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Stars: Stephanie Barkley, Thomas Wilson Brown, Jacqueline Joe, Lila Guimarães, Katie Simmons, Levi Payne, John Henry Richardson, Jiao Xu | Written by J. Scott Worthington, Hugh D’Calveley | Directed by William Hellmuth, Damon Duncan, Gabriel Kalim Mucci, Susie Jones, Lin Sun

Collecting together five short films from various directors, Tales From The Apocalypse connects its differing tales through an Armageddon theme. Considering the many ways that the end of days can occur, this makes for a variety of story ideas which can be collected for this anthology feature.

Opening the feature is Alone, from director William Hellmuth and writer J. Scott Worthington. The lone survivor of a destroyed research ship, engineer Kaya Torres (Stephanie Barkley) finds her research pod trapped as it circles a black hole. She manages to contact Hammer (Thomas Wilson Brown), a cartographer marooned on a planet. Despite a time displacement, the pair exchange messages which provide comfort as...

Available on digital and DVD on July 4th, we have the trailer premiere for the sci-fi anthology film Tales from the Apocalypse!

"Science-fiction anthology, Tales from the Apocalypse, featuring segments directed by the likes of Thomas Wilson Brown, Damon Duncan, and Gabriel Kalim Mucci, has been acquired by Uncork’d Entertainment for a July 2023, release.

Stories within Tales from the Apocalypse include one on an engineer circling a black hole in a pod, a 14-year-old girl and her father on the return journey to earth when an explosion cripples their aircraft, and a self-conscious Artificial Intelligence goes to the 4th dimension to fix humans future.

"The sci-fi equivalent of Creepshow or Trick R’Treat, Tales from the Apocalypse is a very imaginative, thrilling, and at times even quite scary assortment of stories from some very talented filmmakers.” said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. "There’s great work here by Brown,...

Peter Hsieh presented at this year’s CAAMFest his first feature film. “Drive All Night” is exactly what its title suggests. After writing several scripts and a long list of plays for the theatre, Hsieh created a thrilling and enigmatic story for the big screen.

The protagonists of “Drive All Night” are Dave and Cara. Dave is a taxi driver in a not specified American city. He works at night and seems to lead a simple, rather lonely life. His acquaintances are two other taxi drivers and the waitress at a diner. That Dave has a crash on her is evident. But something holds him back. Dave is on duty when he gets a call from a woman. She wants him to pick her up at her hotel. Cara is from the start a very brisk and straight-forward character. Therefore, she is actually exactly the opposite to Dave. Together they...

Stars: Yutaka Takeuchi, Lexy Hammonds, Sarah Dumont, Johnny Gilligan | Written and Directed by Peter Hsieh

Drive All Night follows Dave (Yutaka Takeuchi), a reclusive swing-shift taxi driver, whose night takes an unexpected turn after he picks up a mysterious passenger, Cara (Lexy Hammonds), a young woman hiding a dark secret. She makes him drive around the city without a clear destination or motive, and has him accompany her on a number of bizarre excursions – each one stranger than the next. Things get increasingly more surreal the further into the night they go, as Dave begins to learn about Cara and her troubled past. Unbeknownst to the pair, Lenny (Johnny Gilligan), an obsessive hitman, is hunting them, guided by strange visions and instructions from a powerful mob boss. Every place he visits brings him one step closer. Will Lenny catch up to Dave and Cara? What happens when the night ends?...

Out of nowhere, dark clouds blanket the sky over Washington DC and a deadly plague strikes everyone in its path. With that, we are enticed into the mysteries of The Black Dawn, a new multi-layered web-series directed by William Hellmuth.

Synopsis:

"The Black Dawn" centers around thirteen college students who have mysteriously survived a deadly plague that has fallen over Los Angeles. Banding together, these survivors must find out what has happened...and why.

The series, which started back on January 31, is now done and you can catch every episode here on WebSerials.com. If you're just looking for a quick taster though, we've got the first episode for you after the break. In true internet fashion, there's also an online comic that expands on the story but I still need to track down that link.

Check out episode 1 of The Black Dawn after the break.

What would you do if you woke up one morning to find a mysterious black cloud descending on top of the city of Los Angeles, killing everyone around you? If you're a real Angeleno, probably nothing - you've probably been taking smog for granted for years already. But this isn't real life, this is The Black Dawn, a new sci-fi web series from WebSerials.com that started airing January 31st on WebSerials and YouTube and has followed a weekly release schedule since then. The show stars Jordan Warren, Eamon Glennon, Misty Madden, and is co-written by Brian Walton and Abraham Sherman and directed by William Hellmuth.