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The VHS Art of Ryohei Miyaji

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Each country has it’s own preferred style of art attached to movies.  While the West dumb down films to appeal to impulse buys from big store shoppers, simplifying the cover to cliched clip art, the East ramp things up with breakneck visuals of eye popping intensity.  I first heard of Ryohei Miyaji after happening up the Manborg / Father’s Day – Astron-6 Troma release in Japan.  With Uncle Lloyd heading to Japan for the release a design was circulating promoting the event & movies being shown.  Behold.

After friending the artist on Facebook my newsfeed would be occasionally interrupted by his epicness & filling me with the desire to book a flight over to his part of the world to worship at the alter of VHS.  Take a look at some of his other works & tell me you wouldn’t want to see these on a shelf in a store or displayed in a movie theatre.

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‘Alien Hunt’ – It’s an ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ Mockbuster Rolled into One! [Trailer]

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While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.

This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.

You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!

In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?

“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.

“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”

Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.

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