Exclusives

The Pneumatic Transit “The Meketrex Supplicant” Video Premiere [Exclusive]

Published

8 years ago

November 2, 2015

We’ve teamed up with Chicago progressive jazz band The Pneumatic Transit to bring you the exclusive music video premiere for “The Meketrex Supplicant”, which comes from their brand new album Concerto for Double Moon. The video mixes antiqued performance footage with clips from classic horror films, ones that date back to the very early 20th century. It’s a smorgasbord of unsettling and surreal imagery that comes and goes with such velocity that it’s quite disorienting, which is only furthered by the music itself. It’s a wild ride, I gotta tell you!

The band explains why the video is so “horrific”, telling BD:

While we were tracking for the record there was always a ‘muted’ horror film playing in the background, ranging from Ti West’s “House of the Devil” to Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” In turn, this undoubtedly influenced individual performances during improvisations. Furthermore, specific scenes in these films acted as models for musical timbre (use of effect units) and phrasing with the direct intention of decreasing ‘by rote’ performances.

Concerto for Double Moon can be picked up via Bandcamp.

Director Hallam Drury explains:

[Guitarist] Jeff Zampillo had some thematic ideas for the clip which helped steer the project initially. But rather than shoot the footage myself, I went hunting for really old films. I ended up finding the perfect fit – a collection of movies by two filmmakers called Segundo de Chomon and Georges Melies (kindly curated by Archive.org). Both de Chomon and Melies were filmmakers and illusionists working at the end of the 19th Century and in the first part of the 20th. I just loved the way they explored the phantasmagorical, using what must have been extremely creative film techniques for their time. Some of the shots in this clip date back to 1896 and it was a lot of fun watching these classic films that were the first incarnations of the horror and fantasy film genres. (Melies is credited as making the first ever horror film, in 1896).

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Exclusives

Daniel Roebuck Has Joined the Cast of ‘Terrifier 3’! [Exclusive]

Published

2 weeks ago

April 12, 2024

Alex DiVincenzo

Daniel Roebuck has been cast as Santa Claus in Terrifier 3, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report.

Writer-director Damien Leone is currently wrapping production on the highly-anticipated sequel, in which Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.

“I’ve been holding this secret for a long time!” Roebuck tells Bloody Disgusting. “I’ve been really excited about it. I’m actually entering into the movies that I watch. It’s extraordinary. This is Terrifier bigger, badder, best.”

Roebuck appears in Terrifier 3 alongside returning cast members David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliot Fullam, and AEW superstar Chris Jericho.

No stranger to iconic horror properties, Roebuck has squared off against Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, played The Count in Zombie’s The Munsters, succumbed to The Tall Man’s sphere in Phantasm: Ravager, and investigated death in Final Destination.

A distinguished character actor with over 250 credits, Roebuck has also appeared in The Devil’s Rejects, 3 from Hell, Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End, The Fugitive, Lost, Agent Cody Banks, and The Man in the High Castle. Incidentally, he’s also playing Santa in the family drama Saint Nick of Bethlehem, due out later this year.

Terrifier 3 will be released in theaters nationwide later this year via Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting in conjunction with our partner on Terrifier 2, Iconic Events Releasing.

Terrifier 3 comes courtesy of Dark Age Cinema Productions. Phil Falcone Produces with Lisa Falcone acting as Executive Producer. Co-producers include Mike Leavy, Jason Leavy, George Steuber, and Steve Della Salla. Brad Miska, Brandon Hill, and Erick Opeka Executive Produce for Cineverse. Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor also Executive Produce.