What does all of this mean?! Well, fans of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series American Horror Story, answers are coming sooner than you think! FX is hosting the “Ahs 6 Sweeps” which gives fans of the series an opportunity to correctly guess the theme of Season 6 and win really cool prizes while doing so. Also in today’s Highlights: release details for Dark Exorcism and The Taint Vinyl Soundtrack.
American Horror Story Season 6 Sweepstakes Details Plus Teasers: Press Release: “Los Angeles, CA (August 25, 2016) – FX Networks has kicked-off the American Horror Story S6 Sweeps, the ultimate sweepstakes challenging American Horror Story (Ahs) fans to guess the theme of this year’s season. For the first time in the history, the theme for the iconic series will be kept under wraps until the premiere episode airs on September 14th.
“The new Ahs teaser campaign has fans anxiously awaiting the premiere and the reveal of this season’s theme,...
American Horror Story Season 6 Sweepstakes Details Plus Teasers: Press Release: “Los Angeles, CA (August 25, 2016) – FX Networks has kicked-off the American Horror Story S6 Sweeps, the ultimate sweepstakes challenging American Horror Story (Ahs) fans to guess the theme of this year’s season. For the first time in the history, the theme for the iconic series will be kept under wraps until the premiere episode airs on September 14th.
“The new Ahs teaser campaign has fans anxiously awaiting the premiere and the reveal of this season’s theme,...
- 8/27/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Breaking Glass Pictures will release the chilling indie horror Dark Exorcism On Demand and DVD this July. A “chilling to the core” (Aint’ It Cool News) tale of possession from award-winning writer/director David Spaltro, Dark Exorcism follows a paranormal investigator and a grad student as they come face-to-face with evil. Dark Exorcism will be available …
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- 7/18/2016
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
Title: In the Dark Director: David Spaltro Starring: Lynn Justinger, Grace Folsom, Fiona Horrigan Catherine Cobb Ryan and Jesse R. Tendler The prospect of exploring the seemingly frightening unknown, and ultimately deciding to take a leap of faith to explore a situation that you never thought you’d be emotionally prepared to handle, is a daunting prospect for many people. That unnerving anticipation of delving into unpredictable circumstances is intriguingly investigated in the new independent horror mystery drama, ‘In the Dark,’ which marks the first entry in the genre from writer-director David Spaltro. The filmmaker, who previously penned and helmed the intriguing indie dramas ‘…Around’ and ‘Things I Don’t Understand,’ boldly [ Read More ]
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- 8/9/2015
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Want to re-create the Rapture war? Funko has created Pop! vinyl figures of your favorite characters from the first and third BioShock games due out in October. Also: a teaser for ...In the Dark and details on The Transatlantic Zombie book.
BioShock Pop! Figures: From Funko: "Characters from the critically acclaimed and widely popular BioShock series are the latest addition to Pop! Games!
Booker DeWitt, a former member of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, comes with either his signature firearm or Sky-Hook for a quick escape! He’ll need both to take on villains like the alluring Little Sisters and super-sized 6” Big Daddy Pop! Nothing will keep Booker from the task at hand: rescuing Elizabeth!"
The BioShock Pop! vinyl figures will be released sometime in October.
Images via Funko:
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...In the Dark: "Skeptical grad student, Veronica Carpenter (Lynn Justinger), interviews renowned paranormal specialist, Dr. Lois Kearne (Fiona Horrigan), for...
BioShock Pop! Figures: From Funko: "Characters from the critically acclaimed and widely popular BioShock series are the latest addition to Pop! Games!
Booker DeWitt, a former member of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, comes with either his signature firearm or Sky-Hook for a quick escape! He’ll need both to take on villains like the alluring Little Sisters and super-sized 6” Big Daddy Pop! Nothing will keep Booker from the task at hand: rescuing Elizabeth!"
The BioShock Pop! vinyl figures will be released sometime in October.
Images via Funko:
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...In the Dark: "Skeptical grad student, Veronica Carpenter (Lynn Justinger), interviews renowned paranormal specialist, Dr. Lois Kearne (Fiona Horrigan), for...
