The Beast of Bottomless Lake is a monster film about the Okanagan Lake monster Ogopogo, a creature I don’t think has had a movie about. (everyone keeps doing the Loch Ness Monster, despite a gold mine of local monsters to choose from) Provost Pictures is creating this picture. It looks like they will be intersplicing interviews with “experts” in between the action, which sounds pretty neat.

Official Site (with stills)

No pictures of the monster, sadly…

Synopsis:

Dr. Paul Moran, Cryptozoologist at the University of British Columbia, has very little left to lose. His program is losing its funding, and his tenure is about to be denied. In a last-ditch effort to save his career, Moran heads to Kelowna, a city on the shore of Lake Okanagan which has put a $2 million bounty for proof positive that the legendary Okanagan Lake serpent, the Ogopogo, exists. His mis-matched team includes: his research assistant, Sondra Blackburn; Professor of Conspiracy theory, Dr. Leslie Morgenstern; Neville Bernard Vincent St. John Honey III, a technician on loan from the Royal Commission on the Loch Ness Monster; and physicist with a secret, Stewart Murphy. Tagging along for the ride is film-student Ernie McKellar and his cameraman, documenting the teams’ not-so-glorious moments.

The trip is a disaster–denied access to a luxury resort, they end up in Paul’s loopy parent’s basement, lose an expensive prototype, high-tech device on the first day, share their research vehicle with a wedding party, and get arrested. With every turn, they get further from their goal, and closer to a breakdown.
The team is ripped apart.

Broken and defeated, Paul has one last, desperate chance.
Will he be able to defeat the Beast within?

Thanks to Avery

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Nigeria currently is producing hundreds of films a year. So of course some of these films will be wacky genre films! Thus we get Masoyiyata, which is basically Titanic set Nollywood style! I have no clue where to get this movie, but I want it. Bad.

People my age were enthralled when the V miniseries aired years ago on TV. It was the talk of the playground, lizards hidden under human skin. The Nazi occupation allegories flew right over our heads, we just liked the lizards, rat eating, people eating, and fake skin (you could make fake skin yourself thanks to a thin coat of elmer’s glue!) V the Final Battle was enough of a conclusion for us (but creator Kenneth Johnson had nothing to do with it or the short-lived tv series) as we were kids, but watching it years later I was amazed by how goofy it was (Star Child – WTF???)

Kenneth Johnson came out with a book earlier in the year that wrapped things up rather nicely.

Now V will be returning, except Kenneth Johnson will have nothing to do with it and new creator Scott Peters will ignore all the allegories! Ummm… okay. Whatever. More info here:

“V,” the 1980s miniseries about alien lizards visiting Earth, will invade primetime once again.

ABC is developing a new adaptation of the franchise — which spawned a second mini and TV spinoff — written by “The 4400” co-creator/exec producer Scott Peters.

“Whenever I mention ‘V’ to anybody, they still have a lot of good memories about the original movie and series,” Peters said. “Everybody has that imagery of their uniforms, or the visitor eating a hamster. It’s a science fiction icon and too good to pass up.”

The original “V” served as an allegory for the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. Peters said he won’t duplicate that concept, except that the new “V” will still focus on what happens when the masses have blind faith in their leaders.

In this case, the new “V” will center on Erica Evans, a Homeland Security agent with an aimless son who’s got problems. When the aliens arrive, her son gloms on to them — causing tension within the family. As in the original “V,” several storylines will unfold simultaneously.

But even without the same storyline, the original “V’s” bones will remain: As in the ’80s version, the show will open with an enormous army of spaceships hovering over the world’s major cities. The visitors say they’ve come to help Earth, but their motives are nefarious (in the original, they wanted to steal the world’s water supply).

Original “V” writer-producer-director Kenneth Johnson recently attempted to revive “V” as “V: The Second Generation” but is not involved in the Peters version.