Exclusive Teaser Trailer Reveal for TECHNOBURGER, A Horror Anthology from Andrew Edison, Raising Finishing Funds: "The filmmakers are currently raising funds to finish principal photography. The campaign begins October 13 and runs until November 12.
In the spirit of classic midnight movies, TECHNOBURGER serves up a greasy combo meal of cringe comedy and schlock horror in four twisted tales following desperate Americans and their parasitic dependencies on technology. This cyber anthology offers a satirical bite into the near future, where a stoner delivery driver is hacked and stalked by an eccentric billionaire, an erotic ASMR artist transforms into an alien entity, a dogfluencer is haunted by his dearly deceased pet, and a young gamer’s worst fears all come to life. Monsters aren’t hiding under beds anymore, they’re hacking our very existence in this digital dystopian technoburgerfied mashup.
TECHNOBURGER is told in five chapters: The Mysterious Stranger, The Alien, The Ghost, The Witch, The Sasquatch. Three chapters have been shot and now a crowdfunding campaign is underway to complete the final two.
About - Andrew Edison - Director/Writer/Producer
Andrew is a Brooklyn-based indie filmmaker and the creative mind behind Kevin Smith's BINDLESTIFFS, winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Slamdance Film Festival. BINDLESTIFFS is distributed under Smith's Smodcast Pictures label across major streaming platforms including Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, iTunes, and Redbox. Edison's recent short films are currently screening at festivals internationally. The Huffington Post praised his work as having "the kind of devotion to craft that is missing from most indie cinema, and far too many Hollywood pictures."
Director’s Statement: "People ask me, “why is the film called Technoburger?” I say it’s multiple things. Technoburger means me; I am a Technoburger - doom scrolling, falling down internet rabbit holes, watching videos of violence, of true crime, cringey Karens, deep-state conspiracies, and on and on. Sometimes my phone is the Technoburger - dinging incessantly, lighting up with a new alert, doing everything in it’s power to pull me away from real life. And then…in the background of every chapter in the film, The Technoburger Corporation is an omnipresent near-futuristic Amazon, Apple, and Google combined. A super-sized mega-congolomerate optimizing their secret technological recipes to make my characters eat more and more until suddenly they’re about to puke. I invite the audience to experience the uncanny and the absurd, to reflect on their technological dependencies and to rethink the narratives of their own lives in this increasingly digitized world."
Support the campaign on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technoburgermovie/technoburger-a-greasy-combo-of-twisted-tales
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GET IN THE SPOOKY SPIRIT WITH A LIMITED EDITION “THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN ANNUAL” VARIANT AT UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS: "Grab all your goblins, ghouls, and ghosts, and get ready for a horrifically eventful Halloween! This year, Dark Horse Comics is celebrating with a limited-edition variant of The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 one-shot with brand new cover art by Phillip Sevy. This special variant is limited to just 500 copies, which will be available at select events, beginning with The Famous Monsters Festival on Friday the 13th, 2023, where David Dastmalchian will be making a special appearance!
This special variant will also be available at New York Comic Con at Phillip Sevy’s table in Artists Alley (#B10). Each venue will have the comic for sale for $20. Limit two copies per person, per day.
There will be later events and opportunities to snag this special variant, including online sales through Dark Horse Direct (darkhorsedirect.com), but with quantities this limited, fans won’t want to sleep on this special spooky variant cover!
More details about The Famous Monsters Festival: On Friday the 13th, fans are invited to join Dark Horse and David Dastmalchian for one night only at The Famous Monsters Festival in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The Famous Monsters Festival is a horror, sci-fi, and fantasy themed convention that brings the world’s top genre celebrities and vendors to fans. Dastmalchian will have a Q & A panel at 7pm, and Dark Horse will have a table with comics available for purchase, including The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 limited edition variant, as well as Dastmalchian’s Count Crowley Volumes 1 and 2, and more treats.
Tickets for The Famous Monsters Festival can be bought at www.famousmonstersfest.com or at the door. The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual limited edition variant can be bought at the event, at NYCC (#B10), and coming soon to www.darkhorsedirect.com.
The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 is a new 56-page Halloween anthology from Dark Horse Comics with stories by a terrifyingly terrific slate of creators: Angela Slatter (Castle Full of Blackbirds), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter), Olivia Stephens (Darlin’ and Her Other Names), Phillip Sevy (Tomb Raider, The House), Christie Porter, Leah Kilpatrick, David Dastmalchian (Count Crowley), Valeria Burzo (Castle Full of Blackbirds), Tyler Crook (Harrow County), and Frank Cvetkovic (The House). This new anthology comic can be ordered or purchased from your local comic shop with three covers that are widely available: main cover A by Ketner, variant B by Mike Mignola, and variant C by Mark Spears. The anthology issue with these covers will be out October 18, 2023 wherever comics are sold, and the standard cover versions will retail for $7.99. See more details here."
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French Macabre Horror PANDEMONIUM From the Creative Mind of Quarxx Makes US Premiere at Screamfest Screens October 14: "Transgressive Production is excited to announce that Screamfest LA will host the October 14th US Premiere of Pandemonium, the latest feature from filmmaker Quarxx (All the Gods in the Sky). The film made its world premiere at Neuchâtel and went on to screen at Fantasia, Frightfest, Fantasy FilmFest, Sitges, Grimmfest and Trieste.
Drawing on themes found in Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost, Pandemonium is a multi-textured existential fantasy, topped with signature notes of visceral horror, disturbing fairy tale, wry comedy, and dark thriller. From the creative mind of Quarxx, comes this aesthetically stunning and relentlessly macabre tale.
Pandemonium was produced by Isabelle Guenezan of Transgressive Production along with executive producer Martine Melloul of Kali Pictures. Film Seekers is handling international sales.
Pandemonium follows Nathan (Hugo Dillon), an ordinary man on a journey he never expected. After realizing he has died at the scene of a car crash, Nathan descends into the depths of hell, where he is doomed to experience the pain of tortured souls along the way."
Pandemonium at Screamfest:
TCL Chinese Theatre, Screen 6
Saturday, October 14, 7:30 PM PST
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