- 7/29/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Indie filmmaker David Spaltro's follow up to his award-winning Things I Don't Understand, titled ...In The Dark, is an independently produced horror feature. Like Spaltro's earlier films, this is also set in modern day New York. The story concerns Bethany (Grace Folsom), a talented young artist who starts having strange experiences after her father's passing. Her distressed mother (Catherine Cobb Ryan) seeks help from Professor Kearne (Fiona Horrigan), an experienced and renowned specialist in paranormal activities. Together with sceptical grad student Veronica (Lynn Justinger), Kearne visits the house that appears haunted and the pair soon finds themselves coming face-to-face with forces that are much stronger and much more evil than they would ever imagine. It is clear that the script (also by Spaltro) was written following some detailed...
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- 6/22/2015
- Screen Anarchy
A skeptical grad student is realizing that her deepest fears may be coming true ‘…In the Dark,’ with the release of the horror film’s official trailer, poster and stills. The assets from the independent mystery drama have been released by its production companies, Seven Oaks Films and Intimation Productions, and its writer-director, David Spaltro. The film reunites two of its main actresses, Grace Folsom and Lynn Justinger, with the filmmaker, after they appeared in his last feature, the critically acclaimed and award-winning 2012 drama, ‘Things I Don’t Understand.’ ‘…In the Dark,’ which was filmed in New York City, also features Fiona Horrigan, Catherine Cobb Ryan and Kayla Leasure. “‘…In the [ Read More ]
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- 6/17/2015
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
A grad student interested in paranormal research embarks on a journey through supernatural force In the Dark. Newly online is the teaser for upcoming indie In the Dark, the third feature from East Coast-based filmmaker David Spaltro and his first venture into horror. The film looks toward demonic possession, and as always with indie horror, it’s nice…
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- 6/16/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
...In the Dark is a new, independently produced horror film by writer-director David Spaltro (...Around and the multi-award winning Things I Don't Understand) in collaboration with Seven Oaks Films and Intimation Productions. It stars Grace Folsom and Lynn Justinger (both from Things I Don't Understand), as well as Fiona Horrigan, Catherine Cobb Ryan and Kayla Leasure. Skeptical grad student, Veronica Carpenter (Lynn Justinger), interviews renowned paranormal specialist, Dr. Lois Kearne (Fiona Horrigan), for her thesis on the benefits of her supernatural research in regards to modern psychology, and joins her on a field study trip to a Brooklyn family home supposedly "besieged by evil spirits". Once at the residence of nurse Joan Mills (Catherine Cobb Ryan) and Bethany (Grace Folsom), her recently returned daughter, the investigators...
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- 6/14/2015
- Screen Anarchy
It’s a film festival! It’s a sideshow! It’s both! It’s the 12th annual Coney Island Film Festival, which will be taking over the world famous Sideshows by the Seashore and other venues on Sept. 21-23 at one of the most wonderful places on Earth: Coney Island!
This year’s fun begins on the 21st with the knock-’em-dead (literally) Opening Night film Play Dead, co-directed by underground journalist Shade Rupe and the world’s greatest silent magician, Teller. The film is a documentary performance of Teller and Coney Island’s own Todd Robbins hit live off-Broadway gore-a-thon.
Play Dead will then be followed by a wild Opening Night Party featuring a performance by Mr. Robbins, plus lots of burlesque performances, Go Go dancers and other crazy surprises.
Some of the other highlights of this year’s Ciff include the Mark Mori’s documentary Bettie Page Reveals All...
This year’s fun begins on the 21st with the knock-’em-dead (literally) Opening Night film Play Dead, co-directed by underground journalist Shade Rupe and the world’s greatest silent magician, Teller. The film is a documentary performance of Teller and Coney Island’s own Todd Robbins hit live off-Broadway gore-a-thon.
Play Dead will then be followed by a wild Opening Night Party featuring a performance by Mr. Robbins, plus lots of burlesque performances, Go Go dancers and other crazy surprises.
Some of the other highlights of this year’s Ciff include the Mark Mori’s documentary Bettie Page Reveals All...
