{"id":2871,"date":"2018-10-05T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2018-10-22T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T00:18:25","slug":"dot-ep72-wild-artist-cari-ann-shim-sham-plus-new-music-from-the-chandler-travis-three-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2018\/10\/05\/dot-ep72-wild-artist-cari-ann-shim-sham-plus-new-music-from-the-chandler-travis-three-o\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT EP72: Wild Artist Cari Ann Shim Sham, plus New Music from the Chandler Travis Three-O"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love Halloween, and I live just a few minutes from Salem, Massachusetts, celebrated for the Salem Witch Trials and home of a full month of Halloween insanity through the month of October. You\u2019d think someone would have created a horror-themed festival for the city a long time ago, but it wasn\u2019t until last year that the Salem Horror Fest<\/a> sprung up, and with it the shorts program where I saw Cari Ann Shim Sham<\/a>\u2019s film, The Parksville Murders<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n

I had just watched a whole evening\u2019s worth of great horror shorts, some of which I wound up featuring on the Daily Horror Film Fest. I thought the evening was done, but there was one more surprise left. Out in the lobby of Cinema Salem there were a couple of tables with virtual reality headsets and one more film to watch. A short horror opera in virtual reality. The film was utter insanity. A woman in a bathtub in a room what looked like an abandoned, unfinished shack, surrounded by angels of death. And she\u2019s singing opera. It was an overwhelming experience. If you get a hold of some VR headsets and watch this in your own home, you\u2019ll want to be sitting down. Everywhere you look there is something ominous to fill your eyes. And the music fills your head. There is no escape for your senses. <\/p>\n

The Parksville Murders:<\/strong><\/em><\/strong>
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