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Bellport Theater On The Air, the podcast studio founded by animation veterans Fred Seibert and Kevin Kolde, has announced its inaugural series, The Department of Midnight. The six-part audio drama was created by acclaimed comic book writer Warren Ellis. The dark tale is a gripping blend of science fiction, folklore, and horror. The Department of Midnight follows Dr. John Carnack (James Callis). He is investigating a dangerous dark matter experiment for a government agency. Haunted by a past tragedy linked to his research, Carnack races against time to prevent catastrophic events while uncovering a sinister pattern that leads directly back to him. The series boasts an impressive cast, including Longlegs star Alicia Witt. Witt is joined by Gildart Jackson, Adrianne Palicki, Nolan North, Brett Dalton, and Carla Gugino. “We’re thrilled to kick off Bellport Theater On The Air with such a compelling and original series,” said Kevin Kolde. “Warren Ellis’s visionary storytelling combined with an extraordinary cast makes The Department
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Today Saber Interactive and Stormind Games have announced the release date for the upcoming horror survival game A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, which takes place in the cinematic universe of the A Quiet Place films. Along with the news comes information about pre-orders that will give players the hospital care package, digital concept art, and an animation showcase of the creatures. Play as Alex, a young college student suffering from asthma who is trying to survive alongside her boyfriend Martin as the world comes to a silent halt from an otherworldly invasion by creatures who hunt by sound. Alex must go through the ruins of civilization using her wits and ingenuity to observe the environments, and leveraging whatever tools are at her disposal to sneak, hide, and distract the creatures. A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead will be coming out on October 17th for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam.
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The trailer for the sci-fi horror movie Hell Hole has landed following its poster release last week. In the trailer, a drilling company makes a dark discovery, unwittingly unleashing a horrifying creature. This creature feature sees a fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness at odds with government-assigned environmental advisors. When they begin to drill, the workers uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster entombed deep in the frozen rock. Now awakened, it tears through the mining facility in search of the perfect host. The crew must fight to survive. Hell Hole is the latest brainchild of the Adams Family filmmaking team—John Adams, Lulu Adams, and Toby Poser. The cast includes Toby Poser, John Adams, Lulu Adams, Max Portman, Anders Hove, and Olivera Perunicic. The Adams family is a force to be reckoned with in independent filmmaking. Led by husband and wife team John Adams and Toby Poser, Wonder Wheel Productions churns out movies as a true family affair.
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Electrophilia (Los Impactados) Argentinian feature Electrophilia touches on body horror and eroticism involving electricity but never goes full-on with these themes, instead feeling more like a character study of its protagonist, veterinarian Amanda (Mariana Di Girólamo). The young woman is struck by lightning and after she recovers from a six-week coma, she begins to feel changes that have happened to her mind and now-scarred body. She falls in with a group of lightning-strike survivors under the care of Juan (Germán Palacios), a doctor who uses unorthodox methods to treat those under his care, and begins an affair with him. Amanda develops sexual kinks related to electrical charges and shocks, worrying her significant other Jano (Guillermo Pfening). Director Lucía Puenzo, who cowrote the screenplay with Lorean Ventimigila, leaves viewers hanging with plot points that seem to have no resolution, such as Jano secretly going into Juan’s office and finding the doctor’s file on Amanda but then that scene not being addressed
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It’s no secret that I like the gaming glasses by GUNNAR, the leading seller of glasses for the digital age where we spend more time looking at screens than at anything else, and as a result, some folks are affected negatively by the lights coming from those screens. GUNNAR is leading the way with eye protection from harmful lights coming from screens. GUNNAR now has teamed up with Blizzard to bring gamers and fans of the game series Overwatch two new limited edition gaming glasses! GUNNAR was awesome enough to send over the two new pairs that await fans. First is the Overwatch Ultimate, sporting the colors of the game (Black and Orange) with a comfortable wide range of view that will allow players to not miss a thing (or shot) while taking on the other team during a match. With a drawstring bag featuring Tracer and Echo, and a cleaning cloth with Reinhardt, Mei, Mercy, and Winston. The second
