According to a new report from Hollywood Reporter, Disney has been announced some pretty notable changes to its upcoming theatrical slate. The most important of which to members of the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy is that the previously straight-to-streaming Alien: Romulus is now heading into cinemas August 16th 2024!
20th Century has added another installment in the Alien franchise, dated for Aug. 16, 2024. Filmmaker Fede Alvarez is behind the feature, which stars Cailee Spaeny. The studio has also added the Rami Malek thriller The Amateur to Nov. 8, 2024.
Alien: Romulus was initially announced as a straight-to-Hulu release back in March 2023, but Fede Alvarez’s upcoming Alien film had been rumoured to be changing its release destination, which is now confirmed.
While official news on the film has been quiet, according to Production Weekly filming on Alien: Romulus should have been wrapping up in May but a recent Instagram post from actor Archie Renaux showed several of the actors still together last week.
Following the recent success of Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey, many fans had been calling for that film – and Alien: Romulus – to get a theatrical release. How do you feel about the change? Sound off in the comments below! Thanks to Gimitko for the heads up!
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The use of gore and the use of imagination in storytelling are not mutually exclusive because they can often serve complementary roles. Let's explore how:
Artistic Medium: In both literature and film, gore is an artistic tool, much like any other form of imagery. It's not the gore itself that matters, but the way it is portrayed, interpreted, and integrated into the story. When well executed, it can stimulate imagination by triggering strong emotions, promoting visual or mental imagery, and enhancing narrative tension or thematic depth.
Psychological Impact: The use of gore can spark imagination by inducing psychological reactions. It can lead to a heightened state of alertness, curiosity, or fear, which might prompt audiences to predict future events, empathize with characters, or reflect on underlying themes. This process inherently involves the imagination.
Symbolism and Metaphor: Gore can be used symbolically or metaphorically, encouraging audiences to think beyond the literal and consider deeper meanings or themes. This interpretative process is a fundamental aspect of imagination.
World-Building and Character Development: Gore can contribute to world-building and character development. It can hint at the harshness of a world or the resilience of a character, encouraging audiences to imagine the broader context or backstory.
Sensory Engagement: Gore, especially in visual media, engages multiple senses (vision, sound, etc.), stimulating the audience's sensory imagination. In written media, detailed descriptions can achieve a similar effect.
Therefore, gore can be a means of engaging and activating the audience's imagination, rather than detracting from it. However, it's crucial to use it judiciously and purposefully, in line with the story's tone, theme, and intended audience, to avoid gratuitous or senseless violence.
Here's an example: As he proceeded closer to the scene, the earth squelched beneath. Warm, viscous crimson liquid swelled and effervesced up between his toes like water being squeezed from a soiled sink sponge. His gaze was drawn to the dripping yellow treacle draining against the wall, tracing its trail to the runny-yolk eyes of a deformed body plastered on the ceiling. It was no ordinary body. An inconceivable union of flesh and steel. "What...happened here?"
(cue imagination)
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Anyway I'll be away for a while, lots of stuff happening, I'll return when I can when some particular book(s) arrive.
Peace.
¿Porqué no los dos?
You can see flashes of gore, or flashes of something gorey that imply something even worse and more graphic. You don't have to linger on it like gorno films do.
Yup truly f**ked up, that's the kind of messed up, sick "gore" I want to see; disgusting hive body horror leaving your imagination to go to dark places to infer what happened.
Bauman, the shorter guy with the beard from RLM that always seems upbeat has a penchant for obscure indie movies and very depressing horror movies, including graphic ones. Mike Stoklassa, the taller guy from RLM who always sounds drunk likes Friday the 13th, but is more of an upbeat person, movie-taste-wise; he'd opt for more of a splatter comedy than something that Jay Bauman would pick, although they'd both probably enjoy it in the end.
For me, the most horrible part was what we didn't see: all the kids who got cocooned and suffered a horrible death by chestburster. Bonus points if their parents had to watch.
Yep agreed, the original made me lose my appetite as a wee lad, and the cocooned woman burster in Aliens was genuinely horrifying. Horner's score really amps up the intensity there too.
Elaborate on that.
David Lynch: No.
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Could you elaborate on that ?
The adult killing people is kind of dull and perfunctory after a while. Bursting's the real horror show.
I think we need to delineate between gore as an aspect of body horror, and on-screen violence leading directly to gore. Seeing the result is different to seeing it happen, and there's a big difference between something like that taking inspiration from say, The Thing or a certain Swiss surrealist, and just having limbs chopped off all over the place.
So as far as evil dead goes, the original is absolutely the movie to go too imo, this remake takes all the fun out of it.
I'm looking forward to a simple, unpretentious scary movie. I think Fede can deliver.
Nobody's saying Evil Dead (2013) is a classic, just that it's competent and more fun than it has any right to be.
Nobody's talking about Don't Breathe at all, and rightly so imo.
You can't forget about the white christmas-lights, commodore 64 computer annex with a rotating chair.
We will see.
Noisemakers or bust
Just 2-3 winks to the visual style like the one flying weapon shot etc.
Does it ape Sam Raimi's style? If so, hard pass.
Same. I only finally watched it earlier this year and ended up having a blast.
https://pics.filmaffinity.com/evil_dead-699325579-large.jpg
I just recently rewatched Fede's Evil Dead before Evil Dead Rise came out, but I'll definitely be giving it another go before Romulus is in theaters.
I have never seen that movie.
Lol, I have to see this movie now.
Sorry, to clarify, Texas Chainsaw 2 is a splatter-comedy. The new one is not funny or supposed to be.
Fede's Evil Dead does have some slapstick as NA has said. Keep in mind the original Evil Dead stuff wasn't really funny til Evil Dead 2 anyway.
Interesting! I've heard that his version of Evil-Dead tones down the comedy quite a bit. I'm assuming at least some of the comedy then in TCM was unintentional?
Now, I think there's a point to be made that Evil Dead is a much better film (this is a good thing for us btw), but out of the TCM movies I'd put the one he had a lot to do with as second equal with TCM 2 (which is only there because it's so f**king ridiculous and funny), after the original.
I didn't watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 and from the looks of it, that movie seems to be really despised everywhere.
But at the end of the day, Fede wrote and directed Evil Dead and Don't Breathe, while his contributions to TCM were simply as a writer and a producer.
I think fede put more effort into the movies that he personally directed, instead of the ones where he produced and wrote.
Directing is like raising a child, your baby, while producing is more like babysitting some random kid hahahah.
That is how i see it.