#Yvonne Navarro

[brokehorrorfan]

Enter the Video Store: Empire of Screams will be released on June 27 via Arrow Video. The Blu-ray box set includes five genre films produced by Charles Band’s Empire Pictures: The Dungeonmaster, Dolls, Cellar Dweller, Arena, and Robot Jox.

The Dungeonmaster is a 1984 fantasy-horror anthology with segments directed by David Allen, Charles Band, John Carl Buechler, Steven Ford, Peter Manoogian, Ted Nicolaou, and Rosemarie Turko.

Dolls is a 1987 horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and written by Ed Naha. Stephen Lee, Guy Rolfe, Hilary Mason, Ian Patrick Williams, and Bunty Bailey star.

Cellar Dweller is a 1987 horror film directed by John Carl Buechler and written by Don Mancini. Debrah Farentino, Brian Robbins, Pamela Bellwood, Vince Edwards, Jeffrey Combs, and Yvonne De Carlo star.

Arena is a 1989 sci-fi action film directed by Peter Manoogian and written by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo. Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Camp, and Claudia Christian star.

Robot Jox is a 1990 post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film directed by Stuart Gordon and written by Joe Haldeman. Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo, Robert Sampson, Danny Kamekona, Hilary Mason, and Michael Alldredge star.

The limited edition box set includes 15 postcards, five double-sided posters, Arrow Video membership card, and 80-page book featuring new writing by Lee Gambin, Dave Jay, Megan Navarro, and John Harrison plus archival material.

Each film is housed in its own Blu-ray case with reversible sleeves featuring original and new art by Ilan Sheady, packaged together inside a box with art by Laurie Greasley. Specs and special features can be found below.

The Dungeonmaster:

New 2K restoration from the original negative with original lossless mono audio

3 cut of the film: US theatrical version, pre-release version, and international version (under the title Ragewar)

Audio commentary with actor Jeffrey Byron, moderated by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain (new)

Interview with actor Jeffrey Byron (new)

Theatrical trailers

Image gallery

Computer programmer Paul Bradford is sucked into a fantasy world by Mestema, a demonic sorcerer in search of a worthy opponent.

Dolls:

New 2K restoration from the original interpositive with original lossless stereo audio

Audio commentary by David Decoteau, Empire alumnus and friend of Stuart Gordon (new)

Audio commentary by director Stuart Gordon and writer Ed Naha

Audio commentary by cast members Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Stephen Lee, Carrie Lorraine, and Ian Patrick Williams

Interview with editor Lee Percy (new)

Toys of Terror: The Making of Dolls - Interviews with Gordon, Yuzna, Purdy-Gordon, Williams, Charles Band, and Gabe Bartalos

Film-to-storyboard comparison

Theatrical trailers

Image gallery

A group of strangers find themselves forced to seek shelter at the isolated home of an old toymaker and his wife, only to find that the puppets and dolls have a vicious life of their own.

Cellar Dweller:

Additional picture restoration with original lossless stereo audio

Audio commentary by special make-up effects artist Michael Deak, moderated by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain (new)

Grabbed by the Ghoulies - An appreciation of John Carl Buechler by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain (new)

Interview with special make-up effects artist Michael Deak (new)

Original sales sheet

Original production notes

VHS trailer

Empire Pictures trailer reel

Image galleries

A comic book artist (Jeffrey Combs) with a penchant for the macabre takes inspiration from an ancient tome and unleashes an ancient evil.

Arena:

New 2K restoration from the last known surviving 35mm elements with original lossless stereo audio

Alternative full frame presentation

Audio commentary by director Peter Manoogian, moderated by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain (new)

Interview with co-writer Danny Bilson (new)

Interview with special make-up effects artist Michael Deak (new)

Theatrical trailer

Image gallery

In the far future of 4038, a short order cook becomes the first human in 50 years to compete in an intergalactic boxing event on the far side of the universe.

