PCB & Lifeless Meat Companion to Launch Frost Highway through Kickstarter: “PCB Leisure, Keith Arem (Name of Responsibility Efficiency Director), Christopher Shy (Lifeless Area Comedian Artist) – the artistic staff behind Picture Comics’ award successful graphic novel, Ascend, is ready to unveil Frost Highway, set to launch on Kickstarter March 4, 2025. The thriller comedian is finest described as a excessive depth graphic novel that blends apocalyptic horror and suspense, excellent for followers of The Final of Us, A Quiet Place, & Silent Hill.
As a part of the crowdfunded marketing campaign, PCB and Arem are partnering with James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca of Lifeless Meat, a horror centric YouTube channel with over 6.7 million subs, to flesh out Frost Highway’s stretch aim rewards to develop a brand new immersive audio drama, primarily based on the upcoming guide.
“We’re so excited to have the chance to work with Keith, somebody we really feel understands horror in the identical method that we do- a style that encourages danger, rewards creativity, and speaks to our shared fears,” says James and Chelsea. “Horror can be an unimaginable house for collaboration and shared artistic information. We see that ethos echoed right here on this marketing campaign, and in our private experiences with Keith. Making academic alternatives out there by means of this marketing campaign goes to show invaluable to aspiring artists, notably performers- Chelsea has taken voiceover programs by means of PCB and has benefited immensely from them. The private touches and need to offer again to different creatives, coupled with Frost Highway’s killer model and well timed story, are why we’re so extremely honored to be on board.”
As soon as funded, the Frost Highway marketing campaign will formally reveal tiered stretch objectives together with their partnership with Lifeless Meat, to provide an ongoing collection of dramatic episodes immediately from the pages of the guide.
The story of Frost Highway is described as: “A small coastal city is devastated by an invisible contagion. A person awakens from a automotive accident to find he’s considered one of few survivors within the aftermath of a mysterious outbreak that has worn out the small city of Frost Highway. By some means resistant to the lethal waves, he tries to avoid wasting the remaining survivors from themselves, as he desperately struggles to stop the lethal sign from spreading throughout the planet.”
“Frost Highway attracts inspiration from actual occasions impacting our oceans and marine life.” says creator Keith Arem. “I wished to discover the horror and tragedy of those points in a method that resonates on a deeply human stage.“
Throughout this marketing campaign, backers may have the prospect to pledge from a number of tiers, together with digital, print, and immersive entry, together with academic sources and courses from PCB Productions. These academic tiers will supply studying alternatives reminiscent of digital masterclasses, Q&A classes, mentorship alternatives, and in individual occasions at PCB’s Los Angeles amenities and San Diego Comedian Con.
As an added bonus for early supporters, the primary 200 backers to pledge throughout the first 48 hours, will obtain an “Early Chook Bonus” containing unique prints, storyboards, and script excerpts from the guide’s creators.
As well as, the graphic novel will function an all-star forged of Yuri Lowenthal (Spider-man, Naruto), Chris Jai Alex (Transformers, Extraction) and Ed O’Ross (The Hidden, Full Steel Jacket) lending their likeness to the characters in Frost Highway.
The guide marketing campaign is ready to launch on March 4, 2025, with a graduation on April ninth, 2025:
https://www.kickstarter.com/tasks/pcb-entertainment/frost-road-an-apocalyptic-horror-graphic-novel “
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New Trailer for Nyaight of the Residing Cat: “From govt director Takashi Miike, the animated post-apocalyptic comedy collection Nyaight of the Residing Cat will start streaming this July solely on Crunchyroll”
“Run! The Cute Cats Are Right here! In 20XX, the world is dominated by cats. A virus which turns anybody who touches a cat right into a cat has unfold right into a worldwide nyandemic. Cats rub in opposition to folks, turning them into cats. Can humanity battle their urge to pet cats to outlive on this cat-ridden world? The momentously catful comedian is getting a TV anime in 2025!”
