This Week's DCMG Digest - 5th to 11th October

Here's a round up of all the new articles this week on The DreamCage and AlbieMedia websites...

It was the second week of our now-traditional Hallow-vent Calendar of horror films counting down to Halloween, courtesy, as every year, of the horror-meister David Ames. This year's theme is Asian Horror and here are the film choices for this week:

Day 5 - The 3rd Eye
Day 6 - Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

Day 7 - Kuntilanak
Day 8 - Blood: The Last Vampire
Day 9 - Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman
Day 10 - Macabre
Day 11 - The Red Shoes

You can follow the rest of David Ames' Hallow-vent Calendar here.

This week was also the first week of London Film Festival which, along with everything else, has gone online this year. Here are Ren and Steve's reviews so far:

"I completely bought Riz Ahmed’s performance and I felt his pain and turmoil."

Steve Taylor-Bryant watched Mogul Mowgli...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/10/film-mogul-mowgli.html


"a great little 15-minute adventure that sounds like one thing but turns out to be something completely different, something better."

Steve Taylor-Bryant watched Strange Object...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/10/short-film-strange-object.html

"if I have to work this hard to fill in the gaps what is the point?"

Steve Taylor-Bryant caught Loose Fish...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/10/short-film-loose-fish.html

"a short film that quite literally packs a punch"

Steve Taylor-Bryant finds his short film of the festival so far with Bitter Sky...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/10/short-film-bitter-sky.html

"There is horror and pity in witnessing the mind of a loved one as it unravels and fragments."

Ren Zelen watched Relic...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/10/film-relic.html

"refreshingly, we can never guess precisely where her story’s unpredictable turns are going to take us"

Ren Zelen watched Kajillionaire...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/10/film-kajillionaire.html


"an existential journey peppered with dreamlike events and encounters."

Ren Zelen watched Siberia...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/10/film-siberia.html

Elsewhere On The DreamCage - https://www.thedreamcage.com/

Steve Taylor-Bryant may have drooled slightly as he read Batman: The Animated Series: The Phantom City Creative Collection, out now from Titan Books...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/10/book-batman-animated-series-phantom_10.html

"Are we supposed to suspect every weird looking person is a killer like it's a Scooby Doo cartoon?"

This week's Was This Always Weird Podcast is the stuff of Urban Legend...

https://www.thedreamcage.com/2020/10/podcast-was-this-always-weird-urban.html

On 26th December 2019, 627 pieces of Classic Doctor Who content were made available to Britbox subscribers. Every Sunday in 2020, our Doctor Who expert, Tony Cross, looks back at some of the classic stories.

Here are Tony's thoughts on...

Frontios (4 Episodes) 
Resurrection Of The Daleks (2 Episodes)
Planet Of Fire (4 Episodes) 

Meanwhile on AlbieMedia - https://www.albiemedia.com/

Another guitar hero heads for the great gig in the sky with the death of Eddie Van Halen, announced this week. Susan Omand looked back...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/10/sotd-eddie-van-halen.html


"this record just fills me with joy and makes me want to pogo."

Jimmy Hunter's #SotD80 choice this week is Dancing With Myself by Gen X...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/10/sotd80-gen-x.html

"I know precisely one song by The La’s."

Thirty years on, Susan Omand listened to The La's only studio album...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/10/turn-that-noise-down-las.html

"Had Diamond actually run out of steam and just didn’t bother writing any songs for this album?"

Forty years on, Jimmy Hunter looked back at the Neil Diamond album September Morn...

https://www.albiemedia.com/2020/10/ttnd80-neil-diamond.html

Find this week's contributors on Twitter:

@TheDavidMAmes
@Lokster71

@JimJamGin

@STBwrites

@omandoriginal

@RenZelen

and our Podcasting partners @WasThisAlways