Select movie listings for September 20-26, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report! And did you take a peek at the Image of the week?
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Select movie listings for May 31-June 6, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report!
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Select movie listings for April 19-25, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report! And, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?
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Select movie listings for April 5-11, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report!
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The monster invasion of the Midwest never stops and indie groups like Acrostar Films, Moonlight Films, and Cheevies Film Productions are more than happy to keep ’em coming. How have they scared us lately?
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Several indies filmed in part or whole in downstate Illinois during the last few years are finally emerging, and half of them were not initiated by local producers. How do we fare in our visitors’ fields of vision?
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In her newest project and Kickstarter push, Decatur-area native Jessie Seitz sets out to course-correct monster movie history in MONSTER GIRLS, a salute to women makeup effects artists.
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At one time, four indie television shows were being worked on simultaneously in downstate Illinois. Only PEORIA has persisted with little interruption. What happened to the rest? These are their stories.
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The Normal Theater in downtown Normal, Illinois, will allow local filmmaker Paul A. Brooks and friends to unleash HUNTING FOR THE HAG on their silver screen on May 12, 2023. Dare to dig the Hag!
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The Normal Theater will present the indie feature FINAL SUMMER from Front 76 Films of Champaign on November 17, 2022. See this campground slasher before it goes on a screening hiatus!
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A made-in-southern Illinois micro-budget indie, UNLISTED OWNER, has come back on the market as DIRECTORS CUT. We chat with its realtor, young and upcoming genre filmmaker Jed Brian.
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The creators of UNLISTED OWNER strike again! This time, they stake out real estate in blockchain territory with their original made-for-NFT short film, TRICK NOT TREAT. Purchase the key today!
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Trick or treat! Five indie horror flicks originating in or adjacent to the meat-and-potatoes midsection of Illinois make the cut in our new marathon report. Come along for the haywire hayride, hardy souls!
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A new crop of American horror stories from the Prairie State are coming soon to C-U Blogfidential, and here we preview two: C.O.R.N: A FIELD OF SCREAMS and UNLISTED OWNER. Aw, shuck!
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Lost in the woods for several years, the ‘Q&A du C-U’ department returns all possessed and shizz! Today, we talk CHASE AND SHEP’S SUMMER CAMP OF HORRORS! with co-creator Chase Todd of Savoy.
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