![]() ![]() It's not until 1998 when Paramount decides to take a bunch of random movies from their back catalog and flush them out to non-anamorphic, no-extras DVD's (with that huge red "WIDESCREEN COLLECTION" banner across the bottom) that the film starts to get noticed. A Laserdisc release in 1992 (which makes no mention of the 10-year anniversary) still gains no attention, which is just as well since the cropping of the movie is wrong and Paramount decided it would be a great use of people's brand new 5.1 setups to process the audio from the movie's original mono sound to something with more "pop", but the effect is distracting because the technology to do this sort of sucks at the time. The film is released on Betamax and VHS in 1983 and continues to be ignored. The original choice to do the voice was Harlan Ellison, and all the lines were recorded and even committed to the "final" cut, but the producers went out and had a particularly coked up evening and decided they needed someone "hip" to try and get "butts in the seats" so they grabbed the first guy they could find on the cover of whatever magazine they spotted first when they went into that gas station on the way home. The few critics who do comment on it make note of how whatever the movie had going for it was ruined by the use of Gene Simmons as the voice of AM. ![]() It features a cast of mostly no-name actors, almost all of which go on to either leave the industry or have bit parts in television shows, with the exception of then-unknown Michael Ironside, who went on to make an actual career out of it. It was directed by David Cronenberg, who at the time wasn't yet a household name. The movie comes out in 1982 and everyone completely ignores it. The results ARE IN! Go to this forum post to see who won! Turn on that creative thinking, and get cracking on your entries. Please make sure to remember about the "PG-13" rating of our imaginary movie. As usually, the contest is not region-limited. Depending on the number and the quality of entries, we might award some runner-up prices. The submission deadline is Wednesday, September 25, at 10:00AM GMT, which gives you almost a full week to work on your entries. We'll choose one best entry in both categories. Again, including the name of the director and your own cast is a good idea. All you need to do is to write up a short voiceover for an imaginary trailer that would go with the said movie. The author of the best looking, most creative poster gets one of the box sets.ĭon't feel comfortable enough with your photoshop skills? Don't fret! There's still the second box set you can get. Please include essential info on the poster, like: who's the director? Who's playing who? Who's voicing the sinister AI? You know, stuff like that. We want you, to design a movie poster for "Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The Motion Picture" (PG-13!). ![]() We want to correct this, at least partially. By the rules of entertainment convergence a movie should have happened at some point, right? Well, somehow it didn't. So, there was the short story, then there was the game. How to get your hands on this gaming treasure, you ask? Ellison isn't known for being a particularly social person (not unlike many other brilliant writers), but the fact is we have them, and we're quite happy to part with them (that's a lie), as long as they end up in the hands of our creative users (that part's true). How Night Dive managed to acquire them is quite the mystery, as Mr. Or two, actually, as we have two such sets to give away at this time. This is one of those times in the history of our classic catalog, that really calls for a special celebration! You know how we like to celebrate, right? By giving you something special! This time, we offer you the chance to get a very special I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream original box set, containing the CD edition of the game, a user manual, and- *drumroll*-a mousepad signed by Harlan Ellison, himself!. One of the most haunting gaming experiences of all times, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, a psychedelic Sci-Fi thriller inspired by Harlan Ellison's short-story by the same name, has been brought back to life by the relentless Nightdive Studios, and is now available for only $5.99 on GOG.com.
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