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Kurt Sutter Makes His Feature Directorial With ‘This Beast’ Inspired By A True Story

“Sons of Anarchy” writer-director Kurt Sutter is making his feature film directorial debut with This Beast, inspired by The Beast of Gévaudan, the true story about a mysterious beast that terrorized a French village in the 1760s. The Netflix film is set in “an 18th century English village is besieged by a mysterious and elusive beast. Dozens of innocents are slaughtered and the mayhem is driven to puritanical heights by religious fanaticism. The impossible task of killing the beast falls to a lowly trapper who promises he can stop the carnage. But for him this hunt is not a professional mission, it’s a deeply personal one.” Sutter, whose series “Sons of Anarchy” was a major hit filled with drama, excitement, violence, and love, will write, direct and produce This Beast. Jason Blum and Blumhouse will produce along with Carla Hacken under her Paper Pictures banner. Blumhouse Television’s Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold will executive produce. Bringing my disturbing, familial story

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 9, 2021
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Morbid Beauty: Tipu’s Tiger

In the 18th century, England set its sights on colonizing India. India was prosperous in its own ways and would enter the modern age on its own time but England viewed it differently that they were backwater savages that needed to be forced into the present and to grovel thankfully for it. Obviously, this did not sit well with many of the country’s inhabitants leading to deep seeded resentment at the time (and still felt today somewhat). Nothing illustrates this more than the hand-cranked automaton known as Tipu’s Tiger. The machine depicts a tiger on top of a British soldier biting his neck as the soldier lies with a look of horror on his face. That’s not the end of it, the soldier moves; well his arm does in a flailing motion making the hand uncover the mouth where a metal pipe is and allows air to come out making a dull wailing sound as if the man is screaming.

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Capt McNeely
Feb 23, 2018

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Kurt Sutter Makes His Feature Directorial With ‘This Beast’ Inspired By A True Story

“Sons of Anarchy” writer-director Kurt Sutter is making his feature film directorial debut with This Beast, inspired by The Beast of Gévaudan, the true story about a mysterious beast that terrorized a French village in the 1760s. The Netflix film is set in “an 18th century English village is besieged by a mysterious and elusive beast. Dozens of innocents are slaughtered and the mayhem is driven to puritanical heights by religious fanaticism. The impossible task of killing the beast falls to a lowly trapper who promises he can stop the carnage. But for him this hunt is not a professional mission, it’s a deeply personal one.” Sutter, whose series “Sons of Anarchy” was a major hit filled with drama, excitement, violence, and love, will write, direct and produce This Beast. Jason Blum and Blumhouse will produce along with Carla Hacken under her Paper Pictures banner. Blumhouse Television’s Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold will executive produce. Bringing my disturbing, familial story

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Mar 9, 2021
Horror Fuel

Morbid Beauty: Tipu’s Tiger

In the 18th century, England set its sights on colonizing India. India was prosperous in its own ways and would enter the modern age on its own time but England viewed it differently that they were backwater savages that needed to be forced into the present and to grovel thankfully for it. Obviously, this did not sit well with many of the country’s inhabitants leading to deep seeded resentment at the time (and still felt today somewhat). Nothing illustrates this more than the hand-cranked automaton known as Tipu’s Tiger. The machine depicts a tiger on top of a British soldier biting his neck as the soldier lies with a look of horror on his face. That’s not the end of it, the soldier moves; well his arm does in a flailing motion making the hand uncover the mouth where a metal pipe is and allows air to come out making a dull wailing sound as if the man is screaming.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Feb 23, 2018