- Unique Work: Primarily based on the manga “Night time of the Residing Cat” written by Hawkman and illustrated by Mecha-Roots
- Government Director: Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer; Audition; 13 Assassins)
- Director: Tomohiro Kamitani (MIX MEISEI STORY Season 2)
- Screenplay: Shingo Irie (Orb: On the Actions of the Earth; Golden Kamuy Season 1)
- Character Designer: Takao Maki (Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls)
- Music: Koji Endo (13 Assassins; Audition; the live-action JoJo’s Weird Journey: Diamond Is Unbreakable)
- Animation Studio: OLM (Pokémon; The Apothecary Diaries)
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BLUE SUNSHINE – LSD Horror Traditional Makes its North American Debut on 4K UHD: “On April fifteenth, Synapse Movies will launch Jeff Lieberman’s infamous LSD horror movie Blue Sunshine in a restricted version 4K UHD 3-Disc set.
At a home celebration within the countryside, Frannie Scott (Richard Crystal, Enjoyable With Dick And Jane) is singing when he will get just a little frisky and tries to kiss a good friend’s date. When the good friend pulls him off the lady, he unexpectedly yanks the hair off Frannie’s head. This results in a psychotic outburst from Frannie that turns into fiery mayhem. Frannie chases after partygoer Jerry Zipkin (Zalman King, Purple Sneakers Diaries) and in a coincidence, Jerry is suspected because the killer by the investigating police detectives and goes into hiding whereas he tries to clear his identify.
He quickly discovers that Frannie isn’t the one individual within the space who has gone bald and was a homicidal maniac. Wendy (Ann Cooper, Appears Like Previous Instances), a divorced mom of two, notices her hair falling out and attributes it to the stress of elevating her rambunctious children. Is she going to finish up just like the others? She will get no assist from her ex-husband (Mark Goddard, Curler Boogie, Misplaced In Area), who’s busy working for Congress.
Finally Jerry and his good friend Alicia (Deborah Winters, Tarantula: Lethal Cargo) hyperlink the murderous habits and baldness to a Stanford College experiment within the mid-60s that concerned a model of LSD referred to as Blue Sunshine. Is the hallucinogenic drug answerable for the lethal mayhem all these years later? Who else is a ticking time bomb?
Director Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, Devil’s Little Helper) elevates the horrors of LSD as introduced in government-produced anti-drug movies that declared customers would undergo genetic injury and violent acid flashbacks. Blue Sunshine options appearances from Robert Walden (Audrey Rose, Lou Grant), Invoice Adler (Switchblade Sisters, Van Nuys Blvd.) and Alice Ghostley (Grease, Bewitched).
The bonus supplies for Blue Sunshine embody a Blu-ray (1080p), a remastered CD soundtrack, two audio commentaries that includes director Jeff Lieberman, a brand new introduction to the movie by director Jeff Lieberman, an archival 2003 interview with director Jeff Lieberman, a Lieberman on Lieberman video interview, a Channel Z “Fantasy Movie Competition” interview with Mick Garris (The Stand) and Jeff Lieberman, the Fantasia Movie Competition 4K Premiere Q&A with moderator Michael Gingold and director Jeff Lieberman, anti-drug “scare movies” LSD-25 (1967) and LSD Perception or Madness? (1968), Jeff Lieberman’s first movie The Ringer, theatrical trailers, a nonetheless gallery, a liner notes booklet by Jeff Lieberman, that includes a chapter on the making of Blue Sunshine from his guide Day of the Residing Me: Adventures of a Subversive Cult Filmmaker from the Golden Age, and a fold-out poster.”
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The twenty fifth Annual Boston Underground Movie Competition Returns to Cambridge March nineteenth–twenty third With Unbelievable Line-Up
Of Style-Shattering Movies: “The Boston Underground Movie Competition (BUFF) returns to the Brattle Theatre for its twenty fifth annual celebration of all issues bizarre, depraved, and great, working from March nineteenth–twenty third, 2025. This yr’s program is a high-voltage mixture of hallucinatory horror, transgressive comedy, and unclassifiable style chaos that includes world premieres, competition darlings, deep-cut rediscoveries, and quite a lot of movies that defy well mannered description.
