She’s going to paint the town red tonight.
Horror fans will recognize this expression as something that has little to do with having a fun evening and more to do with blood and gore.
And they will be right.
After most of the fairytales we read as kids was given the twisted treatment, it is now Cinderella’s turn.
Cinderella’s story was more about not giving up hope and believing in your dreams, and knowing that there is a happy ending for you. But that was just the Disney version.
In the actual story, Cinderella does go to the ball and loses her shoe, and the prince does go around the whole kingdom looking for her, but then things take a bit of a twist.
The evil step-sisters want the prince to pick them and they are desperate enough to saw off their toes so that their feet can stick into the shoes. But the blood is a dead giveaway and the prince soon enough realizes that Cinderella is the one for him.
The step-sisters decide to flatter Cinderella and are invited to the wedding but then their eyes are pecked out by birds.
And so, taking inspiration from the story written by Brothers Grimm, there is a new Cinderella story coming our way but this time it is for all the Horror fans out there.
If you enjoyed Carrie, you may just find some similarities in the recently dropped trailer for the film.
Titled CINDERELLA’S CURSE, the movie shows a young woman called Cinderella being harassed by her sisters.
She thinks that by going to the ball and meeting the Prince, that she will have her happily ever after, but unfortunately, in this version, the Prince is not so nice.
Cinderella is humiliated at the ball, laughed at and pushed around until she finally snaps. The scene is intercut with a blood-stained being that grants Cinderella three wishes. So yes, there’s a bit of Aladdin in there too.
Cinderella’s first wish? She wants revenge.
And so in true Carrie-style, she exacts revenge on everyone who humiliated her at the ball. Even the Prince is seen running for his life. And then we get to see Cinderella cutting off her stepsister’s toes so that the glass shoe can fit. As gruesome as the scene is, it is also staying true to the real story of Cinderella.
Of course, there is a carriage that explodes and Cinderalla walking around stealthily using her glass slipper as a weapon, but the trailer shows just how entertaining this horror movie is going to be.
Directed by Louisa Warren, and written by Harry Boxley and Charles Perrault, the movie stars Kelly Rian Sanson, Sam Barrett, and Lauren Budd.
CINDERELLA’S CURSE has a tentative release date of April 4th.
We are here for a reason and sometimes that reason could be being troubled by something creepy. Or that is what it seems like in the trailer for IMMACULATE.
In the past, there have been plenty of movies that show themes of immaculate conception or nuns harboring dark secrets. Combine these two elements and you have the movie Immaculate.
In the trailer we see a nun making a confession and stating that she has been saved by the Lord but she can’t seem to find the reason why she was. When she doesn’t receive a reply from the other side, she finds that she is being pushed into a distance and someone comes up from behind her and grabs her.
No doubt that is going to be one of the typical jump scare, dream sequence.
We then see the nun joining a convent along with other young women only to one day, throw up. As she is mocked, she is also taken to the clinic where she is told that she is pregnant.
But she’s a nun!
Suddenly the nun becomes the center of attention but for all the wrong reasons. Everyone is wondering whether she is really the chosen one for immaculate conception or is she birthing a demon?
The nun sees some nuns wearing red masks and one of them even jumps through a window. The nun is clearly being targeted and goes through incidents where she is being hurt or drowned.
At one point we even see her bloodied face as she wails.
The movie does not really show a trailer that has anything new to offer.
There appear to be plenty of jump scares and the only selling point seems to be the lead Sydney Sweeney who is also producing this movie.
But trailers can be deceiving and NEON is already backing one of the most creatively marketed movie LONGLEGS so they can’t really go wrong with Immaculate, can they?
The movie is directed by Michael Mohan and written by Andrew Lobel. Along with Sydney Sweeney, the movie also stars Álvaro Morte, and Simona Tabasco.
IMMACULATE will release on March 22nd.
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