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More Concept Art for ‘The Predator’ Shows Off More Hybrid Creatures That Didn’t Make the Cut

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Just yesterday, we shared with you a gallery of Constatine Sekeris’s early concept art for The Predator, which highlighted monkey-like Predator hybrids that were ultimately cut from the film before shooting even began. The idea, at one point, was for the film to showcase a “menagerie” of hybrid creatures, none of which actually made it into the movie.

Today, AvP Galaxy shows off more art that has surfaced this week, this batch of images coming from artist Ben Mauro. Mauro details, “Some Predator exploration back in 2016, always fun to explore different ideas early on in a project. These were an evolution of some early ideas Constantine Sekeris explored on the project that I was asked to take a crack at.”

Mauro’s art shows off an almost aquatic-looking Predator, which has spikes all over its back and tail as well as, most notably, FOUR arms. Sekeris’s concept art similarly featured a four-armed creature, so it’s pretty clear than Shane Black was initially keen on bringing to the screen monsters with multiple limbs. An interesting concept, to say the very least.

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Is the ‘Frogman’ Real? Find Out Right Now on SCREAMBOX! [Trailer]

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The legend of the Frogman comes to the screen in the new found footage movie Frogman, which joined the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX streaming service today!

In Frogman, “In the summer of 1999, a 12-year-old named Dallas Kyle captured footage of the mythical Frogman, but no one believed it was real. Twenty years later, Dallas, now an amateur filmmaker struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns to Loveland with friends Amy and Scotty determined to obtain irrefutable proof that the Frogman exists.

“But what starts as an innocent documentary soon turns into a Lovecraftian nightmare as Dallas uncovers the horrific secrets hidden beneath Loveland’s idyllic surface.”

Nathan Tymoshuk, Chelsey Grant, Benny Barrett and Justen Jones star.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her mini-review out of Popcorn Frights 2023, “Director Anthony Cousins takes on the cryptic Frogman via found footage in his feature directorial debut, co-written with John Karsko. In it, a trio of friends embarks on one final filmmaking hoorah before life takes them in separate directions. But in their bid to make one last attempt to capture the elusive cryptid Frogman on camera, they find far more than they ever bargained for.”

Frogman adheres to the standard found footage blueprint and tropes, drawing heavily from The Blair Witch Project and Willow Creek as the trio starts by interviewing Loveland, Ohio, locals about their town’s cryptid mascot,” Meagan’s review continues. “Friction between the friends gets brought to the surface as they get closer to the truth. While Cousins’ debut doesn’t offer any narrative surprises and makes strange style choices for the camera, it makes up for it with impressive creature effects. The more the humans invade the Frogman’s turf, the more delightfully weird and gnarly things get. It’s an SFX showcase with delightfully deranged mythology that makes this one worth the price of admission.”

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