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Trailer Released for Cosmic Horror Web Series ‘The Unknowable’ from ‘The Den’ Director Zachary Donohue
We here at Bloody Disgusting are huge fans of Zachary Donohue‘s The Den, which is undoubtedly one of the scariest movies to come out of the 2010s. So it brings us great pleasure to announce that the trailer for Donohue’s next project has been released and it’s for a horror web series called The Unknowable, which will be premiering exclusively on Jackalope Studio‘s YouTube Channel on October 25.
The official synopsis reads: In 1948, World War II veteran Thaddeus Wilcox left in the middle of the night from his idyllic San Francisco home with his wife Fanny and her sister Mabel to a remote property in the Mojave Desert known as Silent Creek. Compelled by visions of a strange alien species, The Wilcox family spent the year attempting to make contact — but in that time, they would draw the unwanted attention of other more malevolent and unspeakable forces, becoming the subjects of the most disturbing unsolved mystery the world we live in would never know… until now.
Comprised of 10 episodes, the cosmic horror series interweaves repurposed public domain black and white footage from the first half of the 20th century, alongside heavily filtered footage from the present, to tell the macabre and weirdly creepy story of the Wilcox Family and the unbelievable events that befell them. The surreal story blends elements of true crime documentaries and cosmic sci-fi horror all in service of telling a story that is 100 percent bonkers and fake, but presenting it as a series of real events that happened in a separate reality in the multiverse, adjacent to ours.
With a chilling Rod Serling-esque narration and an atmospheric score in the vein of John Carpenter’s synth-work, The Unknowable is being described as Stranger Things meets the absurdist horror of Mulholland Drive, while being filmed in the style of Chris Marker’s groundbreaking film La Jetée. It’s a show unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before, taking you beyond the present, beyond the past, into another realm seen only in dreams.
See the trailer below:
Of the horror series, director Zach Donohue says, “I wanted to make something for the fans of my first film (The Den), and the growing number of people who like to experience unconventional stories that are completely untethered by studio restrictions and emboldened by the type of creative ingenuity that comes from low budget filmmaking… This was an absolute blast to create because I made it all entirely with friends and people I trust and I hope that spirit shines through and grabs you.”
The Unknowable is the first original series from independent film company, Jackalope Studio. Under the creative direction of Kyle Cooper (screenwriter, The Late Bloomer; Snapchat’s Solve), the company’s growing slate of genre projects provides a one-of-a-kind alternative for audiences seeking bold, unique and visionary entertainment. It’s written, directed, edited and scored by Zach Donohue, and is narrated by prolific voice over actor, Sean Burgos (Disney’s Growing Fangs, The Babysitter: Killer Queen), with real-life husband and wife Chris Voss (Atropa, Last Life) and Ally Voss (Love In Kind) playing Thaddeus & Fanny Wilcox, the mysterious couple the series is set around.
Donohue’s own wife Sarah Eisenberg (iLove) is Mabel, Kimberly Ables Jindra (The Master, The Den) is Agatha Carruthers, Robert Brisco Evans (What Women Want, Black Jesus) is Guntherson the Enigmatic, Garrett Schweighauser (Blindspotting, The Seventh Day) is Devreux E. Mallarme, and Kevin Swanstrom (Atropa, Tricycles) plays the notorious serial killer, Angus Duquette, who goes by the alias The Clown With No Paint on His Face. Produced by Kyle Cooper for Jackalope Studio.
Stream all episodes on the Jackalope Studio YouTube Channel beginning Oct 25. To learn more about Jackalope Studio, please visit https://www.jackalope.studio/
Blade Runner is headed to the small screen in Prime Video’s upcoming Blade Runner 2099, set 50 years after Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, in a world where replicants have emerged on top after an uprising.
Humans are no longer in power.
At the forefront of the new series are stars Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Hunter Schafer (Cuckoo), and EW has shared the first images of their characters.
Yeoh stars as a replicant Blade Runner named Olwen, facing the final days of her life. It’s a twist on the Roy Batty story from the first film; here, that story will be told from the replicant’s perspective.
Opposite her is Schafer as Olwen’s partner, Cora, a human fugitive pretending to be a replicant. Olwen and Cora will be working together to investigate missing rogue replicants.
Blade Runner 2099 comes from Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free, and Amazon Studios. Silka Luisa (“Shining Girls”) is writing, showrunning, and executive producing.
Jonathan van Tulleken (“Shōgun”) will direct and executive produce the first two episodes.
Luisa tells EW that Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi noir acts as the series’ North Star, but it’ll forge its own identity: “We leaned into sunshine noir. You’re still very much in the Blade Runner world, but the show is about a birth. It’s about a birth of a city. It’s about a birth of a replicant era. These characters are discovering who they really are. And so the climate is hot, it’s sticky, it’s sunny. We’re on the coast a lot. We’re in Santa Monica a lot. So it’s like you’re seeing Ridley’s texture, but you’re seeing it in the sunshine noir filter.”
The showrunner adds, “The show is really imagining what comes after us, and what does it mean to be human in a world where humanity is no longer relevant?“
Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy), Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), and Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell) also star in the upcoming series. Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), and Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon) join as recurring guest stars.
Blade Runner 2099 is expected to premiere later this year, so stay tuned.
Credit: Clay Enos/Prime Video
Credit: Clay Enos/Prime Video
Credit: Clay Enos/Prime Video
Credit: Clay Enos/Prime Video
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