Trailer for The Primevals looks great

The remix of "The Langoliers" is available on Vimeo for a limited time

I've never read the novella, but the goofy tv miniseries from 1995 was like a parody of Stephen King stories, with Bronson Pinchot from "Perfect Strangers" as an everyman driven homicidal by voices. Aristotelis Maragkos made a remix called "The Timekeepers of Eternity" that I mentioned in 2022, and is now available at Vimeo at least for a limited time:

The original miniseries is at Youtube:

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These "Bite Size Shorts" horror movies to promote Skittles and other candies are great

20 minutes of roughly two-minute horror tales. The mini-movies don't even hint at the candies, but I assume they included bumpers when they aired on television:

To break through the over saturation of all of the candy brands in October, we disrupted the traditional commercial block with four adrenaline-raising two-minute horror films. The films debuted in marquee programs on FOX like American Horror Story and The MLB playoffs.

 
The Mars films, Skittles’ “Floor 9.5”, M & Ms’ “The Road”, Starburst’s “The Replacement”, and Snicker’s “Live Bait” were created by up and coming horror directors. We created the brief for the filmmakers, curated the pitches, developed the scripts and produced the films.

 

Bite Size Horror from 20th Digital Studio on Vimeo.

The moon transit scene from Ad Astra

(Saw part of this scene in my feed today.) I've never made it to the end of the movie, but it has some truly excellent action scenes:

Here's Bill Russell killing Michael Richards in the Miami Vice episode "The Fix"

Cleveland's "Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86" was "both crazier and more tragic than anyone could have imagined"

Here's a lengthy Fox News write-up from last year.

On Sept. 27. 1986, more than 100,000 people filled Public Square in downtown Cleveland for the charitable event.

Balloonfest ’86 was a fundraising event sponsored by the United Way and included [a] legendary balloon artist ... from California.

“The United Way and they’re going to put Cleveland back on the map. They’re gonna have a giant balloon launch,” said FOX 8’s [reporter], who also covered the event.

It took months of planning and thousands of volunteers to inflate the 1.5 million balloons that were to be released. They were held in place by a specially constructed netting structure.

Here's a short documentary by the Atlantic, (appropriately) cut like a found footage horror movie.  It was directed by Nathan Truesdell, art director on "You're Next."

The Backrooms (Found Footage)

Horror movie version of that guy's (now deleted) tweet story about being trapped in an endless series of stairwells and conference halls:

Good audio performance recounting a visit to "Sleep No More"

Alberto Mielgo explains how they made the Watch Dogs Legion animated short film

He says they filmed actors performing the stunts for reference, but not motion capture.

Watch Dogs Legion short film directed by Alberto Mielgo

The preorder for the game is $10 off at the moment.

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Trailer and poster for The Green Knight

"Threshold Kids" (the creepy puppet show from the game Control); "Bright Falls" and "Night Springs" (from Alan Wake)

This is actual Control gameplay:

Slow motion 60fps destruction from my new favorite stress toy, Control. Max settings, RTX on. pic.twitter.com/FEJcgdesQy

— Petri Levälahti (@Berduu) August 27, 2019

And speaking of creepy kid stuff:

There's a Thomas the Tank episode where a stubborn train is punished by being entombed alive forever and it's worse than any horror movie pic.twitter.com/Bn1Y0PTItL

— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) September 28, 2017

Other creepy movies from the Control extended universe:










*Buy Control at Amazon.

"How Feist’s '1234' Turned Into a 'Sesame Street' Blockbuster"

NYT:

Whenever she’s traveling, a breathless parent will stop her for a photo. They say, “Do you mind, my 3-year-old has watched it 7,000 times,” Feist said. “And I say yes, but I always joke: You notice me because you’re a grown-up — the 3-year-olds are really only interested in the puppets. And without fail, the kids are just sort of looking at me like, who is this weird lady in the airport?”

...

“A diction coach was making me pronounce the words so specifically, because she said, ‘Imagine you don’t know how to talk yet, and this is how you learn to count.’

...

“A subplot that was in no way being filmed, was that Telly was crushing out so hard on me. [Laughing] Like, the guy just had Telly nibbling on the tips of his fingers while he stared at me, nervously. And then I’d look, and he’d look away. And if you watch the video, there’s a couple of times where you’ll see Telly facing me, in profile, with this kind of awe. It was going on for, like, eight hours.

Wreaking havoc on a reality show

From the thread:

(6) Throughout the entire production, they had us doing to-camera confessionals, where I created my own B storyline in which I was falling madly in love with contestant Ashley. I refused to talk about anything else. They cut all of it. pic.twitter.com/tBcAbt85Vj

— cole hersch (@ColesTwitt3r) August 27, 2019

Bonus laughs:

practicing!! pic.twitter.com/DMw3jKgwaA

— cole hersch (@ColesTwitt3r) February 25, 2017

followed this man in traffic for a very long time & got none of the answers i wanted pic.twitter.com/Fu3nowACke

— Andrew Michaan (@AndrewMichaan) August 11, 2019

The follow-up interview:



*Buy gold giraffes at Amazon.

Outstanding video about the game Ape Out

By Jacob Geller, who also posted this delight:

Just remembered that years ago I went to a Chuck Palahniuk book signing and for every photo op he asked people if they wanted to be "punching or strangled" pic.twitter.com/uV4Mt7llKC

— Jacob Geller (@yacobg42) April 12, 2019

And speaking of dangerous simians:

Monkey anti-terrorism handout at the station (don't ask - it's wordplay). Terrorist monkey at bottom right says "Oops" on being found out. pic.twitter.com/fGMXODSD9t

— Mulboyne (@Mulboyne) April 13, 2019

The Little Drummer Girl is available from AMC, and is terrific

Directed by Park Chan-Wook.

Speaking of spies:

French official 'suspected of spying for North Korea'

...

a senior civil servant and president of the Franco-Korean Friendship Association

Highlights from the Cynthia Rothrock movie Righting Wrongs

Nike: Juntas Imparables - Just Do It

Dune Dog Montage

"In the 1984 film 'Dune', House Atreides has a pet pug that was not in the book. The dog is present for many key moments, and even leads a charge against Sardaukar legions with Gurney Halleck in tow. After disappearing during the confusion of the fall of House Atreidis the dog reappears at Paul's coronation, having somehow survived the harsh climate of Arrakis."

Trailers for Searching

Getting solid reviews.

And at the official site, the five finalists for a contest to make a short film to be screened before the movie in select theaters.