Horror Weekly News: Bad CGI Gator promises real fear. Updates on Mike Flanagan's Life of Chuck.

 

The use of CGI has become a norm in movies nowadays. Why bother seeking out permissions to shoot on actual locations when you can create your own world using green screens and CGI?

Horror movies, especially, have extensively used CGI to create terrifying monsters and creepy sets. However, because CGI is hard to perfect, filmmakers try to get away with it by dimming the lights. Which means that the audience barely gets to see what is going on but thanks to the audio, can at least hear. 

Enter these fearless filmmakers who are now embracing their lack of expertise at CGI. In fact, they are owning up to it with the tagline that the rendering of the monster is indeed cheap. But the fear is real. 

Is it though?

In the newly released trailer of BAD CGI GATOR, the movie pokes fun at pretty much every horror trope. 

In the trailer, we see a fisherman carelessly tossing away a warning sign regarding alligators. He decides that he can fish wherever he wants.

Cut to a group of college kids in a car, screaming it is spring break! They already look the kind of kids you would avoid at any cost. 

As luck would have it, they are unaware of the threats that the place hold. It all starts when one of them throws a laptop into the lake in an act of defiance. An alligator is shown to be electrocuted (because of the laptop and the software on it?) and the next thing he wants is revenge. 

The alligator crawls out at night and goes after the kids. The alligator is a really, really bad CGI design. As if that wasn’t enough, the alligator also floats about and has the ability to increase its height. 

Can the kids survive this cheaply rendered alligator? Because the audience is being promised scares. 

Directed by Danny Draven, and written by Zalman Band, the movie stars Sarah Buchanan, Rebecca Stoughton, and Michael Bonini. 

BAD CGI GATOR releases on November 24th.

 

 In other news…

After the success of The Fall of the House of Usher, Mike Flanagan is currently working on another project. After Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, Flanagan will work on an adaptation of yet another story written by Stephen King. 

This time, the new movie will be based on The Life of Chuck, a short story that featured in the anthology IF IT BLEEDS. 

The Life of Chuck is written in reverse with the first act being about Chuck dying and the ending being about Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz growing up in a haunted house. 

The cast already includes several regulars from Mike Flanagan’s show along with Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill. 

Recently, actors Matthew Lillard, Harvey Guillen, and Karen Gillan were also added to the cast. 

This ambitious project has no release date set yet but it is expected to release sometime next year.