes to be a start.
Mathis is equally believable as the dedicated scientist and the desperate mother. As she begins to modify her experiments in the cloning process, and further, actually begins grooming the human clones to be more “real” in order to satiate her son’s need for violence, she becomes just as sinister as Spencer.
And then there’s Perrineau who gives a remarkable performance as Ashley, Spencer’s repeated victim. In her life before, she was a bit of a wild child with a criminal record, but there is a palpable vulnerability in each of her iterations as a clone.
Slowly, this duality seeps into the viewer, as well. We are frustrated by these people, afraid of their capabilities, and yet there is a genuine sympathetic response.
We know that what this mother and son are doing is wrong…but how wrong is it if he’s essentially killing the same person over and over again?
The fact that we ask ourselves the question while watching proves just how well Stardust and her cast and crew performed their jobs.
All That We Destroy is available to stream on Hulu. Check out the trailer below!
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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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