As a Halloween shout out to everyone out there, I’d like to take a moment to tell you all that THE VESSEL OF TERROR – a 128 page graphic novel from Markosia Enterprises written by Magnus Aspli with art and lettering by Dave Acosta, Color by Jeremy P. Roberts and Goran Kostadinoski, and script editing by Alex De-Gruchy – is pretty nifty-neat in that slithery, deep sea brine way that, when it works right, is really good at turning the stomach…
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This morning I woke up to find this e-mail in my inbox. This guy’s film looks truly kick-ass, and it would be a shame for it to never see the light of day just because the economy’s in the crapper…
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Howdy doody friends and neighbors!
Frequent contributor and friend of NightmaRevue Michael Mitchell has a nice lil’ event at this year’s Festival Of Fear, and he’d like to invite everyone out there to come, say hi, and get a nice case of the heebie-jeebies…
Hi all!
I just dropped off a new article on Midnight Syndicate’s new digi-platter over at Fangoria’s website, and you can check ‘er out HERE…
http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5357:midnight-syndicate-carnival-arcane-cd-review&catid=74:musick-reviews&Itemid=199
I`m deep in the trenches of the cellulloid jungle that is FanTasia 2011, with no excape in sight. My only option for survival is limited to wading it out, chest deep, in these cool, dark screening pools where hopefully, one day, I will see the light and be pulled to a safe warm place. More realistically though, since I`m stuck here for a while, how about a quick run down of a few select titles that I managed to see during week 1 of the fest? In no particular order…
by JO SATANA
Ah, we are but only approaching the end of week one here and I`ve already got bloody skidmarks on my shorts and open sores on my ass from countless hours of sitting alone with dem flickering lights. Thank god for all the beautiful women that seem to be flocking here recently, as being in the dark with sweaty fanboys just isn’t doing it for me no more…
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Greetings Nightmarians, it’s good to see you.
Allow me a moment or two to dust off this grimy surface that I set my notes on top of in Ye ol’ NightaRevue crawlspace. Let me just get my tattered rag here….
Well patient reader, I’m wiping away layer upon layer of tough grease here like it’s some sort of personal hygiene exercise and I have to admit, I’m not getting anywhere close to whatever the hell is supposed to be under here. How did we let things get this bad, there’s at least 15 years worth of detritus piled up here. I’m practically gagging on the smell. Geez man, fifteen years? how’s that even possible, NightmaRevue hasn’t been around for more than like 3 or 4 tops? From what I can remember though, here is supposed to lie the program guide that I got at my very first FanTasia festival… fuck that explains it. I believe I’m currently sitting in all the dead skin I shed and all the bodily fluids that got spent onto countless theatre seats, sitting through hours of celluloid atrocities and curiosities. FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS? As I weigh the ramifications of spoiled summers, lost libido and broken social contacts, how about you just sit back and relax and peruse the rundown of FanTasia opening weekend 2011 that I prepared for ya. Yes, it’s back baby, that slumbering beast of a home wrecker, that one yearly event that makes people regret knowing you, FanTasia is back in Montreal, and it’s fifteen years old. Almost four weeks long, one hundred and thirty films wide. One liver. I might not make it back kids, but I’ve been saying this for years. Some of you are probably even counting on it! Let’s begin shall we? Read all »
While less than two weeks away from announcing the full line-up of its 15th edition, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed a first wave of titles and happenings. The full 130-feature array of titles will be announced at our press conference on July 7…
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You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream “Rip Off” (In More Ways Than One)
by Michael Mitchell
The first five minutes of Scream 4 are thrilling for reasons almost beyond measure. There’s a false start that is absolutely inspired writing, the director, Wes Craven, appears to be at the very top of his—or anyone’s—game, and there is, once again, the astonishing cinematography of Peter Denning (who did the first three films). And then, one minute later, with one twist too many, the entire movie deflates and never manages to rise for air again. It’s as if its writer, Kevin Williamson, was seized with a brilliant idea but threw it away for a lack of confidence that he could follow it to the end. Pity. It was a brilliant idea, and it would have opened to storyline up to innumerable new possibilities, but, instead, we get something that’s more than just conventional and tired, we get something that’s also uncomfortably . . . dirty.
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