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Hey, it’s Joe Chappelle’s (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) adaptation of horror author Dean R. Koontz’s (who also wrote the screenplay) Phantoms… a movie I have seen exactly once upon it’s release (now considerably more thanks to this review) and couldn’t get into (mostly because I was too busy making out with my ghoul-friend at the time). Now, some of you cats n’ creeps may only know this flick as the subject of a punchline in one of Kevin Smith’s anecdotal tales (although him making fun of anyone’s picture is the glassiest of glass houses considering the cinematic shits he’s delivered as of late), but at it’s core, Phantoms is a solid- enough supernatural shocker. M.D. Jennifer Pailey (Joanna Going) decides to bring her troubled sister Lisa (Rose McGowan, Scream, Planet Terror) on a sabbatical to the remote Colorado town she calls home, but as is the way, most of the town is dead… not like in a “slow
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The moon is mysterious, true we’ve sent men to it and are planning to go back soon. Mystery awaits humanity but, what if, there’s something there, something man-made? That’s what Lifeless Worlds and Serenity Forge offer players in Lifeless Moon. Lifeless Moon puts players in the boots of an Astronaut on one of the Apollo Moon Missions. While exploring the moon with your crewmate, you discover a rip in space and time that sends you to another world, or are you still on the moon? Now, onto the game itself! when it comes to Lifeless Moon‘s controls, there is not a whole lot as the game is mainly exploration and platforming. One issue that annoyed me to no end while playing was the inventory and notebook mechanic, as from time to time the notebook’s pages seem to glitch. When it comes to the game’s sound, it’s OK but what I liked was the soundtrack even though at times the music
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So dig this; in prehistoric times aliens visited the Earth and created mankind along with a race of monstrous mutants named Zoanoids. They also created a way of destroying the Zoanoids called a Guyver unit; a suit of bio-mechanic armor that encases it’s user from head to toe and gives them amazing ability as well as deadly weaponry. We learn this via on screen text before we cut to a scientist named Dr. Tetsu Segawa (Greg Joung Paik) haulin’ ass away from the Chronos Corporation, pilfered items in tow… items he hides before turning into a fish monster and battling Chronos’ security goons, who’s ranks include Jimmy “JJ” Walker (from beloved ’70s television sitcom Good Times… and yes, he says “Dy-no-mite” in the film at least once, and raps throughout) and The Hills Have Eyes‘ Michael Berryman. As if it isn’t strange enough, Berryman’s character Lisker… in truth a Zoanoid, as are all the Chronos cronies… turns into a monster
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Check this one out cats n’ creeps… A meteor crashes in the artic that harbors an alien force… a force that can mimic human beings and is hell bent on bringing all sorts of space madness to a group of isolated scientists at a remote, snowbound facility. I know what you are thinking, this has to be an uncredited adaptation of 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?… well it’s certainly that whether it admits it or not, but the more obvious inspiration to fright fans would be John Carpenters’ 1982 masterpiece, The Thing, an adaptation of the same (and itself a re-imagining of the 1951 Howard Hawkes version of Campbell’s tale The Thing From Another World). So yeah, we got a derivative tale here, which can be perfectly fine if something new and exciting is done with the material… but unfortunately Jesse Palangio’s Blood and Snow is absolutely power slammed by it’s budget making it impossible to
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A diminutive comet hurtles through the steel-gray New York City winter sky before crash landing in an apartment building (where it comes to rest in a dollhouse) where it promptly cracks open revealing it was an egg containing a small spider… a spider that is found by a young girl named Charlotte (Alyla Browne). Charlotte takes her new pet home… to the apartment she shares with her mother, Heather (Penelope Mitchell), infant sibling, Liam, and building superintendent/comic book artist step-father Ethan (Ryan Corr)… and names her new friend Sting. So, space-spider Sting is actually super smart as well, which would be fine and dandy if she didn’t apply that insidious intelligence to facilitate feeding on the dwelling’s residents (as well as any exterminator stupid enough to get in her way)… oh and she’s growing… and growing… So much so, that things look rather dire for those that call the building home! Coming from Writer/Director Kiah Roache-Turner (who brought us the
