The Official SAW Escape Revamps for Halloween 2024 with New Twists, Thrilling Surprises, and an Unique Encounter for SAW Superfans: “Egan Escape Productions is happy to announce thrilling new upgrades to The Official SAW Escape simply in time for Halloween 2024, together with contemporary video games and immersive new content material. Jason Egan just lately invited a gaggle of devoted SAW followers to expertise the most recent enhancements, however he had a stunning twist in retailer for them. Whereas exploring the notorious SAW rest room, the followers have been shocked when Shawnee Smith, the actress who performs “Amanda Younger” within the SAW movies, dramatically unmasked herself from behind the enduring Pig Masks, giving superfans the shock of a lifetime.
This thrilling new content material throughout the escape, which options Shawnee Smith as “Amanda”, is a part of a broader revamp that features heightened gameplay, new puzzles, extra interactors to extend the immersion, and atmospheric outside results that create an exhilarating ambiance from the second friends arrive at The Official SAW Escape.
Ranked as one of many high escape rooms within the nation, The Official SAW Escape brings the terrifying world of SAW to life with 13 intricately themed rooms. Seven of those rooms problem friends to match wits with Jigsaw, the Grasp of Video games in SAW, fixing puzzles to flee earlier than time runs out. Now, with the addition of Shawnee Smith’s character “Amanda”, the expertise is taken to an entire new stage, giving followers the possibility to come back face-to-face with one of many franchise’s most memorable characters.
“We offer one of many largest, most immersive escape experiences on the earth,” stated Jason Egan, producer of The Official SAW Escape. “From the second you step onto the property, you’re not simply visiting an escape room—you’re getting into a complete facility that makes you’re feeling such as you’ve entered the world of SAW. And with Shawnee Smith as “Amanda”, the expertise turns into much more thrilling and genuine for our friends.”
Jason Egan, identified for creating immersive sights worldwide, continues to supply participating experiences in Southern Nevada with The Official SAW Escape and different common sights akin to ESCAPE BLAIR WITCH (primarily based on Lionsgate’s The Blair Witch Challenge) and ESCAPE IT, which immerses friends on the earth of Stephen King’s IT.”
Picture Credit score: Ryan Valdez
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Blood Saga: Dissecting the Cult Movie Repo! The Basic Opera:“On November 26, 2024, 1984 Publishing will launch Blood Saga: Dissecting the Cult Movie Repo! The Genetic Opera by writer Staci Layne Wilson. Blood Saga gives an unparalleled have a look at the cult basic that merged sci-fi, horror, and rock opera.
Celebrated author Staci Layne Wilson goes behind the scenes into the darkish and dazzling world of Repo! The Genetic Opera like by no means earlier than, revealing the event and making of the film, its instant aftermath, and the increasing fandom since its debut. This hardbound Repo! compendium contains interviews with a lot of the solid and crew, sixteen pages of manufacturing and promotional photographs, and takes readers to on-set experiences, premieres, and Repo! fan occasions. Wilson’s interviews embody director Darren Lynn Bousman (Noticed II to IV, 2021’s Spiral: From the Guide of Noticed), screenwriter Darren Smith, and present and historic interviews with solid members Paris Hilton, Sarah Brightman, Alexa Vera, Invoice Moseley, Ogre (of Skinny Pet), and extra.
When the movie debuted in 2008, it was steadily disregarded by movie reviewers. The New York Instances, for instance, stated that “Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of a number of Noticed sequels, has devised an excruciating new torture with Repo! The Genetic Opera.”
However followers noticed one thing utterly completely different. The movie’s distinctive mix of rocky opera, physique horror, black comedy, and societal commentary was seemingly forward of its time. Repo! The Genetic Opera is now mentioned greater than when it was initially launched, and continues to resonate in the identical sample as the unique 1975 basic midnight musical-comedy-horror movie The Rocky Horror Image Present.
Wilson: “I by no means received into The Rocky Horror Image Present phenomenon, so for me, Repo! was my first real-time expertise with a loyal neighborhood of followers who have been affected by a movie as a collective soul. From that first day on the set in Toronto, Canada, as a member of the press, I knew that Repo! was one thing particular and wholly distinctive. There’s not solely the wonderful solid and unimaginable songs, however the enthusiasm and keenness of the filmmakers was infectious (pun meant).”
