We lost a true giant recently when professional wrestler
turned action badass “Rowdy” Roddy Piper passed away. I didn’t even write about
it because I couldn’t figure out how to quantify the impact movies like
They Live and Hell Comes to Frogtown, not
to mention his career in the squared circle, had on me in words. Fortunately
for fans everywhere, he has one last film on the way, and it’s a doozy: be
battles the ancient evil that is Cthulhu. And now the first trailer for horror
short Portal to Hell!!! has arrived to make you both ecstatically
happy and brutally sad at the same time.
I’ve been keeping tabs on this since it first began life as
the best idea I’ve ever heard. Selected to premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival this year (yet another reason I’m bummed to be
missing out on this fest) will, unfortunately, this will go down as his final
performance. The initial crowdfunding campaign was so successful that director Vivieno
Caldinelli (Picnicface) and special effects guru Steve
Kostanski (Manborg) had planned to turn this into a full feature, but that
doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen anymore.
Here’s the synopsis:
The apartment-superintendent hero of this primo slice of Canuxploitation has enough on his plate, what with all the plumbing and electrical problems and high-maintenance tenants. But then some jerks open up a multidimensional gateway in the basement. Thankfully, the guy standing between humanity and its certain destruction is played by the late, great "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.
Portal to Hell!!! makes its debut next
month and hopefully will make the rounds for the rest of us to see shortly
after. Take a look at the short teaser trailer below, it’s as awesome as you
hoped.
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