After four years of kick-ass podcasts , radio shows and almost non-stop site updates, Shawn and yours truly are taking a break from The Basement . Are we finished? No. But there won't be regular episodes and site updates for the time being. Suffice to say, we won't return for a fifth season on 92.5FM CFBX Kamloops come October. Why? Not because the show has lost popularity. We still knock 'em dead on a weekly basis. This past season was our most popular yet and the last two podcasts, including the June special, have been among our biggest episode debuts ever. You love us. You really love us! But four years is a long time bust ass the way Shawn and I do. We've got families and day jobs on top of everything Basement related. Plus we're hip deep in a couple of film projects that will come to a head here in the next couple of months. As awesome as us Basement Dwellers are, something has to give. So we humbly set aside our Basement duties for the time being....

By now it should be no secret that I loved the shit out of The Pact , a creepy little movie that demands attention and multiple viewings . . . because it's shorts shitting entertainment at its finest. The Basement revealed a few weeks back that a sequel is in the works . And while I was initially excited for writer Dallas Hallam and director Patrick Horvath's follow up, the synopsis leaves me a little cold. Read on: “ Only a few weeks after Annie Barlow exterminated the plague that was the Judas Killer, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life in Los Angeles is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life. When Special Agent Kevin Dickey, the FBI agent assigned to wrap up the case of the newly deceased Judas Killer shows up at June’s door, he brings with him some terrifying news – there is a Judas copycat killer on the loose in her neighborhood! In the course of his investigation, Dickey shows June a picture...