Short Stab: News and Releases

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Welcome back to nightmare logic the podcast where

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we only take breaks for funerals I’m your host

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Christopher Smith off today are Peter Sawyer

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and Taffeta darling And I’m here just to give

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you a quick update along with some news and releases

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Welcome as you might have guessed from the intro.

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I’m alone this week in the studio both Peter

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and Taffeta I would like to be here, but unfortunately

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I have been out of town for a memorial service

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for my mother -in -law. So we weren’t able to

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get together today and record something with

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the three of us. But given that we’ve had a lot

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of growth on the pod this week and last week,

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I thought I would record a short episode anyways,

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just so people understand that we are a weekly

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podcast. So today is going to be a little different

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than our normal podcasts. Normally we’d have

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a longer discussion about some kind of topic

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like. twist endings or we might have an interview

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with a creator of some type, either a writer

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or a comic book artist or perhaps a sound designer

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like we had last week with Elliot Thompson. But

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this week I’m just going to stick with the opening

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segments that we have, news and coming releases.

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So let’s get started with the news. Perhaps the

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biggest headline from this week is we are getting

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a new long legs film. And not just that, it will

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be directed by Osgood and Perkins and star Nicolas

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Cage. What’s interesting is this time it’s not

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at NEON but for Paramount because apparently

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the concept came in at a higher budget and kind

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of a bigger scale than what NEON has set for

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themselves as a limit. For those who aren’t aware,

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Long Legs earned 128 million worldwide at the

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box office, but on a budget of less than 10 million

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dollars, which also kind of launched Osgood Perkins

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into the stratosphere. We’ve got a lot of high

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hopes for the new Long Legs film and can’t wait

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to check it out. For more news along those lines,

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we learned this week that the weapons prequel,

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Gladys, is set to release in 2028. What’s interesting,

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and perhaps disappointing to some, is that Zach

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Kreger, friend of the pod, will not be directing,

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but will co -write it. Which is a bit of a bummer,

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I’d love to see him do more work in that world,

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but he has got his hands full with a ton of other

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projects, and I bet he has a bunch more cooking

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in his brain, so can’t wait to see what he comes

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up with next after Resident Evil. Speaking of

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which, that brings us to the next bit of Zach

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Craigor news. His next film, The Flood, is set

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to be released in August 2028. So it’s going

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to be a big year for Zach. The Flood is a sci

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-fi thriller set on a distant space station.

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And the last I heard about this project, apparently

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there’s a big disagreement between Craigor and

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Netflix regarding Netflix has promised to release

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it in theaters when they sold it to them. My

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understanding is that they decided that they

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didn’t want to release it in theaters and Zach

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was pushing back, which is great, I think. And

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now it seems to have landed at Warner Brothers.

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So my guess is that they resolved it by releasing

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the film to sell it to Warner Brothers. So I’m

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curious to hear the backstory to that. It is

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a bit of a shame that we have to wait even longer

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now to see it, but at least it’s going to come

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out and in theaters. I think it’s going to be

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great. So check it out in August 2028. For the

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next topic, after a bidding war, Searchlight

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Pictures has acquired a South by Southwest hit

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monitor for a large sum of cash. So the premise

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of monitor is that after a disturbing video surfaces

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online, something begins to spread, moving from

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screen to screen, targeting everyone who watches.

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There’s no escape, no warning. Once you’ve seen

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it, it’s already too late. Sounds great. It’s

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actually based on a short film that the writer

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-director released back in the day that got a

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lot of buzz and critical reception, also called

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Monitor. And we will put that on this week’s

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show notes for you to check out. Last but not

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least, we’re getting an interactive slasher film

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in 2027. The film’s called Slayday. And as an

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article on Dread Central describes it, Slayday

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is an interactive slasher film that puts audiences

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in control of who lives and dies and is heading

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to a wide theatrical release in 2027. So about

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a thousand screens, from my understanding. In

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the film, audiences are posed a challenge. Can

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you survive a high school dance when it turns

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deadly? Set on Friday the 13th, 1987, in the

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picture -perfect town of Belle Falls, the story

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follows six teens preparing for their biggest

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night of the year, the Sadie Hawkins dance. But

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when the town exhumes the body of the real Sadie

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Hawkins to unravel the truth behind her killing

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spree 50 years earlier, a malevolent force returns

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to the town. Interactive film. Like maybe this

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is the future of cinema. Maybe it’s a gimmick.

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Maybe it works this one time or occasionally.

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I’m not sure, but I imagine there must be some

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kind of voting process for the audience, like

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something with your phone where you, you know,

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choose what happens next. So I’m curious to see

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how that flows, how the storytelling works, you

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know, as a filmmaker. And yeah, I’m just interested

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to check it out all around. Okay, moving on to

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our next segment. We’re going to be talking about

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what’s coming this week, April 17th, which in

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the land of horror and genre is not a whole lot

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really. But there is one big release coming this

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week, and that is Lee Cronin’s The Mummy for

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Blumhouse and James Wan. The Mummy is written

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and directed by Lee Cronin. of Evil Dead Rise

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fame, and apparently this film is a little bit

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more of a follow -up to Evil Dead Rise than a

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standalone Mummy or in some other Mummy -verse.

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It stars Jack Reiner, Lea Costa, and Mae Kalamuai.

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Here’s a short synopsis. The young daughter of

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a journalist disappears into the desert without

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a trace. Eight years later, the broken family

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is shocked when she is returned to them, as what

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should be a joyful reunion turns into a living

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nightmare. Sounds really interesting. We will

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have links to the trailer and the IMDB page on

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our show notes for today. Lastly, I wanted to

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mention an indie film, which actually came out

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on the 15th. It is called Citywide Fever, and

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it’s a thriller which is written and directed

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by Josh Heaps. It stars Ritanya Alda, Hugo Alexander

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-Rose, and Michael M. Belandic. A film student

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named Sam uncovers a hard drive chronicling forgotten

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Giallo director Saturnini Barisi’s life. Investigating

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his disappearance, she’s drawn into a violent

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conspiracy, mirroring the horror film she loves.

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From the trailer, I think there’s gonna be an

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audience for that, but it’s probably gonna be

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a little more niche. So if you’re into Giallo

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films, apparently it’s still been sort of a found

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footage, VHS, Giallo style, so it looks visually

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kind of interesting. If you’re into Giallo, you

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might be into this. Go check it out. That’ll

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bring us to the end of today’s short placeholder

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episode. For those new here, I invite you to

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come back for future episodes. Next week might

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be a little different as well because Peter will

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be at the Phoenix Film Festival for the premiere

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of our short film, Last Call. And if you live

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near Phoenix, we invite you to come out and see

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it in Shorts Block 1, which is on Friday night

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and Saturday night. You can also check out our

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growing catalog of back episodes. I think we

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are up to episode 11, so there’s 10 you can check

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out. I highly recommend checking out our Origin

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story, which is the first episode, and our interviews

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with guest David Delvall and sound designer Elliot

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Thompson were both great episodes as well. Thanks

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again for tuning in to today’s episode. The show

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notes are available on our website, NightmareLogic

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.net. And feel free to follow us on Instagram

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if you aren’t already, at Nightmare Logic Pod.

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Our theme was scored by the talented Lars Lange

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-Peterson. And if you are a true horror and genre

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fan, tune back in next week and every week. I

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personally would like to dedicate this episode

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to the loving memory of my mother -in -law, Hericlia

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Dusciani, your wonderful mother and grandmother.

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But please don’t come back as a zombie. I’m your

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host, Christopher Smith, joined in spirit by

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Peter Sawyer and Taffeta Darling. Goodbye for

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now.