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.
