It was a packed broadcast on From The Basement Saturday morning. That's right: Saturday morning! The show was preempted Friday night due to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but found a whole new audience with the switch up. And you get to hear all of it, plus even more of our interview with The Silencing director Robin Pront, right here on our latest podcast. But first, Jason and Shawn take on a G.I. Joe fan film from director -- and past Basement guest -- Rene Perez. The focus is on the classic character Snake Eyes, and Rene brings his gritty action sensibilities, and love of beautiful women, into play here. Does it work? Stick with us! Wanna watch the film for yourself? You can do so right here for free! As for that interview, we've got about five more minutes of our chat with Robin Pront. Robin talks all aspects of making the great thriller The Silencing, and working with stars Annabelle Wallis and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Haven't seen the movie yet? Get on it! It...

The Silencing is one of those pleasant films that comes out of left field and surprises you with a right/left combination, completing winning you over as a movie viewer. This Canadian thriller from director Robin Pront and writer Micah Ranum reinvigorates the tired serial-killer genre with an exciting story full of twists and turns that keep you guessing for most of its running time. There were several WTF moments that had me smiling with gruesome glee at what I was watching. Shawn and I have watched hundreds, if not thousands, of movies, many of them horror and thrillers. Rare is the day we're surprised anymore. But this one got me a few times thanks to some clever writing and misdirection. Bravo, guys! The story follows a reformed hunter (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and a small-town sheriff (Annabelle Wallis) who get caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse when they set out to track a killer who might have taken the hunter's daughter five years earlier. Sounds pretty 90s ...

The best part of your Monday morning has arrived: the latest podcast of the last broadcast From The Basement! Jason and Shawn dig into the new Canadian serial-killer thriller The Silencing, which hits VOD and Digital this Friday. The film, from director Robin Pront, stars Annabelle Wallis as a small-town sheriff, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as a reformed hunter on the trail of a killer of women. It's dark and gritty stuff, but is it ideal viewing if you want a late-summer chill? Stick with us! And stick with us you shall, as The Basement boys take on a slew of movies old and new. They touch on such favourites as Gravity, Jaws 3 and Echoes of Fear, and take on newer -- or new to them -- releases like John Henry starring Terry Crews, Hollows Grove featuring the great Lance Herniksen, and Frankenfish... starring, well, Frankenfish! Oh, and they do battle with recent streaming series The Speed Cubers and Inside the World's Toughest Prisons. If this doesn't intrigue you ...

The summer movie season is drawing to a close... Wait, it never actually happened to begin with... But those mad reviewers Jason and Shawn still bring you reviews of the latest movies you can actually watch so your free time isn't a total bust. And they have a new serial-killer thriller for you when From The Basement returns to the mighty Radio NL 610 AM Kamloops at 6:05 this eve. The movie is called The Silencing, and it stars Annabelle Wallis and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in a gritty tale of girls being murdered in a small town. Does The Silencing deliver a late-summer thrill? Stick with us! And stay tuned, as The Basement Boys have a whole slew of reviews for you, because they have nothing better to spend their time on. Shawn took in a number of releases old and new, including The Speed Cubers and Inside the World's Toughest Prisons, while Jason revisited such faves as Echoes of Fear and Jaws 3, while taking in hidden gems like the found-footage flick Hollow's Grove....

Andres Muschietti's short film Mama scared the pants off Shawn and I, and that's quite a feat at the best of times. Take into account the flick is just three minutes long and, well, yeah. Take that! Guillermo del Toro must have felt the same way, as he came on board as producer of a feature-length version of this creepy tale and recruited Muschietti to make it happen. Does adding 98 minutes mean 98 more scares ? Stick with me. Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces that were left alone in the forest for five years.... but how alone were they? Not very, as it turns out. And thank Jebus for it, because the full-length Mama wouldn't be the same if they were. And thank Jebus for allowing Muschietti to continue this scary tale without the horror and scares suffering. This is a freaky movie hindered only by a rushed ending. Fortunately, the rest of the movie is shorts shitting. Shawn and I feared adding CGI to the mix would hur...