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Bellport Theater On The Air, the podcast studio founded by animation veterans Fred Seibert and Kevin Kolde, has announced its inaugural series, The Department of Midnight. The six-part audio drama was created by acclaimed comic book writer Warren Ellis. The dark tale is a gripping blend of science fiction, folklore, and horror. The Department of Midnight follows Dr. John Carnack (James Callis). He is investigating a dangerous dark matter experiment for a government agency. Haunted by a past tragedy linked to his research, Carnack races against time to prevent catastrophic events while uncovering a sinister pattern that leads directly back to him. The series boasts an impressive cast, including Longlegs star Alicia Witt. Witt is joined by Gildart Jackson, Adrianne Palicki, Nolan North, Brett Dalton, and Carla Gugino. “We’re thrilled to kick off Bellport Theater On The Air with such a compelling and original series,” said Kevin Kolde. “Warren Ellis’s visionary storytelling combined with an extraordinary cast makes The Department
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Today Saber Interactive and Stormind Games have announced the release date for the upcoming horror survival game A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, which takes place in the cinematic universe of the A Quiet Place films. Along with the news comes information about pre-orders that will give players the hospital care package, digital concept art, and an animation showcase of the creatures. Play as Alex, a young college student suffering from asthma who is trying to survive alongside her boyfriend Martin as the world comes to a silent halt from an otherworldly invasion by creatures who hunt by sound. Alex must go through the ruins of civilization using her wits and ingenuity to observe the environments, and leveraging whatever tools are at her disposal to sneak, hide, and distract the creatures. A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead will be coming out on October 17th for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam.
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MoviesNewsSci-FiTrailers
The trailer for the sci-fi horror movie Hell Hole has landed following its poster release last week. In the trailer, a drilling company makes a dark discovery, unwittingly unleashing a horrifying creature. This creature feature sees a fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness at odds with government-assigned environmental advisors. When they begin to drill, the workers uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster entombed deep in the frozen rock. Now awakened, it tears through the mining facility in search of the perfect host. The crew must fight to survive. Hell Hole is the latest brainchild of the Adams Family filmmaking team—John Adams, Lulu Adams, and Toby Poser. The cast includes Toby Poser, John Adams, Lulu Adams, Max Portman, Anders Hove, and Olivera Perunicic. The Adams family is a force to be reckoned with in independent filmmaking. Led by husband and wife team John Adams and Toby Poser, Wonder Wheel Productions churns out movies as a true family affair.
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsForeignMoviesReviewsSci-FiShort Films
Electrophilia (Los Impactados) Argentinian feature Electrophilia touches on body horror and eroticism involving electricity but never goes full-on with these themes, instead feeling more like a character study of its protagonist, veterinarian Amanda (Mariana Di Girólamo). The young woman is struck by lightning and after she recovers from a six-week coma, she begins to feel changes that have happened to her mind and now-scarred body. She falls in with a group of lightning-strike survivors under the care of Juan (Germán Palacios), a doctor who uses unorthodox methods to treat those under his care, and begins an affair with him. Amanda develops sexual kinks related to electrical charges and shocks, worrying her significant other Jano (Guillermo Pfening). Director Lucía Puenzo, who cowrote the screenplay with Lorean Ventimigila, leaves viewers hanging with plot points that seem to have no resolution, such as Jano secretly going into Juan’s office and finding the doctor’s file on Amanda but then that scene not being addressed
Continue reading →
GamingNewsProductReviewsSci-Fi
It’s no secret that I like the gaming glasses by GUNNAR, the leading seller of glasses for the digital age where we spend more time looking at screens than at anything else, and as a result, some folks are affected negatively by the lights coming from those screens. GUNNAR is leading the way with eye protection from harmful lights coming from screens. GUNNAR now has teamed up with Blizzard to bring gamers and fans of the game series Overwatch two new limited edition gaming glasses! GUNNAR was awesome enough to send over the two new pairs that await fans. First is the Overwatch Ultimate, sporting the colors of the game (Black and Orange) with a comfortable wide range of view that will allow players to not miss a thing (or shot) while taking on the other team during a match. With a drawstring bag featuring Tracer and Echo, and a cleaning cloth with Reinhardt, Mei, Mercy, and Winston. The second
