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Happy Halloween!

10/31/2020

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Boo!

Did we scare you? We stuffed this month pretty full of Halloween themed content. Or at least as much as we could given the circumstances. Here's a full list of what has dropped and links to see them.
  • NIGHTMARE DRIVE (Our newest short film!)
    • Bonus Features for NIGHTMARE DRIVE! Including an Outtake Reel and Behind the Scenes Documentary!
  • IC HALLOWEEN PARTY (An abridged version of the stream without the short films is now available)
  • The new HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 4 of our podcast is available to listen to. David Young and I talk about the 90's Dracula and Frankenstein films.
  • We also released several new IC TRIES episodes centered around various Halloween themed treats.

Hope everyone has had a Happy Halloween! Big news coming next month!
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Catch Up & Coming Attractions: October & November

10/18/2020

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Fall generally ends up being our busiest time of year for one reason or another. No exception this year. A lot has happened. To the point where we've been making posts almost every day. I'll try to break it down here as simply as possible.

NIGHTMARE DRIVE
Our newest short has started it's festival run. I said before that I didn't expect much. We got two selections so far out of the very few festivals we submitted to. Very proud of it. The most important screening to us was definitely the premiere back on the 12th. We played at the Starlite Drive-In here in town (both NIGHTMARE DRIVE & ANOTHER DAY COLDER). We went to the first showing and had an awesome time. There was also an encore presentation on the 17th. As we've said before, big thanks to Leif Jonker for making that happen. We also had a screening in Columbus, OH on the 15th as a part of the S.O.S. Horror Film Festival.
Currently, there are two other events related to this film. The first is the IC HALLOWEEN PARTY. This will function as the online premiere of NIGHTMARE DRIVE, but will also feature a couple of our other shorts along with special segments we've programmed where the cast and crew play horror trivia and do a special IC TRIES. This is a pre-shot show, but we will be streaming it on the IC Facebook page on October 24th. After that, the film will be available here on our website.
Speaking of IC TRIES, we prepared several new Halloween themed episodes to go with the release of NIGHTMARE DRIVE. There will be a new episode every Monday in October.
Lastly, we have a screening on the morning of October 25th in Austin, TX as a part of the Ethereal Horror Film Festival. We've also been nominated for "Best Animated Film". I'm sure it will be a great time. The jury is still out on a couple other festivals, but those were all delayed until next year, so who knows what will happen.
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Beth Christine & Scott Reacher at the Starlite Drive-In for Scary Movie Mondays
LEFT HOOK
This year has been rough on LEFT HOOK. We had big plans, but they had to be ever changing to compete with all the twists and turns. All-in-all, it hasn't had the worst run. It hasn't had an ideal run! But not the worst run. We've garnered several nominations and even a few awards along the way. Recently, the film was put on Vimeo OnDemand (to buy or rent) and Troma Now (to stream). We're excited to expand the platforms for the film and hope to have more in the future. You can see all your options on the LEFT HOOK page.
But, the biggest piece of news for local fans and film lovers, we're actually going to have a screening. On November 6th, LEFT HOOK will play at the MTH Theater in Kansas City, MO as a special presentation by First Friday Film Festival. A huge thanks to Matthew Dunehoo for setting this up. Honestly, this is the cherry on top for me, I've been dying for a festival experience with this one and I'm finally going to get it. Plenty of precautions are being taken and I feel really good about it, you can read up about the event HERE. 

TWITCH THURSDAYS
We've recently introduced something new that hopefully some of you will be interested in. We've launched an IC Twitch channel. This is something a few members of the team have been wanting to do for a while, but it always felt like it should be separated from all of our more serious work. Twitch seems like the best place to do this. As of right now, the goal is to stream weekly on Thursdays with a rotating cast of hosts. We've been playing around with it for a couple weeks now and seem to be getting the hang of it. We also have archives of streams up on our Miscellaneous Stream page, for when they roll off of Twitch. We're looking forward to seeing what fun we can have on here.

I'm sure more great news will be rolling out soon. But for now, that's all I've got. Catch you next time!

​-Tyler
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