Robot Jox

New 2K restoration from the original negative with original lossless stereo audio

Audio commentary by director Stuart Gordon

Audio commentary by associate effects director Paul Gentry, mechanical effects artist Mark Rappaport, and stop-motion animator Paul Jessel

Interview with actor Gary Graham (new)

Interview with actor Anne-Marie Johnson (new)

Interview with actor Paul Koslo

The Scale of Battle: David Allen and the FX of Robot Jox - Interviews with visual effects artists Steve Burg, Yancy Calzeda, Paul Gentry, Kevin Kutchaver, Dennis Muren and John Vincent (new)

Original sales sheet

Original production notes

Theatrical trailer

Image galleries

Men and women pilot giant machines in gladiatorial battle to settle international disputes over territory.

Also included:

15 postcard-sized art cards

5 double-sided posters

Arrow Video “membership card”

80-page perfect-bound book featuring new writing by Lee Gambin, Dave Jay, Megan Navarro, and John Harrison plus archival material

[markcampbells]

75 Spotify wrapped (making you scroll 😂)

Oh, this is a fun one, and a perfect example of me never listening to new fucking music😂

"Never There (She Stabs)" - Strata

She stabs deep into me Am I too blind to see what this has done to me She stabs deep into me Am I too numb to feel this anymore You were the one who could save me You were the one who abandoned me

You see, when Baby Trai was young and deeply unaware of her sexuality, she was obsessed with Jennifer Garner's Elektra on a molecular level. I'm talking I loved the terrible 2003 Daredevil film, I am one of the only people on earth who saw Elektra in theaters, I owned and read the Elektra novelization and wrote the author a fan email when I was fourteen I had printed out and hung on my wall for a while*, and most importantly for this ask, I had the soundtrack.

The soundtrack that, despite it being twenty years old next year, I still listen to sometimes. My toxic trait is I cannot let go of the music of my teen years. (ask me about my emotional attachment to the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack) I have this song on one of my writing playlists, too, so it would have ended up on this list if I looped that one a few times a year. Anyway, anyone who ever feels shame about their music taste, just know that mine has not advanced one single iota from when I was thirteen.

(* The author, Yvonne Navarro, was perfectly lovely, and I'm sure I remain the only person to ever write to her in her entire career about the fucking Elektra novelization. The reason I printed out the email and had it hanging on my wall was that I mentioned I was fourteen and that I wanted to be a writer, and she replied that if I was only fourteen and writing such a well-spoken email, she could see it coming true. Yes, I keep a mental catalogue of every piece of validation I have ever received. I am nearly thirty-three and I still remember this email.)

[thotja]

thoughts on Predator: Eyes of the Demon

overall not as ground breaking as I was hoping for (granted im a weird transsexual fag IRL so i guess i have a lot of expectations that are unlikely to be met by the average sci fi author), but still some decent stories! i'd say 6.5-7/10 overall. rating for each of the stories under the cut (to keep this post from being like. a mile long):

