The SD Action and Horror Movie Fans/Filmmakers Meetup Group

To start the Halloween month off with bite, Mike P. Nelson (Silent Night, Deadly Night) brings back the ‘Giant Man-eating Snake’ vibe of the 90’s with BEWARE BOIÚNA starring Logan Marshall-Green (Upgrade), Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day), Kiana Madeira (Fear Street series), Jackson Bews (Malficent), Sergio Herrera (The Last Photograph), Vicente Peña (El Comondante) and Will Close (Silent Witness).
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TRIVIA

• Director Mike P. Nelson used a number of practical techniques for the snake, such as dragging a massive piece of HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) through the jungle to simulate weighted movement and using giant printouts of the snake's head for eye line.
• Actors Jessica Rothe and Kiana Madeira had to react to a terrifying giant predator that was largely added in post-production, forcing them to rely heavily on imagination while filming in the Colombian Amazon rainforest.
• The lead trio—Jessica Rothe, Kiana Madeira, and Logan Marshall-Green—brings extensive horror and sci-fi survival experience from projects like Happy Death Day, Upgrade, and Prometheus.

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PLOT: A team of doctors embark on a local mission in the Amazon rain forest, but it soon becomes clear that not everybody - or everything - is happy to see them. Their sudden appearance draws the attention of an animal predator, the "Boiúna." - IMDb

Banned for 55 years, the uncut NC-17 version of “The Chancellor of Controversy”, Ken Russell’s (Crimes of Passion), most notorious film has never been seen in the United States until now in a newly restored 4K restoration of THE DEVILS.
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Starring Oliver Reed (Revolver), Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement), Dudley Sutton (Lovejoy – TV series), Max Adrian (The Boy Friend), Gemma Jones (Sense and Sensibility), Murray Melvin (The Phantom of the Opera) and Michael Gothard
(Lifeforce).
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TRIVIA

• Warner Bros. refused for over 50 years to issue an official uncut home-video or streaming release of Russell's complete director's cut, turning the original version into a legendary lost artifact of cinema until recent festival restorations. The 2026 4K re-release is the first ever release from Warner Brothers to get an NC-17 rating.
• Derek Jarman's sets are modeled on the sets of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927). Ken Russell wanted to avoid the clichéd look of period films and insisted on anachronistic, even futuristic, design. Russell's guidance to Jarman was that it should echo the 'rape in a public toilet' line from the Huxley novel that inspired the film.
• Dame Vanessa Redgrave wrote in her autobiography that she considers this film, along with The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), to be the finest example of British post-war cinema and one of the best movies she'd been in.
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PLOT: In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft. - IMDb

James Watkins (Eden Lake) creates a complex tale of revenge and body horror with CLAYFACE starring Tom Rhys Harries (The Gentlemen), Eddie Marsan (All the Devil Are Here), Max Minghella (Spiral), Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice), Nancy Carroll (Father Brown: TV Series) and David Dencik (No Time to Die).
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TRIVIA:

• Mike Flanagan said the film takes inspiration from Batman: The Animated Series (1992) episodes Feat of Clay: Part I (1992) and Feat of Clay: Part II (1992) which also told the origin of Matt Hagen's Clayface.
• Producer James Gunn describe this movie as a comic book film version of The Substance (2024).
• The filmmakers were inspired by The Fly (1986) and the animation style of Will Vinton to make this movie.

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PLOT: Rising Hollywood star Matt Hagen descends into a horrifying revenge-filled monster when scientific ambition strips him of his identity and humanity. - IMDb