{"id":207675,"date":"2025-10-18T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207675\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:23:11","slug":"monster-medicine-first-look-introduces-patient-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207675\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Monster Medicine&#8217; First Look Introduces Patient From Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only the special team known as the \u201cMonster Medicine\u201d can help a woman with a strange affliction in the new horror short premiering this weekend, and Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive first look.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Veronica Felicity Johnson\u2018s \u201cMonster Medicine\u201d introduces a patient from Hell, and you can get a first peek at the practical creature effects in this medical nightmare scenario below.<\/p>\n<p>In the short film,\u00a0\u201cAn emergency doctor on a heavenly mission works to save a dying patient from hell in an East L.A. Urgent Care, transforming each of them forever in the most unexpected ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet Johnson\u2019s aim isn\u2019t to scare, necessarily. The director told <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.straight.com\/movies\/local-and-international-filmmakers-showcase-new-horror-films-at-vancouver-horror-show-film#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Georgia Straight<\/a>, \u201cThe audience is going to be really moved by it in a strange way because it\u2019s an interesting, fun, and unique movie, as we have monsters as doctors. The audience is really going to see monsters as sentient creatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andi Norris, Brittany Belt, Eric Toms, Kamy Bruder, and creature performer Kevin Keppy (Smile, \u201cGuillermo del Toro\u2019s Cabinet of Curiosities\u201d) star.\u00a0 Special effects character creator Lisette Santana (\u201cFallout\u201d, Satanic Hispanics) provides the practical effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonster Medicine\u201d premieres tomorrow at the <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/vhs2025.eventive.org\/films\/68c25a31a3de3582f5700b87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vancouver Horror Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3909754\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/exclusives\/3909748\/monster-medicine-exclusive-first-look-introduces-emergency-room-patient-from-hell\/attachment\/mm_stills_1-263-1\/\" 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