A clip and music video have been unveiled to advertise this weekend’s launch of the horror movie Popeye the Slayer Man
It’s stylish as of late to take a personality from widespread kids’s tales and given them a horror twist. These days we’ve been listening to about horror motion pictures primarily based on the likes of Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Sleeping Magnificence, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Bambi, Pinocchio, Three Blind Mice, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears… and like I stated the final time I wrote about this, when one set of filmmakers decides to make a horror movie that includes a beloved youngsters’ story character, there are typically a number of different units of filmmakers engaged on horror movies that heart on the identical character. We’ve seen this occur with Mickey Mouse, and now the character who’ll quickly be seen in a couple of horror film is Popeye the Sailor Man. Final November, it was introduced that Alpeke Entertainment is engaged on a slasher horror comedy known as Shiver Me Timbers, which places a horror twist on Popeye. Then, ITN Studios introduced us Popeye’s Revenge, which was given a VOD launch final month. It was lately revealed that director Robert Michael Ryan’s Popeye the Slayer Man is ready to obtain a theatrical and VOD launch, courtesy of Vantage Media, on March 21st – and in anticipation of that launch date, a clip from the movie has made its method on-line. You possibly can test it out within the embed above. The music “Sailor to Slayer” by The Man from Alphabet has additionally gotten a music video, which may be seen on the backside of this text.
Scripted by John Doolan, Popeye the Slayer Man considerations a gaggle of associates who sneak into an deserted spinach canning manufacturing facility to movie a documentary on the legend of the “Sailor Man,” who is claimed to hang-out the manufacturing facility and native docks. Ryan contributed to the story with producers Jeff Miller and Cuyle Carvin.
Ryan supplied the next assertion: “We went old-school with this film, utilizing sensible results for the horror. I wished this movie to have a extra visceral really feel paying homage to the basic horror movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s.” Miller added, “We hope audiences will have as much fun with this movie as we had making it. Grab a can of spinach, sit back, and enjoy!” And VMI Worldwide COO and Head of Acquisitions Jessica Russo, who negotiated the distribution deal, had this to say: “Popeye the Slayer Man’s darkish reimagining of the basic Popeye character delivers a contemporary tackle a beloved icon that audiences will die for.“
The movie stars Sean Michael Conway, Elena Juliano, Mabel Thomas, Marie-Louise Boisnier, Jeff Thomas, and Steven McCormack, together with scream queens Angela Relucio and Sarah Nicklin. Jason Stephens performs the title position.
Ryan, Miller, and Carvin produced Popeye the Slayer Man with Alexander Tucker, Nathan Todaro, and Alysa Blasetti. This can be a co-production between Salem Home Movies, Millman Productions, Ron Lee Productions, and Otsego Media.
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