Backstage at the Calamity, Vol. I No. XXIV: The Calamity is Now On Letterboxd! And, of course, the Groundskeeper Part XXIV

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Announcements

It is with great pleasure that I announce the Carnival of Calamity has a presence on Letterboxd! If you are unfamiliar with Letterboxd, please allow me to enlighten you: this is a platform that is fast becoming—if, in fact, it is not already—the foremost destination for film enjoyers. With a free account on Letterboxd, you can add unlimited films to your watch list; rate and review them; connect with other like-minded film enjoyers; and—this is really why I’m running my mouth about all this here—create innumerable lists of films for any fucking reason whatsoever.

Why am I telling you this? Because beginning with the first edition of the Backstage Pass Volume II, we here at the Calamity will be sharing with you lists! So many fucking LISTS! It’s going to be grand! Each list will include two to four films for your enjoyment over the weekend, with a full review of one film, and a brief discussion about why those particular films appear on a list together. Each list will be made public and shared in a separate post on the Backstage Pass site every Thursday.

Listen, if this excites you, and you are interested in receiving the list and movie review as an email each Thursday, please reply to this email with the phrase “I want the Letterboxd List in my inbox!” Feel free to copy and paste if you so desire. Otherwise, the content will be published separately, and you’ll receive a link in the Backstage Pass digest delivered on Friday.

If your curiosity is piqued, we have prepared a list for your perusal, taking two popular franchises—Predator and Alien—and intermixing the films chronologically, as they are popularly understood to lie on a timeline:

Attractions in Development

There really isn’t much to report here that hasn’t already been discussed ad nauseam. Not much writing this week, but rather a whole lot of preparation for what’s coming in Volume II. In Volume II, you will see the introduction of A Vampire’s Vengeance and Bus Driver, two stories you will be able to follow along with as they are being written. The Groundskeeper is getting their own publication; so too is a character from Book 3 of the Children of the Damned series, by way of revealing more of what the world looks like post-Unholy Requiem. These will have mention and be linked to in Volume II. And as mentioned above, the Letterboxd List. All prep. So much prep. Hopefully there will be time in the near future to return to the development of Body Count and finally open that up to guests.

Now, without further ado …

The Groundskeeper, Part XXIV