Worse News: Magic, Metal & Martial Arts! Richard Stanley’s STEEL DONKEYS has finally finished filming!

Posted: 28/08/2026 in Tribute, Worse News
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Crazy genre mash-up we wrote about year ago, Richard Staney’s STEEL DONKEYS-has finally finished it’s principal photography.

Stanley (Hardware, Color out of Space) envisioned the project as a Heist movie meets Heavy Metal meets Horror with an added splash of Martial Arts. His first project since the excellent Lovecraft adaptation Color out of Space. And against all odds he got it made.

All exterior shots were filmed last year at Bloodstock Open Air, one of the Britain’s premiere Metal festivals. Their ’25 line-up featured: Trivium, Machine Head, Gojira and Mastodon. The rest of the production filmed at KK’s Steel Mill in Wolverhampton- property of a legendary guitarist K.K. Downing (ex-Judas Priest) who has a role in the film.

-The film centres around three young, small-time crooks tasked with stealing a precious artefact of great power from a mysterious rock star at a huge music festival.The botched heist takes an apocalyptic turn as the three teenagers unwittingly unleash a malignant Afro-Caribbean entity, imprisoned for eons within the artifact that proceeds to party like a demon, wreaking havoc on the bank holiday revellers and threatening to bring the world as we know it to an end. As the night of high octane weirdness escalates out of control, the teenagers find their only hope is to recruit a team of unlikely heroes to battle the demon and restore balance to the universe.-

Cynthia Rothrock as ‘Cyndi’, Gabe Blaikie as ‘Hunter’ and Jason Lamar Rickets as Mr Scratch- celestial warriors facing a cosmic nightmare in STEEL DONKEYS

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