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The ninth annual edition of Kansas City’s Panic Fest is loaded with amazing horror, thriller, and genre films, and it will combine both in-person and online screenings. The hybrid edition takes place from April 8–18, 2021. I have seen a few of the films on tap, and can tell you that you will be hard-pressed to find a funnier horror comedy this season than Canadian offering Vicious Fun, while killer stuffed animal comedy Benny Loves You and Australian horror comedy An Ideal Host offer their fair shares of laughs and shocks, as well. Films such as An Unquiet Grave and The Old Ways take darker approaches to fear-fare, and science fiction fans will find features such as Parallel Minds much to their liking. Following is the official press release. Panic Fest kicks off two weeks of genre packed programming as the ninth annual festival begins April 8, 2021, virtually and in person at Screenland Armour in Kansas City, MO. “We
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Using the real-life 1987 Max Headroom signal hijacking of a television broadcast and the viral Tara the Android video of “I Feel Fantastic” as jumping-off points, director Jacob Gentry’s 1999-set Broadcast Signal Intrusion is an effective thriller that dwells in the realms of paranoia and conspiracy theories. Bolstered by a top-notch performance from Harry Shum Jr. as a widower who stumbles on the mysterious titular event and finds himself obsessed by it, the film is an intriguing journey down a curious rabbit hole. Shum Jr. portrays James, who repairs audio and transcribes VHS media to DVD. One night, he accidentally catches sight of an eerie broadcast of a person dressed up like a TV character — a female robot adopted by a typical 1980s sitcom family — whose voice is masked by audio garble. When James learns that there are actually multiple broadcasts, including one that may or may not actually exist, he begins trying to piece together connections to
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Welsh shocker The Feast is an unsettling, eerie slice of horror cinema that jangles the nerves and does a beautiful job of slowly unraveling its secrets until its mind-boggling third act sticks the landing. This is instant classic fright fare, and the film will be hard to topple from its current spot as my favorite horror movie of this year. Food server Cadi (Annes Elwy in a superb performance) is filling in for the woman who usually helps Glenda (Nia Roberts), the wife of politician Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones), prepare dinners for guests in the couple’s sumptuous, high-tech country home. Invited to dinner are businessman Euros (Rhodri Mielir) and neighbor Delyth (Caroline Berry), and reluctant to attend are the couple’s oldest son Gweirydd (Sion Alun Davies), who is preparing for a triathlon when not displaying perverse behavior, and Guto (Steffan Cennydd), a drug-addicted would-be musician. The events of The Feast unfold over the course of one evening, from preparation time
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The Dark Zone Network presents another epic live three-day streaming event – a paranormal investigation of America’s most haunted police precinct, LAPD Station #11. Visitors at the Los Angeles Police Museum often report strange activity including mannequins moving, disembodied voices speaking, and even invisible hands reaching out to touch someone! It’s enough to make the hair on the back of the neck of the toughest cop stand up. Built in 1925, the haunted halls of LA’s old Northeast Division Police Station #11, have hosted many of the most heinous criminals and housed the horrific evidence used to prosecute their crimes—murder cases like the Manson Family Murders, the Hillside Strangler, the Black Dahlia, the Onion Field Murders, The Night Stalker, The North Hollywood Shoot-Out. In fact, a psychic medium recently revealed that one of the deceased bank robbers from that shoot-out often stands behind an employee and touches her hair. And then there are those other puzzling cases that have left
