via JapanToday
Get locked up with Jurassic Block
Sean Cain directs and writes, and Jurassic Block stars Ray Wise, Vernon Wells, Kevin Gage, Dana Melanie, Kayla Carlyle, and Monique Parent.
A trio of sorority girls are tossed in the drunk tank after a wild party gone wrong. They have to team up with some nasty characters to survive the night after a pack of Velociraptors get loose when a secret convoy is diverted from their original destination to the bowels of the jail.
Links From the Crypt!
If you are like me, you got piles and piles of stone cold cash that you don’t know what to do with. Don’t spend that money paying your phone bill, instead donate it some friends in need!
**SA CineD buddy and sometimes TarsTarkas.NET contributor Donald Hallene III has an indiegogo up to fund his school project film Slumber City:
Slumber City is a film. A short film. A Student Film. It is the senior thesis project of Donald Hallene III (aka Me!) and will be the last big chance to show off my creativity and flair before I graduate from film school.
Slumber City follows Nathaniel McKay, a struggling writer who also struggles with bad dreams. As a child, he had terrible dreams, most featuring a dreaded figure he calls Mr. Night. As he grew older, he found ways to supress the dreams, but now they are fighting their way back, and his daughter Molly has started to have them as well.
While spending a weekend with Molly, the two of them are whisked away to a strange place called Slumber City, where all of Nathaniel’s repressed dreams live. Mr. Night has taken Molly, and Nathaniel has until sunrise to get her back. With help from a strange new friend, he must find the clues to free Molly.
Slumber City is a fun fantasy adventure set in a world of nightmares and monsters. The film will be shot in the Summer of 2013, with a public release currently scheduled for October 2013
**And fellow MOSS agent Carol at the Cultural Gutter is going on another round of funding with Gutter-a-go-go Raids Again!
The Cultural Gutter was created in the early years of the new millennium to fulfill a dream–provide quality, clear-eyed writing about disreputable art. Since 2004, we have written about videogames, comics, science fiction, fantasy, genre film, romance and television. And throughout that time, we have maintained a commitment to paying writers for their work.
In summer 2012, like many other arts organizations, we lost our Canada Arts Council operations grant. The legions of mazer tanks surrounded the vulnerable Cultural Gutter. But that fall, friends of the Cultural Gutter rallied to our Gutter-A-Go-Go campaign to help us keep our commitment to paying writers for their work. While we fell short of our goal, we raised enough money to make and send out all our contributor perks and keep The Gutter going until this June.
Now we hope to rise from the ashes as Gutter-A-Go-Go Raids Again!
**What horrors happen when someone edits in a bunch of softcore spots to a Santo film? FourDK takes the plunge with El Vampiro y El Sexo!
**3 Guys step on El Ultimo Elvis‘s blue suede shoes!
**Blueprint: Review deals with a Warrioress!
**Monster Island Resort Podcast #102: Horror, Sexuality, Body Fluids, and Rotting Flesh with Thanatomorphose director Éric Falardeau
**Cinematic Catharsis does battle with The Road Warrior
**Pre-Code wonders if The Constant Woman is really so constant!
**TrashFilmGuru beams into Trekkies!
**The Film Fiend goes for 12 Rounds 2 – Reloaded
**What do you do when you run out of names to call new beetle species? Grab names from the phone book!
**Check out some 3D Latte Art!
**American International Pictures will produce a whole bunch of remakes. This is like the third time they’ve tried something like this. Maybe they’ll actually have a good film this time. Maybe.
**Indian actress Jiah Khan committed suicide recently, her mother has since posted a letter by her that shows some of the abuses of the entertainment industry.
**Jim Patterson: Black Soviet Icon’s Lonely American Sojourn
**Why Do So Many Father-Daughter Movies = Feisty Kid + Bumbling Dad?
**Christina Ricci will play Lizzie Borden in a new Lifetime movie that seems tailor made to enforce the stereotype of what Lifetime movies are about.
