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BD Playlist: Bree Vol. 2
Frog Eyes – Tears Of The Valedictorian
This song. THIS SONG. You’ve all had an experience with music in which you never wanted it to end because you knew you would never feel that high again, yea? That’s this song for me. You will never feel as good as you do the first time you listen to “Bushels.” It’s pretty unassuming at first. But when that piano riff starts about 15 seconds in, good luck climbing out of the deep, emotional whirlpool you just fell into. Carey Mercer will wrap his trembling voice around your heart and break it, over and over again in the course of 9 minutes. Like, “Emily” from my first BD Playlist, “Bushels” touches on a wide variety of emotions: dark ones, manic ones, uplifting ones, hopeful ones. The instrumentals are all over the place and they are utterly relentless. But they fit tight, like a world-weary puzzle, a puzzle that says: I’ve seen some shit. And as with most every Frog Eyes’ song, there’s an astute understanding of its self-importance. It’s a very self-referential song, ending on the words, “I was a singer, and I sang in your home.” Which is oddly frightening because for a second you think, “Whoa! How did you know?” And that’s the precise moment you realize you’ve been sucked in and Mercer owns you.
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‘The Space Between’ Exclusive Teaser Trailer – Damian Maffei Stars in Indie Liminal Horror Movie
Liminal horror is all the rage right now in the wake of A24’s Backrooms dominating the box office, and up next from the sub-genre is the indie film The Space Between.
We recently told you that The Space Between had wrapped production inside an operational Midwestern mall, and now we’re exclusively debuting the teaser trailer today.
Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey At Night, Wrong Turn, Haunt) stars in The Space Between. Watch the teaser trailer below, and also find the official poster underneath.
Maffei plays Rick, an overnight security guard working inside a once-bustling shopping mall after closing. While quietly carrying the grief of losing his daughter, Rick clings to the structure of his nightly routine as a form of stability. Over the course of a single shift, that routine begins to fracture as something unseen retraces his every step.
Kate Kiddo (Black Eyed Susan, The Events Surrounding a Peeping Tom) co-stars in the liminal horror movie as Dispatch, Rick’s only point of contact during the night. She is a calm and steady voice guiding him through his rounds as the system he relies on begins to break down.
Production took place inside an operational Midwestern mall, utilizing real locations after hours to ground the film’s surveillance-driven psychological horror and liminal atmosphere. Built through a lean independent model, the production focused on performance, practical environments, and atmosphere.
Filmmakers were granted unlimited access to more than 96,000 square feet of retail, corridor, and back-of-house space for critical sequences, allowing the production to capture the scale, emptiness, and unsettling realism of a functioning mall after dark.
Writer/director Joshua Garity tells Bloody Disgusting, “The original image that helped define the internet’s idea of liminal horror was traced back to Wisconsin, and that matters because those are the kinds of spaces I grew up in. They were once the heartbeat of a community, but many of them have slowly eroded into something more unnerving. Half-empty malls that still echo with laughter, if you listen closely and strip away the fresh coats of paint. The Space Between comes from that same Midwestern familiarity. It’s not about recreating Backrooms, but about exploring why these spaces stay with you: the absence, the repetition, and the feeling that a place you know is somehow watching you back.”
The Space Between is targeting a Fall 2026 release. Stay tuned for updates.
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