


This article was originally published on March 30, 2018.The year is 2015, it’s summertime, I’m talking to McIntyre, who still lives in NYC, an established photographer in various fields that expand beyond portraits of musicians, his accent is still apparent, and he’s reminiscing about the summer in 94’ when he went to Brooklyn for the first time.

You can rent Holidays over on Amazon this Easter Sunday! But what if you actually did wake up? What if you did see the Easter Bunny? And what if he wasn’t what your parents told you he was? That’s the core idea behind McCarthy’s Easter, which plays out a bit like a demented and nightmarish Easter version of The Santa Clause.įun Fact: the short’s “Bunny Man,” looking more like a Cenobite than the Easter Bunny, was played by Mark Steger, who went on to play the Demogorgon in “Stranger Things”! The idea of some sort of otherworldly rabbit breaking into your house at night while everyone’s asleep is inherently creepy no matter how you slice it, and being told that we were never to wake up and actually see what it looks like only added to that creepiness. Fuel.Īs a kid, there was always something just a little bit creepy about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, even if the magic and excitement usually drowned out the fear.

McCarthy blends the two Easter tales together for a standout short film that is surprisingly (given its brief run-time) rich with mythology, and it’s also home to the most nightmarish depiction of a beloved holiday icon that you’ll likely ever see.Īn overused term, but it’s truly Pure. Patrick’s Day) to absolutely bone-chilling (“Father’s Day”), but “Easter” is easily the most memorable.ĭirected by Nicholas McCarthy ( At the Devil’s Door), the “Easter” segment is a truly unsettling examination of the titular holiday, centered on a young girl who can’t wrap her head around the idea that the day marks both the rebirth of Jesus Christ and the arrival of a giant bunny. The fun thing about the anthology is that the segments are shown in the order in which those holidays take place it begins with a Valentine’s Day segment and ends with one set on New Year’s Eve, hitting every major holiday (aside from Thanksgiving) in-between. And he hops…“īack in 2016, the horror anthology Holidays was released, made up of eight different holiday-themed segments. The best attempt we’ve seen to date? That’d be a 10-minute short film, actually. Mind you, a handful of independent horror movies over the years have attempted to fill that void, including Peter Rottentail, Easter Bunny Bloodbath, Beaster Day and Easter Bunny Massacre, but the holiday is still without its own Halloween or Black Christmas, so to speak. Almost 40 years later, we’re still without a truly great Easter horror movie.
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When Silent Night, Deadly Night was released in 1984, Leonard Maltin infamously wrote a scathing review of the Christmas slasher, pondering if the next step on the horror genre’s path to perverting all things wonderful and joyous was a horror movie about a demented Easter bunny. So check out our favorite pieces below, and if you come across any cool art that we missed, be sure to reach out and let us know! Looking for the most awesome Stranger Things fan art? We’ve put together a nice little gallery so you don’t have to go hunting. Stranger Things, needless to say, kind of has the best fanbase ever. The characters, particularly the Goonies-esque kids, are some of the most likable and instantly iconic to come along in many years, and it seems there are few artists out there who love the show and haven’t already felt compelled to draw Eleven and the gang up in their own unique style. We’ve finally hit peak ’80s nostalgia, and nothing to date has done it better.Ī testament to how beloved Stranger Things has quickly become, there is already a plethora of fan art being shared across the web, so much of it that someone who didn’t know any better would probably assume the show actually was made, as it very much feels like it was, in the 1980s.
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While it normally takes a new movie or TV series a good deal of time to build up a massive audience, the Duffer Brothers-created show found the one it was aiming for almost immediately, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s almost hard to believe that it’s been only two weeks since Netflix put the first season of Stranger Things up for instant viewing, because it already feels like one of the most beloved pieces of entertainment to ever grace the screen.