- 9/18/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Chicago – Five years after earning praise for his directorial debut, “…Around,” indie filmmaker David Spaltro has returned behind the camera to deliver his second feature. The film, “Things I Don’t Understand” may be many things, but a sophomore slump it is not. Its assured craftsmanship, fine performances and provocative themes have made it one of the most buzzed-about pictures on the festival circuit.
Molly Ryman stars as Violet, a jaded grad student who develops a friendship with two outsiders—a mysterious bartender, Parker (Aaron Mathias), and a cancer-stricken teen, Sara (Grace Folsom). Meanwhile, Violet’s eccentric roommates, Gabby (Meissa Hampton) and Remy (Hugo Dillon), struggle to avoid getting evicted from their cozy loft. Beautifully lensed by cinematographer Gus Sacks, the film explores faith, doubt, friendship and the beauty that can be found in catharsis. Spaltro served as writer, producer, director and editor on the picture, which has already garnered various awards this year.
Molly Ryman stars as Violet, a jaded grad student who develops a friendship with two outsiders—a mysterious bartender, Parker (Aaron Mathias), and a cancer-stricken teen, Sara (Grace Folsom). Meanwhile, Violet’s eccentric roommates, Gabby (Meissa Hampton) and Remy (Hugo Dillon), struggle to avoid getting evicted from their cozy loft. Beautifully lensed by cinematographer Gus Sacks, the film explores faith, doubt, friendship and the beauty that can be found in catharsis. Spaltro served as writer, producer, director and editor on the picture, which has already garnered various awards this year.
- 7/25/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
David Spaltro's Things I Don't Understand is a wonderful independent film set in New York City that has been selected at numerous film festivals and won a number of prestigious awards over the past few months. The film's lead actress Molly Ryman gave a wonderful performance, for which she was recently awarded Best Actress at the Northwest Ohio Independent Film Festival. I sat down with Molly to talk about acting, life and independent filmmaking. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? Oh goodness. Well, I am originally from Minnesota. I have an incredible family though I have always felt like the odd ball. I've always been a bit of a daydreamer so my family has been good at keeping me (somewhat) practical. I...
- 7/17/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Things I Don’t Understand is the second feature film from director David Spaltro, and it’s a film that at first seems to be about all the bad in the world, including death. But if one digs into the lead character of Violet and the story itself, it becomes clear that, while the film is indeed about the bad, it’s more about what shapes you as an individual. What part of you is worth keeping, and what do you cast aside? What is the ideal you? In the case of Violet, and really for all of us, there is no answer that will ever truly satisfy, except perhaps that you continue on the ride and at some point, it becomes clear.
- 6/20/2012
- by Dirk Sonniksen
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Things I Don’t Understand
Written by David Spaltro
Directed by David Spaltro
USA, 2012
Of the many unanswerable metaphysical questions that surround life, the most confounding, ironically, are those that concern death. Humanity’s pathological and evolutionary imperative to survive has driven us to try and rationalize our collective eventualities, in hopes to both understand and maybe, just maybe, bring about some kind of curative. An endeavor first taken on by philosophers, their eloquent scribblings only conciliate the fact that we still don’t know the nature of death.
Some filmmakers, whom are, what some would argue, our modern philosophers, still strive to enlighten by using cinema as a breakthrough meditative medium. Writer and director David Spaltro comes from this particular school of thought, but, like his forbearers, his contributions to the discourse are fairly nominal.
A film peppered with macabre musings à la Richard Linklater, his aptly titled Things I Don’t Understand,...
Written by David Spaltro
Directed by David Spaltro
USA, 2012
Of the many unanswerable metaphysical questions that surround life, the most confounding, ironically, are those that concern death. Humanity’s pathological and evolutionary imperative to survive has driven us to try and rationalize our collective eventualities, in hopes to both understand and maybe, just maybe, bring about some kind of curative. An endeavor first taken on by philosophers, their eloquent scribblings only conciliate the fact that we still don’t know the nature of death.
Some filmmakers, whom are, what some would argue, our modern philosophers, still strive to enlighten by using cinema as a breakthrough meditative medium. Writer and director David Spaltro comes from this particular school of thought, but, like his forbearers, his contributions to the discourse are fairly nominal.