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We’ve got a new teaser for write – directors Philip Gelatt and Michael Galen King‘s ultra-violent epic animated fantasy film The Spine of the Night featuring Richard E. Grant and Lucy Lawless. Inspired by the cult classic works of animators Ralph Bakshi and Frank Franzetta, the film is set in a fantasy land ripe with magic and intrigue where a dark force is unleashed sending mankind into an age of ruin. It falls on heroes from different eras and cultures to fight back. “This epic begins many years ago when an ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant and, as he falls to its darker temptations, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, there are many who stand against him. Among them are a daring tomb-robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer, winged assassins, and an undying guardian.” Richard E. Grant (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Lucy Lawless (“Ash vs Evil Dead”, “Xena: Warrior
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Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival will repeat the free, online format that worked splendidly for it last year for its 2021 edition. The first batch of its scheduled offerings for this year includes horror films and horror comedies from around the globe. Following is the official press announcement. Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival announced via Deadline that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, its seventeenth edition will again be held online and completely free of charge. The 2021 edition of the beloved South American genre festival is supported by a special grant from the Brazilian government, which is offered to relevant cultural events amidst the pandemic. The festival will also renew its partnership with Darkflix, Brazil’s immensely popular streaming service aimed at fantastic genre cinema. Fantaspoa’s festival directors are keenly aware of the fact that no live events will take place in the cinemas of Porto Alegre in 2021. Theaters currently remain closed due to a worsening of the virus and
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It’s that time of year where things are slow and boredom runs rampant. One good way to pass the time is to read a good book, but with it being hard (and potentially dangerous) to go out and look for books, why not just find a bunch of them in one place? Today the Supermassive Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror by Tachyon has gone live on Humble Bundle till the 27th (of March) where potential readers can have access or over 40 Ebooks that are valued at $441 but YOU decide how much you want to pay, there are four tiers that when you pay to unlock a certain number of Ebooks you can own ($1 = 4 books, $10+ = 8 books, $18+ = 11 books, $28+ = 24 books). All proceeds for the Supermassive Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror by Tachyon, like other bundles on the site, go towards charity, proceeds from this bundle will go towards the Electronic Frontier
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Vienna, Austria’s SLASH Filmfestival features horror, science fiction, fantasy, and other genre films from around the world — both features and shorts — and the fest has opened submissions for two exciting events this year. Following is the official press announcement. SLASH Filmfestival, Austria’s leading festival for Fantastic Film and the second-most heavily frequented Viennese film festival after the Viennale, has set new dates for 2021. The three-day mini festival SLASH 1/2 is postponed to June 17 to 19, 2021. The main event in fall will take place as scheduled. The twelfth edition of SLASH runs from September 23 through October 3, 2021, taking place in four cinemas with a total of five screens. Submissions for 2021 SLASH now open! SLASH 2021 short and feature film competition The submissions to the 12th SLASH Filmfestival are now open! Filmmakers from across the world are invited to submit their work via FilmFreeway. Both short films (30 minutes or less) and feature films
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Neill Blomkamp, the filmmaker behind District 9, Chappie, and Elysium secretly filmed, Demonic, a supernatural horror film last summer in British Columbia. Now, it’s heading to the upcoming European Film Market to hopefully find distribution. ScreenDaily quotes AGC head, Stuart Ford, as saying “Typically for Neill’s films it has a highly original visual component as well as some great scares.” The film, whose cast and details are still being kept hush, hush is being described as having “a strong sci-fi and VFX component,” and is the movie the director has always wanted to make. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime check out our interview with Neill Blomkamp about his series of short sci-fi horror films Rakka, Firebase, Zygote, and Lima.
