Homemade Sci-Fi

Hunter Prey: Crash landing frees a crafty alien fugitive

Hunter Prey is an awe-inspiring and visually striking space thriller that is all the more impressive when taking the shoe-string budget into account. We saw the first thirty minutes of the film at Comic-Con and it kicked ass.

This is a must-see. If Syfy doesn't pick it up, they're nuts.

From the official website:

Hunter Prey centers around a group of elite intergalactic commandos that have crash-landed on a harsh and unknown planet while transporting an alien prisoner. Now they must track down and recapture the escaped creature, and their orders are to bring it in ALIVE.

Pacman: A fan film movie trailer

In 2002 Crystal Sky Entertainment teamed up with a Japanese distribution company and bought the movie rights to Pac Man. News of a live-action adaptation of the game captivated fans everywhere and spawned several classic fake trailers for the "upcoming" film.

Shockwave Darkside: Last humans battle it out on the moon in 3D

We met Jay Weisman at Comic-Con a couple weeks ago, where he was promoting his upcoming 3D feature, Shockwave, Darkside.

Yes, that's right, he's making an indie 3D sci-fi feature. Gutsy.

And to be perfectly honest, once we saw his frakking awesome trailer, we had to make sure indie sci-fi enthusiasts everywhere saw it.

Read on for our exclusive interview with Jay.

Zerks Log: An alien space comedy

The guys behind SciFinal (a great site devoted to sci-fi web shows) are fresh off the release of an online series of their own.

Zerks Log is a sci-fi comedy web series told through the found video logs of an alien space commander who clearly has issues. Happily for those of who love the old BBC series Red Dwarf and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, sci-fi funny business seems particularly suited to the web series format, promising a possible renaissance for lo-fi sci-fi comedy. You should check it out.

Read on for an exclusive interview with Producer/Director Steve Lettieri.

The Broken: Animated machine wars of the future

The Broken is a mind-blowing space-opera-meets-apocalypse animated short film set to the music of Coheed and Cambria.

From the official website:

Extreme devastation and mass extinction of living beings has blackened a distant universe, and an epic war continues to rage. On a ruined planet, machines of war battle desperately in a death-match to fulfill an ancient prophecy; the fecundation of a new future.

Unremembered: A physics mystery

Made on a truly DIY budget around $30,000, Unremembered explores causality and physics anomalies in a non-linear structure to tell the story of a man with no past revisiting events to repair his life.

Read on for an exclusive interview with Portland based director Greg Kerr.