The guide’s packaging is designed by Hagcult, who beforehand labored with 1984 Publishing on Clark Collis’ acclaimed You’re Bought Crimson on You: How Shaun of the Lifeless Got here to Life, plus on paintings for officially-licensed Halloween and Vampira merchandise.
Pre-orders for the guide might be discovered at 1984 Publishing, plus signed copies can be found at Los Angeles-based Darkish Delicacies.
The guide will moreover be accessible at native bookstores, Amazon and Barnes & Noble within the US, Amazon within the UK and Canada, and extra. Wholesale inquiries might be made to Consortium, Ingram (UK and US), PGC (Canada), and Baker & Taylor.”
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The Wayans Brothers Reunite with Miramax to Deliver Again SCARY MOVIE for Paramount Footage: “Scary Film, the comedy franchise that parodied horror films like Scream and I Know What You Did Final Summer season, can be rebooted. The Wayans brothers are reuniting for the primary time in 18 years to write down an all new, unique script for the restart of the franchise. The Scary Film movie franchise was developed by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Keenen Ivory Wayans. Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote and directed the primary two movies. Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans wrote and starred within the first two movies. This would be the sixth movie within the franchise.
The Wayans brothers, alongside Rick Alvarez, can be writing and producing this movie. Scary Film can be launched in theaters and begins capturing in 2025. Miramax is the studio behind the franchise and Paramount Footage is releasing worldwide. Becky Sloviter is overseeing for Miramax. Scary Film is a part of Paramount Footage’ first look cope with Miramax.”
Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Stated: “We couldn’t be extra excited to be part of the brand new SCARY MOVIE and work with one another once more. It is a franchise we created greater than 20 years in the past. We keep in mind folks laughing within the aisles and hope to see that occur once more. We stay up for working with Jonathan Glickman and his crew on the new Miramax to carry these laughs to theaters, the place they belong. It’s a double reunion.”
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Seth Gilliam of The Strolling Lifeless to Star within the World Premiere of Adam Szymkowicz’s THE SEX WRITER: “When a household tragedy happens, a author returns to her hometown within the World Premiere of Adam Szymkowicz’s new play The Intercourse Author. The restricted run performs October 30 – November 17 at The Gene Frankel Theatre in NoHo. The Intercourse Author is directed by Skinny Duke’s Founding Inventive Director Philip Cruise, and options Seth Gilliam who’s well-known to tv audiences for his work on The Wire and The Strolling Lifeless.
Skinny Duke and SparkPlug Productions beforehand labored with Szymkowicz on the award-winning play Clown Bar 2 at NYC Fringe Pageant final Spring. Clown Bar 2 received 4 awards together with a 2024 Viewers Alternative Fringe Award.
Jane’s father, an “vital” author has simply died by suicide and Jane goes dwelling to her small city to cope with the small print of loss of life. Jane is a professor and spicy romance author and as she meets new prospects and outdated loves, she narrates all her sexual longings. She struggles to cope with the grief from her father’s loss of life and the sensation that he abandoned her a very long time in the past.
The solid options David Arthur Bachrach (As You Like It/Frog & Peach), Olivia Baseman (The Struggle of Woo), Philip Cruise (Remaining Boarding Name/WTP/Ma-Yi Theatre Firm), Tammi Cubilette (Home of Buggin’), Sionne Elise (The Struggle of Woo), Callie Fabac (Clown Bar 2), Seth Gilliam (The Wire/The Strolling Lifeless), Jim Hawkins (Clown Bar 2), Christopher Lee (Clown Bar 2), Edward Miller (Final Bar on the Finish of the World), and Jack Morrill (Stroll Up Theatre Collective).
The inventive and manufacturing crew contains Holly Pocket McCaffrey (costume design), PJ Mapother (lighting and sound design), and Tommy Pegan (stage administration). Produced by Skinny Duke Productions in affiliation with SparkPlug Productions, with Philip Cruise, Seth Gilliam, Christopher Lee, and Edward Miller.
The Intercourse Author runs October 30 – November 17 with performances Wednesday – Sunday at 8pm, and Sunday’s at 3pm (no efficiency on Thursday, October 31). Operating time: 75 minutes. The Gene Frankel Theatre is positioned at 24 Bond Road (Between Lafayette & Bowery), New York, NY 10012. Subways: 6 to Bleecker Road, B/D/F/M to Broadway/Lafayette. Tickets are $35.”
