{"id":45853,"date":"2025-10-31T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=45853"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:15:47","slug":"universal-horror-mystery-minis-red-us-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/universal-horror-mystery-minis-red-us-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Horror Mystery Minis - Red (Us) review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" alt=\"Funko Friday\" title=\"Funko Friday\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>So is the secret point of this <i>Universal Horror Mystery Minis<\/i> line basically just \"wait, <b>that's<\/b> from Universal? Oh okay.\"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In 2015, <i>Key & Peele<\/i> did a sketch about OutKast's <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/funko_uhmm1_usred1.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"415\" title=\"Red (shown twice actual size)\" align=right style=\"margin:7px 10px 0px 15px\">Big Boi and Andre 3000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=02cSc5a49LA\" target=yt>running into each other at a coffee shop<\/a>. It's almost comically easy, with Keegan-Michael Key playing the goofy Andre and Jordan Peele as the serious Big Boi, to view it as a sketch about the actors themselves, now that Peele is a major, respected name in horror directing, while Key is voicing animated movies in any role that allows him to sound and act exactly like himself. Like, <a href=\"\/yo\/tfmone_op.php\"><i>Transformers One<\/i><\/a> is great, but Chris Hemsworth sounded like Optimus Prime, Scarlett Johansson sounded like Elita-1, and Bumblebee sounded like Keegan-Michael Key. But I'm getting off-topic.<\/p>\n<p>2019's <i>Us<\/i>, inspired by the 1960 <i>Twilight Zone<\/i> episode \"Mirror Image,\" sees the Wilson family tormented by a group of strange, jumpsuited people while on vacation - people who look exactly like them. Its message isn't as blatant as <i><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=45930\">Get Out<\/a><\/i>'s, but it still has a point to make.<\/p>\n<p>There are three <i>Us<\/i> minis in this series, but at a 1:6 ratio, this is the most common. It's based on the movie poster, which saw Lupita Nyong'o peering out at the viewer <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/funko_uhmm1_usred2.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"215\" title=\"peekaboo!\" align=left style=\"margin:0px 10px 0px 0px\">from behind a mask of her own face: symbolism that reads perfectly clearly when you've seen the film, but was still fully unsettling when you haven't. The figure is just standing straight up, but much like <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=45429\">The Nun's<\/a> painting, she's actually holding a separate mask in front of her. Unlike the Nun, the piece seems to be glued into her forehead, rather than just being free-floating. Matching the poster, the eyes on the mask are hollow, meaning you can see the figure's painted eye peering through. A teardrop is painted rolling down her right cheek. Considering the poster image was just from the chest up, it seems like a missed opportunity to not have Red holding a pair of scissors in her \"off screen\" left hand. The tan leather glove and the thin straps of her sandals are painted cleanly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So is the secret point of this Universal Horror Mystery Minis line basically just \"wait, that's from Universal? 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