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Witness The Unveiling Of ‘Nightmares Unhinged’ (Exclusive)
Coming on September 8th, Hex Publishers will be releasing its first horror anthology, Nightmares Unhinged. The 280-page book features 20 stories from award winning authors and will be available in print and e-book versions. Pre-orders are open and can be purchased through the official Hex Publishers website.
The synopsis for Nightmares Unhinged reads:
Nightmares come in many forms. Some rend the veil of sleep with heart-stopping madness. Others defy sanity to leave a helpless corner of your mind twitching for release. Sometimes, hours after waking, a nightmare drifts across your memory, tainting your day with wisps of discomfort. ‘Nightmares Unhinged’ reveals horror in all its mutable forms—abject to absurd—through twenty tales of terror.
We’ve scored an exclusive firsthand look at this upcoming anthology in the form of a 140-second trailer that features original music by Otto Cate.
Nightmares Unhinged features 20 tales of dark and twisted fiction written by a roster of award-winning and bestselling authors that reads like a who’s who of speculative fiction. Contributors include:
· Bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones;
· Hugo Award winner Jason Heller (Goosebumps);
· Colorado Book Award winner Warren Hammond;
· New York Times bestseller Keith Ferrell;
· Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Rasnic Tem;
· Nebula Award winner Edward Bryant;
· Bestselling author of the Felix Gomez Vampire Series, Mario Acevedo
· Bestselling author of The Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Jeanne C. Stein;
· New York Times bestseller Steve Alten, author of MEG, wrote the book’s foreword; and
· USA Best Book Award winner, Joshua Viola (author of Celldweller’s Blackstar and the multiple award-winning debut novel, The Bane of Yoto) is editing the book.
Nightmares Unhinged is dedicated to Bram Stoker Award-winning author Melanie Tem, who was scheduled to contribute a story to the anthology. Sadly, she passed away following a long battle with cancer before doing so. To honor her memory, a percentage of books sales will be donated to Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance.
Out today in select theaters and on digital platforms is heartfelt and playful documentary Mockbuster, which sees a director cold call a studio and ask to helm a lost-world dinosaur epic.
Inexplicably, they say yes.
Our exclusive clip below highlights both the comedic nature of this bizarre scenario as well as the pressures of shooting dino feature The Land That Time Forgot in a mere six days, with no real feature experience.
A dino attack scene causes friction on set in this scene.
In the documentary, “A struggling filmmaker’s opportunity collides with chaos and compromise when Sharknado’s notorious studio, The Asylum, invites him to direct a ‘mockbuster.’ With six days, a micro budget, and mounting pressure, Mockbuster is a comedic, behind-the-scenes documentary exploring the balance between low-budget filmmaking and creative ambition.”
More than just an inside look at filmmaking via low-budget film studio The Asylum, it doubles as one man’s pursuit of his dreams to charming, humorous effect.
“Mockbuster is a documentary about my own journey, but it’s also a love letter to one of the last grindhouses still functioning in Hollywood. We get to meet the characters and creators of some of the most infamous (and most hated) B-movies of the last few decades. People who make movies purely for profit – no pretension, no artistry, just monsters, C-listers, and chaos. A film that both genre fans and cinephiles can enjoy. But Mockbuster isn’t just about filmmaking, it’s about losing sight of your dreams, and reclaiming them in your own twisted way,” Director Anthony Frith said in a statement.
From Executive Producer and famed documentarian David Farrier, Mockbuster opens in select theaters and on digital platforms beginning July 10.
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