Rish here. A long while back, Marshal and I watched an Eighties horror flick with Stephen Dorff called THE GATE.
It was a PG-13 horror flick about a gateway to the underworld in a suburban kid's yard from '87. Somehow, I never saw it. Till now. Check out the fun HERE, if you dare.
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| These creatures were really impressive, as little as they appeared in the film. Note: Nice to see that Vin Diesel had steady work back in 1987. |
Recently, Marshal Latham had a rather diabolical writing contest over at the Journey Into... podcast, call the Quordel Quell. Each entrant was given four words, generated by a game of Quordel, that we were supposed to craft a story around. After a lot of struggle, Rish submitted a story called "With A Banjo On My Knee," which tells of Garrett McClaren's discovery of a banjo that seems to have an unusual, maybe even magical effect on people.
Well, Marshal has created a production of that story over on the Journey Into... podcast, and it's available now, if you'd like to listen to it. He went nuts with full-cast (again), and there are a bunch of familiar faceless voices in this one, like Dave Thompson, Rene Chambliss, Gino Moretto, Bria Burton, and both Big and Rish.
Feel free to check it out HERE.
Rish here. Last year, I forced Marshal to watch KING SOLOMON'S MINES, a light-hearted RAIDERS rip-off starring Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, and John-Rhys Davies. I liked it a lot more than he did, so we waited a year to watch the sequel, ALLAN QUATERMAIN & THE LOST CITY OF GOLD.
Was it as good as the first one? Was it more or less of an Indiana Jones rip-off? Did it co-star any Dark Lords of the Sith or Mistresses of the Dark? Find out HERE.
Norm continues to do fine work, which you can check out at THIS LINK.
At last, the final chapter is available of Big Anklevich's story "Do-Over" is available on Big's podcast, Ye Olde Anklecast. Rish lends his presence to comment on the story and/or make annoying observations.
Find out if Big bucks the trend, and lets his unfortunate main character live happily ever after HERE.
Note: Apparently, the story is called "Do Over," not "Do-Over." Can I get a re-do?
As you know (Robert), Campfire Radio Theater continually presents the highest-quality audio dramas in podcast form, usually in disturbing and/or totally effed-up ways. This month's story is called "Desecrate," and I know nothing about the plot, because I'm too scared to listen to it. But if you're braver than me, and want to hear Rish voice the sheriff, check it out HERE.
Writer/director John Ballentine proves that anyone can be prodigious, as long as they're 40% talented, 50% hard-working, and 10% stark, raving mad. These guys always do, hands-down, the highest-quality audio drama, and show no signs of stopping.
Rish here. I've got another reading up at New York's Kaleidocast. Sam Schreiber sent us a couple of stories back in the Dunesteef days, so it was a pleasure to get to record his story "And the Raucous Depths Abide" for Kaleidocast. Of course, they commission their episodes so far in advance (I believe this one came to me in September or October of 2022) that I could barely remember the plot--something about two alien machines that come to earth to observe our evolution, only to have one lose its mind and become a threat.
It's packaged as a double-feature with a story called The Tallest Doll in New York City, so that sounds like a win-win to me. You can check it out HERE.
