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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

Worse News: Metal, Martial Arts and Cosmic Horror in Richard Stanley’s new film Steel Donkeys featuring Martial Arts legend Cynthia Rothrock!

Posted: 27/07/2025 in Worse News
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6 years after his unlikely comeback with Color Out of Space (staring none other than the legendary Nic Cage) Richard Stanley is back at it again. In his first UK production since his debut Hardware (1990) Stanley is preparing to shoot a Rock Festival meets Lovecraftian Horror film called Iron Donkey.

And if that isn’t enough he is casting a number of Rockstars and at least one Martial Arts star, because the first casting is surprisingly a Hong Kong action movie veteran Cynthia Rothrock (Yes, Madam, China O’Brian & Black Creek).


“The stars have aligned to conjure this dream into manifestation, a perfect storm of metal, martial arts and cosmic horror, precision calibrated to burn its way into the brains of a whole new generation of metal fans. It makes me hugely happy to be back in the UK and to be returning to my cultural roots with this supernaturally charged psychedelic hand grenade, freely inspired by a real-life misadventure from my younger years. Given the current state of the nation, I firmly believe Steel Donkeys is exactly
what Britain both needs and deserves…”

Movie is to be shoot during a Bloodstock Open Air festival (in Derbyshire) in August with additional filming in KK’S Steel Mill, owned of course by none other than K.K. Downings (ex- Judas Priest). Doesn’t get much more Metal than that.

Heavy Metal meets Horror ( ala Trick or Treat) has always been one of the sub-genres we had crazy fun with, so we can’t wait to see more of this project– hopefully we won’t be waiting long.