A film peppered with macabre musings à la Richard Linklater, his aptly titled Things I Don’t Understand,...
- 6/19/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Hugo Dillon and Molly Ryman in "Things I Don't Understand"
Someday, everyone you know won’t exist. Tomorrow doesn’t matter until it’s today. No one makes it through life unscathed, in one way or another.
These are just a few of the lessons found in “Things I Don’t Understand,” a small indie rumination with big pretensions. In his follow up to his debut feature “…Around” (2008), director David Spaltro gets ambitious and tackles life’s essential questions: what happens when we die? why are we here? what does it mean to love? how can we accept death?
Violet is an aloof grad student hoping to discern life’s indiscernible mysteries through her study of death and beyond. Along the way she’s befriended, challenged and enlightened by a terminally ill woman and a cagey bartender, and faces the realities of adult life with her boisterous artist roommates.
As in his debut “…Around,...
Someday, everyone you know won’t exist. Tomorrow doesn’t matter until it’s today. No one makes it through life unscathed, in one way or another.
These are just a few of the lessons found in “Things I Don’t Understand,” a small indie rumination with big pretensions. In his follow up to his debut feature “…Around” (2008), director David Spaltro gets ambitious and tackles life’s essential questions: what happens when we die? why are we here? what does it mean to love? how can we accept death?
Violet is an aloof grad student hoping to discern life’s indiscernible mysteries through her study of death and beyond. Along the way she’s befriended, challenged and enlightened by a terminally ill woman and a cagey bartender, and faces the realities of adult life with her boisterous artist roommates.
As in his debut “…Around,...
- 5/2/2012
- by Eric M. Armstrong
- The Moving Arts Journal
It's a classic underdog story. Indie filmmaker David Spaltro's second feature, Things I Don't Understand, was a superb film waiting to be discovered. You might recall reading my review of the film and interview with the director, a really nice guy who in the words of fellow excellent indie director, Gary King (How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song), is 'very humble and supportive'. So I was quietly confident that it was just a matter of time before Things I Don't Understand would find its audience. The film entered its first film festival, Indie Spirit Film Festival, last weekend. The first screening was early on the Saturday morning and unsurprising, there were only a few people (8 to be exact) in the audience. The good...
- 4/25/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The most recent great film set in New York City that I saw was a little independent film called Things I Don't Understand from writer-director-producer David Spaltro. As you could tell from my positive review, I admired it a lot. So when I heard that pre-production for Spaltro's third and final valentine to NYC (after 2008's ...Around and 2011's Things I Don't Understand) has begun and that shooting is due to start in early winter 2013, I am naturally excited. Here is what Spaltro told me about his new film: "The film's plot deals with memories, the art of writing and storytelling, changing relationships as well as a science fiction element involving time travel and space. It's going to be a bit non-linear detailing an important...
- 4/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Things I Don't Understand is a fantastic independent film that I got the opportunity to watch and review recently, and it was an absolute pleasure for me to catch up with the film's director David Spaltro to talk about life, Tidu, and independent filmmaking.Independent filmmaking can be both challenging and rewarding. Tell us the things you like and dislike the most about being an independent filmmaker. An actor on my first film who had participated in a ton of critically acclaimed films during the indie explosion of the early 90's told me something a writer-director said when their film was at Cannes, "I'll never have this much freedom again". I think the beauty of independently going out and making a film is that you have a...
- 3/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Indie filmmaker David Spaltro's Things I Don't Understand is a little film that discusses life's big issues. Death and dying; love and loss; and family and friendship are some of the central themes of the film. Things is thought provoking while at the same time manages to avoid being preachy. Considering the serious nature of its subject matters, it is surprisingly enjoyable thanks to a beautiful script penned by Spaltro himself, as well as some outstanding performances by his cast. The film's central character Violet has a pretty messed up life. As a result of this and some of her experiences in the past, she is obsessed with the subject of death and what happens after people die. She starts interviewing people who have had near-death...
- 3/1/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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