It's been a long time since we've heard anything about director Michael J. Bassett's follow up to the Silent Hill movie adaptation from several years back. Well, now we've got a trailer. So take that, bitches! When her father disappears, Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens) is drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood. Or so the story is supposed to go. Nice to see Sean Bean back as the dad and, judging from the above image, Radha Mitchell returns well. I'm not a huge fan of the games, and had no real issues with the Christophe Gans movie other than I liked it enough to only watch it once.  It will be interesting to see what Bassett, who made the awesome and sadly under appreciated Solomon Kane, will do with the material. We'll know more when Silent Hill: Revelation opens Oct. 26. But enough of my ramblings, here's the trailer already!

Black Death Jason: Black Death is exceptionally well made and acted, but it's not a lot of fun to watch. Most of the blame has to fall on Dario Poloni's script, which needed to be tightened and given more direction. There's some good scenes, and a great fight about 30 or so minutes in, but everything falls apart once the heroes reach the village. This is director Christopher (Triangle, Severance, Creep) Smith's weakest film. Three out of four ain't Bad, but that's what I have to rate Black Death. Shawn: This movie was so beautiful to look at and so well acted that I was pretty disappointed by how much the story let me down. There was so much potential for this to go off into so many cool directions, but it doesn't go with any of them. The "demon slayer" guys get way too easily duped by the villagers to be believable and Sean Bean was basically just playing the same character he did in The Lord of the Rings. This is a Bad movie for sure. Nice to...

The first of our Summer Break monthly specials records tonight, with Shawn and I stepping into the time machine and heading back . . .  waaaaaaaayyyyy back . . . to medieval England during the bubonic plague for the horror/thriller Black Death. Director Christopher Smith helms the picture, and he's directed some solid genre pieces with Creep, Severance and a Basement fave, Triangle. No two Smith movies are alike, so it will be interesting to see how this film, which stars the great Sean Bean, adds up. You'll find out when the podcast goes live Sunday night! Our special episodes are stripped down versions of the radio show. Just a review and some lively banter. If you miss our hour-long episodes tune in Fridays at 4 p.m. at 92.5FM CFBX Kamloops, Shaw Cable 106.1 and www.thex.ca for archived Season One episodes. And we'll be back in The Basement Oct. 7 at 10 p.m. PST for all new episodes with Season Two. Stick with us! And now a preview of coming attractions: