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Exclusive preview: “AILIEN REALMS” book showcases a world of fictitious movie posters, launching at Fantasia

Tuesday, July 4, 2023 | Books, Exclusives, News

By MICHAEL GINGOLD

The films never existed, but the eye-popping promotional art can be yours thanks to this new volume.

Filmmaker and artist Pat Tremblay will be launching his book TERROR IN THE AILIEN REALMS: TRANSDIMENSIONAL HORROR MOVIE POSTERS & THEIR FILM REVIEWS at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival this month. Inspired by VHS-box nostalgia, Tremblay created a wide assortment of poster art for fright films allegedly harking from an alternate dimension, with the assistance of AI. He then gathered a group of 50 genre filmmakers, writers and journalists (full disclosure: yours truly is one of them) to write reviews of those fictitious features. The result runs the spectrum from subtle and strange to bizarre and outrageous; four exclusive samples can be seen below.

The TERROR IN THE AILIEN REALMS launch party will take place on Friday, July 28 from 5-7 p.m. at McKibbins Irish Pub, 1426 Bishop, 2nd floor. Sixteen of the contributing writers will be on hand (with a few doing live readings of their reviews); they’re noted with a * in the complete list below:

Dave Alexander*
Rodney Ascher
Jay Baruchel
Chris Bavota*
Justin Benson*
Stephen R. Bissette
Jörg Buttgereit
John Campopiano
Rob Cotterill
Mitch Davis*
Damien Detcheberry*
Steve De Jarnatt
Fabien Delage*
William Earl
Isaac Ezban
Eric Falardeau*
Garnet Fraser
Matt Garrett
Ted Geoghegan
Michael Gingold*
Buddy Giovinazzo
Karim Hussain
Alan Jones
Elza Kephart
Matthew Kiernan*
Jeremiah Kipp
Simon Laperrière
Miguel Llanso
David Lawson Jr.*
Tim Lucas
Aaron Lupton
Andy Mauro*
Justin McConnell
Scooter McCrae
Mike Mendez
George Mihalka*
Aaron Moorhead*
Vincenzo Natali
Joel Potrykus
Richard Raaphorst
Dennison Ramalho
Jennifer Reeder
Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Simon Rumley
Gigi Saul Guerrero
Gary Sherman*
Graham Skipper
Lee Paula Springer*
Philippe Spurrell*
Andrew Traucki
Tal Zimerman

For more information on the book, head over to its official website.

Michael Gingold
Michael Gingold (RUE MORGUE's Head Writer) has been covering the world of horror cinema for over three decades, and in addition to his work for RUE MORGUE, he has been a longtime writer and editor for FANGORIA magazine and its website. He has also written for BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH, SCREAM, IndieWire.com, TIME OUT, DELIRIUM, MOVIEMAKER and others. He is the author of the AD NAUSEAM books (1984 Publishing) and THE FRIGHTFEST GUIDE TO MONSTER MOVIES (FAB Press), and he has contributed documentaries, featurettes and liner notes to numerous Blu-rays, including the award-winning feature-length doc TWISTED TALE: THE UNMAKING OF "SPOOKIES" (Vinegar Syndrome).