BUFF kicks off with the East Coast Premiere of Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer, starring Nicolas Cage as a person who returns to his childhood seaside solely to seek out himself in a psychological dying match with territorial locals. A sun-drenched descent into insanity, Cage delivers a tour-de-force efficiency that may have audiences gripping their armrests and reconsidering any future surf journeys.
BUFF is past honored to world premiere Alma & The Wolf, the most recent from Michael Patrick Jann (Drop Lifeless Attractive), a slow-burn psychological thriller a couple of troubled cop (Ethan Embry) investigating a vicious wolf assault that rapidly spirals into the uncanny, the unexplainable, and the deeply unsettling. Jann and actor Lukas Jann will likely be in attendance to debate their eerie, Oregon-set thriller.
One other main spotlight: the world premiere of the 4K restoration of Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator for its fortieth anniversary, with horror icon Barbara Crampton in attendance. This landmark screening will showcase the brand-new 4K UHD restoration from Ignite Movies and Eagle Rock Footage.
BUFF’s East Coast Premieres embody Fucktoys, Annapurna Sriram’s 16mm Tarot-fueled hallucinogenic odyssey, with Sriram and actor Sadie Scott in attendance. From Canada, Stefan MacDonald-Labelle’s Head Like a Gap (with MacDonald-Labelle in attendance) delivers existential horror within the type of an ever-growing void that lurks in a basement, ready for somebody—anybody—to note.
Among the many New England Premieres, Yûta Shimotsu’s Finest Needs to All delivers a skin-crawling, slow-burn J-horror the place household, custom, and generational happiness conceal a deeply rotten core. Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister gleefully shreds Cinderella to items, crafting a body-horror fairy story concerning the brutal lengths we go to for magnificence. And Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight plunges a newlywed right into a genre-blending fever dream of misanthropic mayhem, self-destruction, and darkly comedian carnage.
For followers of maximalist sci-fi lunacy, BUFF is thrilled to current the New England Premiere of Yang Li’s Escape from the twenty first Century, the place three teenagers uncover that maturity is a dystopian nightmare after sneezing themselves 20 years into the long run. In the meantime, Alexandre O. Philippe’s docu Chain Reactions (East Coast Premiere) dissects the seismic affect of The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath, that includes insights from Stephen King, Karyn Kusama, and Takashi Miike.
BUFF additionally welcomes the Massachusetts Premiere of Vulcanizadora, Joel Potrykus’ newest descent into existential dread, following two associates on a doomed pilgrimage by means of the Michigan woods. In the meantime, within the New England Premiere of Fréwaka, Aislinn Clarke crafts a haunting portrait of trauma and disorientation, as a nursing pupil’s previous bleeds into her current, warping actuality itself; the primary Irish-language horror movie!
BUFF isn’t simply concerning the new and the subsequent—it additionally honors forgotten, forbidden, and freshly resurrected gems from the previous. This yr, we’re thrilled to current a uncommon repertory screening of Muerte en la Playa (1991), a queer-coded, blood-soaked, telenovelesque Mexican thriller ripe for rediscovery courtesy of the American Style Movie Archive.
And naturally, it wouldn’t be BUFF with out shorts programming that spotlights the most effective in animation, transgressive experiments, darkish comedy, homegrown horror, and genre-inspired music movies. Anticipate boundary-pushing, bite-sized brilliance that may disturb, delight, and probably traumatize in equal measure.
Whether or not you’re right here for the world premieres, the genre-bending madness, or the sheer pleasure of descending into the darkness with fellow weirdos, BUFF 2025 guarantees an unforgettable lineup of movies, particular friends, and late-night delirium.
Be part of us at The Brattle Theatre, March nineteenth–twenty third, for one more spherical of lovely, deranged, and totally unmissable insanity as we have a good time our silver anniversary.
A restricted variety of competition badges can be found now for buy on the Brattle Theatre’s web site.”
Tickets will likely be on sale at www.brattlefilm.org and www.bostonunderground.org
