{"id":2257,"date":"2007-08-16T01:02:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2007-11-18T21:28:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T21:28:52","slug":"shriek-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/16\/shriek-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Shriek: The Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfantasy.org\/shriek\/shriek_video.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/shriek.jpg\" alt=\"shriek.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not to be confused with animated junk that&#8217;s long outstayed its welcome, this is a short film based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff VanderMeer<\/a>&#8216;s fantasy novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shriekthenovel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shriek: An Afterword<\/em><\/a>. I helped design Jeff&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/city.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>City of Saints and Madmen<\/em><\/a>, his first book concerning the city of Ambergris. <em>Shriek<\/em> is set in the same city and is just as sophisticated a piece of fiction as its predecessor and with a similarly unique flavour. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfantasy.org\/shriek\/shriek_video.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shriek: The Movie<\/em><\/a> is more than a promotional device, it&#8217;s a self-contained narrative that does a great job of introducing some of the atmosphere of Ambergris without spoiling things by being too literal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A city at war with itself. A night beyond imagining. And&#8230; aftermath. A short indie film about memory and transformation by Finnish director J.T. Lindroos, from a screenplay by Jeff VanderMeer, with an original soundtrack by the legendary art-rock band The Church. The film opens with Janice Shriek typing up her memoirs from the backroom of a bar, and being interrupted by bar patrons (played by Steve Kilbey and Tim Powles from The Church!). Influenced by early surrealist films. Set in Jeff VanderMeer&#8217;s fantastical city of Ambergris.<\/p>\n<p>Voice cast includes Kathleen Martin as Janice Shriek and Steve Kilbey &amp; Tim Powles from The Church. With character images by Elizabeth Hand and Rick Wallace, and art by Scott Eagle, Steve Kilbey, and others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be confused with animated junk that&#8217;s long outstayed its welcome, this is a short film based on Jeff VanderMeer&#8216;s fantasy novel Shriek: An Afterword. I helped design Jeff&#8217;s City of Saints and Madmen, his first book concerning the city of Ambergris. Shriek is set in the same city and is just as sophisticated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/16\/shriek-the-movie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shriek: The Movie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,21,7,22],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-film","category-horror","tag-jeff-vandermeer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Ap","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}