{"id":60350,"date":"2025-08-12T00:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60350\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:13:05","slug":"jack-o-is-back-o-fred-olen-ray-sybil-danning-are-making-a-sequel-to-the-90s-cult-classic-slasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60350\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Jack-O&#8217; Is Back-O &#8211; Fred Olen Ray &#038; Sybil Danning Are Making a Sequel to the &#8217;90s Cult Classic Slasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995, filmmaker Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Evil Toons) executive produced the direct-to-video Halloween slasher Jack-O \u2014 which he famously referring to as a \u201cshit pickle\u201d on the audio commentary.<\/p>\n<p>30 years later, the B-movie stalwart is writing and directing Jack-O 2: Blood Moon Rising. Inspired by 1970s drive-in movies, the sequel aims to highlight a monstrous creature, dark swamps, and fair maidens in peril.<\/p>\n<p>Ray will produce alongside Sean Donohue, with original Jack-O director Steve Latshaw and exploitation maven William Gref\u00e9 (Mako: The Jaws of Death) executive producing.<\/p>\n<p>Genre regulars Sybil Danning (Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf), Richard Gabai (Demon Wind), Sushii Xhyvette Holder (Naked Cannibal Campers), and Martin Nicholas (The Alien Dead) are attached to star.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/jack-o-2-make-a-movie-with-fred-olen-ray\/x\/549853#\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiegogo campaign<\/a> has launched to crowdfund $50,000 toward the sequel, which Ray says will \u201chelp offset my personal cash investment for the bulk of the financing and allow me to import a name star.\u201d Perks range from signed Blu-rays to producer credits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy passion springs from the heyday of the 1970s drive-in movie theater where I thrilled to great homegrown exploitation movies like Slithis, Death Curse of Tartu and Gator Bait,\u201d notes Ray. \u201cWhen I began my career, it was in movies like Shock Waves and my swamp epic The Alien Dead starring serial legend Buster Crabbe. I have long awaited a return to the genre I love so much and now Jack-O 2 is my chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jack-O 2: Blood Moon Rising is aiming to film in Florida later this year for a 2026 release.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1995, filmmaker Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Evil Toons) executive produced the direct-to-video Halloween slasher Jack-O&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,32583,32584,32585,32586,2839,32587,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-60350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-fred-olen-ray","tag-jack-o","tag-jack-o-2","tag-jack-o-2-blood-moon-rising","tag-movies","tag-sybil-danning","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}