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.
We’ve been stupidly excited for Vivieno Cladinelli and Matt
Watts’ Portal to Hell since the very first second we heard
about it. Come on, how can you not be stoked-beyond-words for “Rowdy” Roddy
Piper battling Cthulhu? Even better was when it was announced that it will be a
feature-length film (it was originally envisioned as a short), and the fact
that production is underway has us dancing around with glee. And just to prove
that this is really happening, Twitch has a handful of stills from the set.
This is the best news we’ve heard all day. You knew that
this was too good to just be a short. A little while back we told you about a
crew trying to crowdsource enough cash to make a short film, Portal toHell, about a plumber, played by legendary wrestler and They
Live star “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, who battles H.P. Lovecrafts’ most
horrific creation, Cthulhu. As awesome as that sounds, it’s still only a short.
Or at least it was. The Canadian film just got a massive upgrade as Raven
Banner Entertainment stepped in and said, “No, guys, this is too brilliant a
concept not to be a feature,” and Portal to
Hell is going to be a full length motion picture.
This needs to happen, like right now. Wrestling legend
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper has battled aliens in John Carpenter’s classic The
Live and tackled giant mutant amphibians in Hell Comes to
Frogtown. (Why hasn’t he been in an Expendables
movie yet? You’re slipping, Stallone.) Now he’s getting set to take on the
Great Old One himself. Yeah, Roddy Piper is going to tangle tentacles with
Cthulhu in the short film Portal to Hell, but he needs your
help first.
