Akin to the pre-television days when families gathered around the towering radios in their living rooms to listen to their favorite dramas, modern-day podcasts offer just as much storytelling immersion as their visual counterparts. In their first foray into the exciting world of podcasting, Cinestate's Fangoria is teaming up with Audioboom and Shudder to release a new eight-episode audio drama, The Narrow Caves, on December 20th, based on a script from S. Craig Zahler and featuring the voice talents of Vincent D’Onofrio, Will Patton, Lili Simmons, and Wyatt Russell.
Press Release: New York, NY — December 14, 2018 — FANGORIA, which was recently acquired by the Texas-based production company CINESTATE, launches horror podcast The Narrow Caves as part of the Audioboom Originals Network. The podcast is sponsored by Shudder, the on-demand video subscription service featuring horror, thriller and supernatural fiction titles owned and operated by AMC Networks.
Adapted from a script by award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and director S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Wraiths of the Broken Land), The Narrow Caves features voice acting by Vincent D’Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, Daredevil), Will Patton (Armageddon, Falling Skies), Lili Simmons (Bone Tomahawk, Banshee) and Wyatt Russell (Everybody Wants Some, Black Mirror). Binary Reptile provides the haunting score to the eight-episode series.
“The Narrow Caves is the first Audiostate ever released, a new type of content that combines the immersive quality of Hollywood films with the intimacy of audio, creating an ‘ear-movie’ experience,” says CINESTATE & FANGORIA CEO Dallas Sonnier. “Top talents from film and television have brought their years of storytelling experience to the podcast, bringing these characters to life and setting them on a lurid yet gorgeous path.”
The podcast follows two college students, Walter and Ruby, who are drawn to each other despite an antagonistic initial encounter. Their strange bond grows stronger when Walter joins Ruby on a holiday trip to her home in upstate New York, where a living darkness inhabits the woodlands that surround her family’s mansion. This engrossing and unpredictable blend of mystery, horror, and romance subverts the idea of “fated love” while exploring strange compulsions, intense desires, and ancient mysteries best left buried deep in the earth.
“Since launching the Audioboom Originals Network in 2017 we’ve experienced great success with everything from sci-fi comedies to improvised courtroom dramas and The Narrow Caves is a provocative and flawlessly produced addition to our audio fiction offerings,” said Audioboom’s VP of Content Partnerships, Brendan Regan. “We are thrilled to work with CINESTATE and introduce an internationally beloved franchise like FANGORIA to podcast fans.”
To capitalize on the cinematic quality of the series, all eight episodes of the podcast will be released at once, allowing the listener to explore the mysterious world of The Narrow Caves without interruption.
The Narrow Caves launches Thursday, December 20, 2018.
About FANGORIA
FANGORIA is an internationally distributed American horror film fan magazine, in publication since 1979. FANGORIA was acquired by CINESTATE, the Texas-based production company run by producer Dallas Sonnier, who re-launched the magazine in October as a print-only quarterly collectible while extending the franchise into films, podcasts, and books. FANGORIA recently wrapped production on the Grady Hendrix-penned Satanic Panic, directed by Chelsea Stardust and starring Rebecca Romijn.
About CINESTATE
CINESTATE is best known for producing S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk starring Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins, and Brawl In Cell Block 99 starring Vince Vaughn and Don Johnson. The company will soon release its next two features in 2019: another Zahler film, Dragged Across Concrete which premiered at the Venice Film Festival; and Henry Dunham’s The Standoff At Sparrow Creek which premiered in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival.
About Audioboom
Audioboom is a global podcasting platform that consolidates the business of on-demand audio, making content accessible, wide-reaching and profitable for podcasters, advertisers and brands. Audioboom operates internationally, with operations across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and addresses the issue of disparate podcast services by putting all of the pieces of the puzzle together under one umbrella, creating a user-friendly, economical experience.
Audioboom hosts over 14,000 content channels, with key partners including A+E Networks (US), An Acquired Taste (US), Associated Press (US), Astonishing Legends (US), Casefile True Crime (AUS), Chrisley Confessions(US), Edith Bowman (UK), F1:Beyond The Grid (UK), George Ezra & Friends(UK), Heston Blumenthal (UK), Jonathan Ross (UK), Moneycontrol Podcast(India), No Such Thing As A Fish (UK), Red FM (India), The Cycling Podcast(UK), The Totally Football Show (UK), The True Geordie Podcast (UK) and Undisclosed (US).
Original content produced by Audioboom includes Almost Smart with Vinny (US), And That’s Why We Drink (US), Ctrl Alt Win Podcast (India), Deliberations (US), I Almost Knew That (India), It’s Happening with Snooki & Joey (US), Mafia (US), The 45th (US), The Narrow Caves (US), The Psychology Behind with Dr Linda Papadopoulos (UK) and The Russell Brand Podcast (UK).
The platform receives over 60 million listens per month and allows partners to share their content via Apple Podcasts, BookMyShow, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, RadioPublic, Saavn, Spotify, Stitcher, Facebook and Twitter as well as their own websites and mobile apps.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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