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Found-footage horror movie fans need to mark March 26th on their calendars because that is the date that San Francisco’s Unnamed Footage Festival will hold a live, one-time-only, day-long marathon of features and shorts, as well as Q&As with filmmakers and industry professionals. All the details follow in the fest’s official press release. Since 2018, the Unnamed Footage Festival has brought a unique and often obscure selection of found footage horror, first-person POV cinema, and faux documentary to San Francisco, with previous festivals being hosted at the historic Balboa Theatre, the Roxie Theater, and ATA. Strange times call for strange measures, and like so many other events, the fourth edition of the annual film festival is moving to a virtual landscape in the form of a 24-hour long webathon. UFF24hr will be a live, one-time-only, day-long marathon of weird and exclusive in-world camera features and shorts, alongside Q&As with filmmakers and industry professionals. Beginning on March 26th at 7 PM
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The ninth annual edition of Kansas City’s Panic Fest is loaded with amazing horror, thriller, and genre films, and it will combine both in-person and online screenings. The hybrid edition takes place from April 8–18, 2021. I have seen a few of the films on tap, and can tell you that you will be hard-pressed to find a funnier horror comedy this season than Canadian offering Vicious Fun, while killer stuffed animal comedy Benny Loves You and Australian horror comedy An Ideal Host offer their fair shares of laughs and shocks, as well. Films such as An Unquiet Grave and The Old Ways take darker approaches to fear-fare, and science fiction fans will find features such as Parallel Minds much to their liking. Following is the official press release. Panic Fest kicks off two weeks of genre packed programming as the ninth annual festival begins April 8, 2021, virtually and in person at Screenland Armour in Kansas City, MO. “We
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsReviews
Using the real-life 1987 Max Headroom signal hijacking of a television broadcast and the viral Tara the Android video of “I Feel Fantastic” as jumping-off points, director Jacob Gentry’s 1999-set Broadcast Signal Intrusion is an effective thriller that dwells in the realms of paranoia and conspiracy theories. Bolstered by a top-notch performance from Harry Shum Jr. as a widower who stumbles on the mysterious titular event and finds himself obsessed by it, the film is an intriguing journey down a curious rabbit hole. Shum Jr. portrays James, who repairs audio and transcribes VHS media to DVD. One night, he accidentally catches sight of an eerie broadcast of a person dressed up like a TV character — a female robot adopted by a typical 1980s sitcom family — whose voice is masked by audio garble. When James learns that there are actually multiple broadcasts, including one that may or may not actually exist, he begins trying to piece together connections to
Continue reading →
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Welsh shocker The Feast is an unsettling, eerie slice of horror cinema that jangles the nerves and does a beautiful job of slowly unraveling its secrets until its mind-boggling third act sticks the landing. This is instant classic fright fare, and the film will be hard to topple from its current spot as my favorite horror movie of this year. Food server Cadi (Annes Elwy in a superb performance) is filling in for the woman who usually helps Glenda (Nia Roberts), the wife of politician Gwyn (Julian Lewis Jones), prepare dinners for guests in the couple’s sumptuous, high-tech country home. Invited to dinner are businessman Euros (Rhodri Mielir) and neighbor Delyth (Caroline Berry), and reluctant to attend are the couple’s oldest son Gweirydd (Sion Alun Davies), who is preparing for a triathlon when not displaying perverse behavior, and Guto (Steffan Cennydd), a drug-addicted would-be musician. The events of The Feast unfold over the course of one evening, from preparation time
Continue reading →
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The Dark Zone Network presents another epic live three-day streaming event – a paranormal investigation of America’s most haunted police precinct, LAPD Station #11. Visitors at the Los Angeles Police Museum often report strange activity including mannequins moving, disembodied voices speaking, and even invisible hands reaching out to touch someone! It’s enough to make the hair on the back of the neck of the toughest cop stand up. Built in 1925, the haunted halls of LA’s old Northeast Division Police Station #11, have hosted many of the most heinous criminals and housed the horrific evidence used to prosecute their crimes—murder cases like the Manson Family Murders, the Hillside Strangler, the Black Dahlia, the Onion Field Murders, The Night Stalker, The North Hollywood Shoot-Out. In fact, a psychic medium recently revealed that one of the deceased bank robbers from that shoot-out often stands behind an employee and touches her hair. And then there are those other puzzling cases that have left
Continue reading →
