Blood Incantation Announces Screening of Short Film The Stargate, Not to Be Confused with Stargate
According to Metal Injection, Denver-based death metal act Blood Incantation announced a screening in Los Angeles of their short film that is an accompaniment to the first part of their upcoming album Absolute Elsewhere. The short film is called The Stargate, and—wait, I’m sorry, I must have read that wrong. There’s no way they named it The Stargate. The title of the film is *checks source* no, it’s really called The Stargate. Really?
That title is very much taken by a science fiction franchise with one theatrical film, two straight-to-video films, three TV series, a short-lived animated series, a web series, and some books, video games, and comic books. It’s definitely a whole thing. Did nobody tell Blood Incantation this at any point in their creative process? Like “Hey guys, unless your film is about an Einstein-Rosen bridge that transports people across the universe, I think you might want to pick another name.” By the way, the Stargate franchise is owned by MGM, which is now owned by Amazon, so I feel like a cease-and-desist from Lex Luther Jeff Bezos is on the horizon. But sure, whatever, call it The Stargate if you want.
Anyway, the Blood Incantation short film, The Stargate, is screening will be on September 10 in LA at Brain Dead Studios and will be accompanied by a Q&A with director Roland Emmerich. No, I’m sorry, that’s the director of the 1994 film Stargate. The Stargate short film is directed by Michael Ragen and that’s who the Q&A session will be with.
A statement from the official PR wire that was reported on by Metal Injection reads:
“Blood Incantation have announced The Stargate short film which exquisitely captures the entirety of Absolute Elsewhere’s first sprawling movement. The Stargate presents the saga of a mysterious artifact and its victims in a hallucinatory synthesis of science fiction and folk horror, where mind bending imagery and unsettling atmospheres converge in a surreal tale of primeval blood magic, interdimensional travel and grotesque otherworldly technology beginning in the Dark Ages and journeying into voids of deep space.
“Directed by award winning cinematographer Michael Ragen (Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: The Viewing) and featuring mesmerizing analog fluid effects by Chris Parks (The Fountain) with an original score by Blood Incantation, The Stargate is unlike anything you have experienced before.”
So, wait, the short is also a sci-fi film? About interdimensional travel? Do Blood Incantation travel between dimensions through some sort of…gate-like device? How is that “unlike anything you have experienced before”? Have I transported to an alternate dimension where the Stargate franchise doesn’t exist? That’s the only way any of this makes sense.
Anyway, here’s where you can catch Blood Incantation on their tour with Midwife:
10/4 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater (w/ Steve Roach, no Midwife)
11/7 Portland, OR Hawthorne
11/8 Vancouver, BC The Rickshaw
11/9 Seattle, WA Substation
11/11 Berkeley, CA Cornerstone
11/12 Los Angeles, CA The Regent Theater
11/13 Tucson, AZ 191 Toole
11/15 Austin, TX Come and Take It
11/16 Dallas, TX Echo
11/18 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
11/19 Tampa. FL The Orpheum
11/21 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
11/22 Richmond, VA Canal Club
11/23 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Soundstage
11/25 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
11/26 Brooklyn, NY (Absolute) Elsewhere
11/27 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall
11/29 Montreal, QC Fairmount
11/30 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
12/1 Detroit, MI Magic Stick
12/3 Chicago, IL Metro
12/4 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line
12/5 Omaha, NE Bourbon Theater
