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In 1995, Disney World unveiled a new theme park called
“ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter” in the Magic Kingdom’s Tomorrowland. While the ride is mostly forgotten, the fake documentary that Disney produced to advertise for it has lived on in infamy.

ExtraTERRORestrial was a retooling of Mission to Mars, and it was Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s attempt at capturing the teenage market with an edgy, scary ride. At one point Eisner even attempted to partner with Ridley Scott to feature xenomorphs from the “Alien” series.

Instead, they created a new animatronic alien creature and had it teleport into the theater where it terrorized the audience. You can watch this Defunctland video to learn more about “ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter,” which closed in 2003.

What makes ExtraTERRORestrial memorable wasn’t the ride itself, but the advertising. Disney produced “Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland,” a 45-minute “documentary” about UFOs and alleged alien encounters, and aired it during its prime time “Magical World of Disney” program.

The documentary, hosted by TV’s Robert Urich, presents itself as a real documentary based on hard science, and talked about aliens and UFOs as if they were 100 percent real. This was a prime time family program, and it was telling children that aliens were real, and they were coming. Not only that, but it even included disturbing tales from alleged abductions.

When Urich finally mentioned the theme park ride he was promoting, he claimed that Disney had partnered with scientists to create
“ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter” to help prepare little boys and girls for their inevitable visit from an advanced lifeform from outer space. What a great program for family fun night!

Suffice to say, “Alien Encounters” traumatized kids and their parents called Disney to complain. After that, Disney stopped showing it, and it was never transferred to home video so most people forgot about it. Now, thanks to some YouTube users, you can view the full program here:

The bizarre documentary has lived on in various circles, though. According to Mysterious Universe, UFO conspiracy theorists consider it an attempt at a “soft disclosure,” testing the public reaction to a real-life report on alien contact.

Whatever it was meant to be, “Alien Encounters” was a weird little footnote in Disney’s history.

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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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.

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“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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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