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We’ve got a new teaser for write – directors Philip Gelatt and Michael Galen King‘s ultra-violent epic animated fantasy film The Spine of the Night featuring Richard E. Grant and Lucy Lawless. Inspired by the cult classic works of animators Ralph Bakshi and Frank Franzetta, the film is set in a fantasy land ripe with magic and intrigue where a dark force is unleashed sending mankind into an age of ruin. It falls on heroes from different eras and cultures to fight back. “This epic begins many years ago when an ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant and, as he falls to its darker temptations, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, there are many who stand against him. Among them are a daring tomb-robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer, winged assassins, and an undying guardian.” Richard E. Grant (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Lucy Lawless (“Ash vs Evil Dead”, “Xena: Warrior
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Film Festivals
Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival will repeat the free, online format that worked splendidly for it last year for its 2021 edition. The first batch of its scheduled offerings for this year includes horror films and horror comedies from around the globe. Following is the official press announcement. Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival announced via Deadline that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, its seventeenth edition will again be held online and completely free of charge. The 2021 edition of the beloved South American genre festival is supported by a special grant from the Brazilian government, which is offered to relevant cultural events amidst the pandemic. The festival will also renew its partnership with Darkflix, Brazil’s immensely popular streaming service aimed at fantastic genre cinema. Fantaspoa’s festival directors are keenly aware of the fact that no live events will take place in the cinemas of Porto Alegre in 2021. Theaters currently remain closed due to a worsening of the virus and
Continue reading →
BooksEventsNewsParanormalProduct
It’s that time of year where things are slow and boredom runs rampant. One good way to pass the time is to read a good book, but with it being hard (and potentially dangerous) to go out and look for books, why not just find a bunch of them in one place? Today the Supermassive Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror by Tachyon has gone live on Humble Bundle till the 27th (of March) where potential readers can have access or over 40 Ebooks that are valued at $441 but YOU decide how much you want to pay, there are four tiers that when you pay to unlock a certain number of Ebooks you can own ($1 = 4 books, $10+ = 8 books, $18+ = 11 books, $28+ = 24 books). All proceeds for the Supermassive Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror by Tachyon, like other bundles on the site, go towards charity, proceeds from this bundle will go towards the Electronic Frontier
Continue reading →
Film Festivals
Vienna, Austria’s SLASH Filmfestival features horror, science fiction, fantasy, and other genre films from around the world — both features and shorts — and the fest has opened submissions for two exciting events this year. Following is the official press announcement. SLASH Filmfestival, Austria’s leading festival for Fantastic Film and the second-most heavily frequented Viennese film festival after the Viennale, has set new dates for 2021. The three-day mini festival SLASH 1/2 is postponed to June 17 to 19, 2021. The main event in fall will take place as scheduled. The twelfth edition of SLASH runs from September 23 through October 3, 2021, taking place in four cinemas with a total of five screens. Submissions for 2021 SLASH now open! SLASH 2021 short and feature film competition The submissions to the 12th SLASH Filmfestival are now open! Filmmakers from across the world are invited to submit their work via FilmFreeway. Both short films (30 minutes or less) and feature films
Continue reading →
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Neill Blomkamp, the filmmaker behind District 9, Chappie, and Elysium secretly filmed, Demonic, a supernatural horror film last summer in British Columbia. Now, it’s heading to the upcoming European Film Market to hopefully find distribution. ScreenDaily quotes AGC head, Stuart Ford, as saying “Typically for Neill’s films it has a highly original visual component as well as some great scares.” The film, whose cast and details are still being kept hush, hush is being described as having “a strong sci-fi and VFX component,” and is the movie the director has always wanted to make. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime check out our interview with Neill Blomkamp about his series of short sci-fi horror films Rakka, Firebase, Zygote, and Lima.
Continue reading →
Film Festivals
Found-footage horror movie fans need to mark March 26th on their calendars because that is the date that San Francisco’s Unnamed Footage Festival will hold a live, one-time-only, day-long marathon of features and shorts, as well as Q&As with filmmakers and industry professionals. All the details follow in the fest’s official press release. Since 2018, the Unnamed Footage Festival has brought a unique and often obscure selection of found footage horror, first-person POV cinema, and faux documentary to San Francisco, with previous festivals being hosted at the historic Balboa Theatre, the Roxie Theater, and ATA. Strange times call for strange measures, and like so many other events, the fourth edition of the annual film festival is moving to a virtual landscape in the form of a 24-hour long webathon. UFF24hr will be a live, one-time-only, day-long marathon of weird and exclusive in-world camera features and shorts, alongside Q&As with filmmakers and industry professionals. Beginning on March 26th at 7 PM
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