Continue reading →
AdaptationBooksMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
Hey, it’s Joe Chappelle’s (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) adaptation of horror author Dean R. Koontz’s (who also wrote the screenplay) Phantoms… a movie I have seen exactly once upon it’s release (now considerably more thanks to this review) and couldn’t get into (mostly because I was too busy making out with my ghoul-friend at the time). Now, some of you cats n’ creeps may only know this flick as the subject of a punchline in one of Kevin Smith’s anecdotal tales (although him making fun of anyone’s picture is the glassiest of glass houses considering the cinematic shits he’s delivered as of late), but at it’s core, Phantoms is a solid- enough supernatural shocker. M.D. Jennifer Pailey (Joanna Going) decides to bring her troubled sister Lisa (Rose McGowan, Scream, Planet Terror) on a sabbatical to the remote Colorado town she calls home, but as is the way, most of the town is dead… not like in a “slow
Continue reading →
GamingIndieParanormalProductReviewsSci-Fi
The moon is mysterious, true we’ve sent men to it and are planning to go back soon. Mystery awaits humanity but, what if, there’s something there, something man-made? That’s what Lifeless Worlds and Serenity Forge offer players in Lifeless Moon. Lifeless Moon puts players in the boots of an Astronaut on one of the Apollo Moon Missions. While exploring the moon with your crewmate, you discover a rip in space and time that sends you to another world, or are you still on the moon? Now, onto the game itself! when it comes to Lifeless Moon‘s controls, there is not a whole lot as the game is mainly exploration and platforming. One issue that annoyed me to no end while playing was the inventory and notebook mechanic, as from time to time the notebook’s pages seem to glitch. When it comes to the game’s sound, it’s OK but what I liked was the soundtrack even though at times the music
Continue reading →
AdaptationBooksComic Books/Graphic NovelsIndieMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
So dig this; in prehistoric times aliens visited the Earth and created mankind along with a race of monstrous mutants named Zoanoids. They also created a way of destroying the Zoanoids called a Guyver unit; a suit of bio-mechanic armor that encases it’s user from head to toe and gives them amazing ability as well as deadly weaponry. We learn this via on screen text before we cut to a scientist named Dr. Tetsu Segawa (Greg Joung Paik) haulin’ ass away from the Chronos Corporation, pilfered items in tow… items he hides before turning into a fish monster and battling Chronos’ security goons, who’s ranks include Jimmy “JJ” Walker (from beloved ’70s television sitcom Good Times… and yes, he says “Dy-no-mite” in the film at least once, and raps throughout) and The Hills Have Eyes‘ Michael Berryman. As if it isn’t strange enough, Berryman’s character Lisker… in truth a Zoanoid, as are all the Chronos cronies… turns into a monster
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
Check this one out cats n’ creeps… A meteor crashes in the artic that harbors an alien force… a force that can mimic human beings and is hell bent on bringing all sorts of space madness to a group of isolated scientists at a remote, snowbound facility. I know what you are thinking, this has to be an uncredited adaptation of 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?… well it’s certainly that whether it admits it or not, but the more obvious inspiration to fright fans would be John Carpenters’ 1982 masterpiece, The Thing, an adaptation of the same (and itself a re-imagining of the 1951 Howard Hawkes version of Campbell’s tale The Thing From Another World). So yeah, we got a derivative tale here, which can be perfectly fine if something new and exciting is done with the material… but unfortunately Jesse Palangio’s Blood and Snow is absolutely power slammed by it’s budget making it impossible to
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
A diminutive comet hurtles through the steel-gray New York City winter sky before crash landing in an apartment building (where it comes to rest in a dollhouse) where it promptly cracks open revealing it was an egg containing a small spider… a spider that is found by a young girl named Charlotte (Alyla Browne). Charlotte takes her new pet home… to the apartment she shares with her mother, Heather (Penelope Mitchell), infant sibling, Liam, and building superintendent/comic book artist step-father Ethan (Ryan Corr)… and names her new friend Sting. So, space-spider Sting is actually super smart as well, which would be fine and dandy if she didn’t apply that insidious intelligence to facilitate feeding on the dwelling’s residents (as well as any exterminator stupid enough to get in her way)… oh and she’s growing… and growing… So much so, that things look rather dire for those that call the building home! Coming from Writer/Director Kiah Roache-Turner (who brought us the
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