**BBC is getting a Muppet game show!
**Far-Right Extremists Chased Through London by Women Dressed as Badgers
**Japanese science fiction of the 1930s.
**The Gee’s Bend series of dime novel occult detective stories
**“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley
**Find out about rare diseases meeting efforts to cure them with The Girl Who Turned to Bone
**Weird Wheels cards!!! And let’s not forget the Odd Rods!
**A cool article about Chinese military fantasy novels!
Alligator Alley is Ragin Cajun Redneck Gators, still SyFy bound
From two feuding Cajun families, college grad LACY DOUCETTE and DATHAN ROBICHAUD have to keep their love affair secret, but when Dathan’s dad’s discarded “blue moonshine” results in mutated, gigantic, predatory gators, both families have to work together to get rid of the gators. Unfortunately, the truce doesn’t last long, and the toxic moonshine causes anyone bit by a gator to actually turn into one…
Awesome director Griff Furst helms this one, with Victor Webster, Christopher Berry, and Jordan Hinson starring. DreadCentral has a trailer which is linked below.
Of further note, a film called Snakehead Swamp is listed on Active Entertainment’s site with no further information. Hmmm….
via DreadCentral
Set stop-motion sail with Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage!
This being a low-budget homage, much of the work is done with greenscreen shots of various quality and stop motion puppets also of various quality. I don’t expect things to be Hollywood blockbuster, I just want a fun story and effort by the filmmakers. And Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage looks like it will be fun, and with classy Patrick Stewart narrator.
Follow Sinbad as he embarks on his fifth voyage to save Princess Parisa from an evil sorcerer. The film is inspired by the epic stop-motion animation films of yesteryear. The talented artists involved include Sir Patrick Stewart (X-Men, X-Men 2, Dune, Star Trek), and “Sinbad” is portrayed by up-and-coming Persian-American actor Shahin Sean Solimon (Djinn). When the Sultan’s first born is taken by an evil sorcerer, Sinbad is tasked with traveling to a desert of magic and creatures to save her.
via DreadCentral
Alongside Night is the scrawny Libertarian vs. The Man movie YOU demanded!
Alongside Night features the usual Libertarian dystopian features such as guns, persecution against people who horde gold, FEMA troops, guns, gigantic government conspiracies to cover up economic ideas no one cares about, guns, and guns. Don’t worry, there are TWO cast members from Star Trek: Voyager – Harry Kim and Tuvok – and also Kevin Sorbo as the teen hero’s maybe not really dead dad. Let’s not forget Jake Busey as Not Bill Clinton.
I will say that “Alongside Night” song is pretty catchy. But can they compete with that totally not terrible looking CGI Libertarian movie Silver Circle?
Also Crytohippie Darknet. Yep.
The story is set in United States experiencing economic collapse, with inflation increasing rapidly and the government struggling to keep its power. Trading in foreign currency has become illegal and many shops are subject to rationing. As a result there is a black market for most goods. The setting represents the world as Samuel Edward Konkin III conceived it would be just prior to a successful agorist revolution.
The story begins with Elliot Vreeland, son of Nobel Laureate economist Dr Martin Vreeland (an economist of the Austrian school) hearing of his father’s apparent death and being rushed home from school. He discovers quickly that the death is fake, a plot concocted by his father (after receiving a tip-off) to escape arrest by the FBI who are collecting “radicals” accused by the government of worsening the economic crisis.
Eliot is sent by his father to collect some gold coins that had been stored in a safe location, for use as currency during the families intended escape. However, upon his return Eliot finds his family to be missing. Not long afterward, FBI agents enter the house searching for Eliot who manages to escape.
Eliot’s escape results in him becoming acquainted with the Revolutionary Agorist Cadre, an organisation plotting the end of the US government by means of counter-economics. The cadre has grown strong during the years of its existence, and has its own militia. Eliot enlists the help of the Cadre, and meets Lorimer, a girl similarly hiding from the law.
As the novel progresses, government stability weakens still further, and they begin tight controls of communication, travel and trade, however they fail to avert economic collapse, causing the private sector (unions, individuals, syndicates and many others) to take control of the old infrastructure.