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Insane-Looking Cosmic Opera ‘Blood Machines’ Coming to Shudder in May [Trailer]
We got our first glimpse of Seth Ickerman‘s “cosmic opera” Blood Machines with a trailer back in September that blew our minds wide open, and the final trailer has now arrived.
Additionally, we’ve learned that the visionary madness will be unleashed onto Shudder on May 21st. The absolutely wild-looking film features a score by Carpenter Brut (buy it now!).
“The film follows two space hunters tracking down a machine trying to free itself. After taking it down, they witness a mystical phenomenon: the ghost of a young woman pulls itself out of the carcass, as if the spaceship had a soul…”
“Trying to understand its nature, they start chasing the woman through space…”
The indie film, which was funded through Kickstarter and has been in the works for a few years now, features more than 500 VFX shots and showcases the work of 7 CG companies.
Among the ambitious project’s cast, Anders Heinrichsen is Vascan and Elisa Lasowski is Corey, while Christian Erickson and Natasha Cashman take the roles of Lago and Bald.
Blood Machines is 50-minutes in total, and will stream in 3 episodes on Shudder.
Check out the final trailer below!
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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