• "The Titans" by Tim Lebbon – underwhelming plot but i enjoyed their poetic rivalry. 6/10 • "The Distance in Their Eyes" by Stephen Graham Jones – good little story with a twist. Didn't think much of it at first but I keep thinking about it. 9/10 • "Aftermath" by Bryan Thomas Schmidt – ENOUGH. OF. DUTCH. let the poor guy rest! that being said, the way we get a tantalizing 3 paragraphs or so of "baby's first hunt" is SO charming. would have been more if it was focused on HIM not dutch but it was ALL about Dutch so. 3/10 • "Proving Ground" by Linda D. Addison – yautja-centric! and focusing on political maneuvering! yippee! sadly still kinda whatever. 7/10 • "Lion of the Himalayas" by Ammar Habib – human focused but a much needed change of setting and at least was unique. One of the better stories imo! 8.5/10 • "The Fix is In" by Jonathan Maberry – another capitalist-military future story (i hate this genre btw) but i'm obsessed with the single surviving yautja tricking a group of humans just to hijack their ship since his was irrevocably fucked. kudos to you, bro! 5.5/10 • "Bitter Hunt" by Kim May – this one just raised too many questions it didn't have the length to answer. why was your son going around killing women and children??? at least u killed him yourself. i would be sooooo embarrassed in her shoes. i would say if it got more space to flesh itself out, it could've been great. but this version we get is solidly a 6.5/10 • "Field Trip" by Robert Greenberger – THE INFAMOUS BIRTH AND NURSING STORY!!!!!! i think i have the most beef with the world building in this story out of all them. like. why the fuck were her novices such misogynists??? hello?????? like ZERO respect / understanding of reproduction. u were a baby once too you know?! funny setup, annoying teen boy type behavior, questionable mom choices too (if she didn't want to have da baby on earth then why sign up for this job so close to your due date?), but ultimately, the reason i chose this book in the first place. so 10/10 for getting me, keeping me, and making me mad. • "Cannon Fodder" by Gini Koch – girl power! would have been better if they were lesbians at the end. 6/10 • "Little Miss Nightmare" by Peter Briggs – I like this writer's style the most out of all the other authors featured. I thought his human characters were at least interesting. AND the yautja featured was more of an anthropologist vs being exclusively there to trophy people. so she had more curiosity. I think a lack of curiosity in people's yautja characters is the most disservice they can do to them. 9.5/10 • "The Trophy" by A.R. Redington – NOT HOW IT WOULD'VE GONE DOWN. TAKING LOTSA POINTS FOR THAT. 2/10 (objectively not a bad story. but makes me mad) • "The Monster" by Michael Kogge – hey I've been there! really funny to have bigfoot fight predator, but underwhelming-ly written. 6/10 • "Ghost Story" by Joshua Pruett – I suspect you are not a geologist. 5/10 • "Sly Dark in the Daylight" by Yvonne Navarro – really funny to have a Bad Blood be the main yautja in the story. human centric of course but at least it was a different setup than typical "yautja hunting humans" type thing. Kinda addicted to the ending but also not how it would've ended in my opinion. 6/10 • "Dead Man's Switch" by Scott Sigler – yeah yeah engineered super beast hunting facility attracts yautja. of course. 6/10

[oveliagirlhaditright]

hello there,

have you read Buffy: Tempted Champions by Yvonne Navarro?

I actually have not! I feel it's one of the few Buffy tie-in novels that I haven't gotten around to yet.

But I feel like the following site

(that I've used for information on all of the Buffy and Angel tie-in novels) made it not sound that interesting. Because all it said about it was: "A deadly fighter arrives, willing to kill both humans and vampires."

But going to the book's official wiki page

and reading a little about it--but not too much, because I don't want a lot spoiled for me, of course--has me so interested in this book now! It sounds to die for! (I won't say what I read here, because I don't want to spoil those things for anyone else. Unless anyone replies to this and wants me to. I suppose they can also always go to the link to the wiki I provided.)

So thank you so much for this ask, friend! I'll definitely have to get this book sooner rather than later now. And I'll have to make a post about all of my thoughts on it when I'm done reading it:)

And if you want to send an ask my way again when I'm done reading the book, please do!

Edit: I have now, if you want to send any asks my way!

[moorbrookehq]

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[goodcryunicorn]

24 // Kate Morgan

Name: Kate Morgan Age: 35 Relationship: widow (verse depending) open for ships Sexuality: Bisexual Job: CIA agent Residence: London, England, UK Faceclaims: Yvonne Strahovski Blog written by: @goodcryunicorn3​​

Kate Morgan was a CIA agent based in London, England, and the wife of disgraced CIA officer Adam Morgan, until his apparent suicide. During Live Another Day, she was scheduled to be transferred back to the United States over her husband's traitorous status, but was re-instated after confirming that Jack Bauer was up to something in London. After learning that Jack was trying to thwart the assassination of President James Heller, Kate teamed up with him to stop Margot Al-Harazi from using hijacked drones. Then she discovered that Adam was framed by Steve Navarro for selling secrets to China when Navarro stole the Defense override module and helped Jack try to stop Cheng Zhi from triggering a war between U.S. and China. Then Kate went to save President Heller's daughter Audrey Boudreau from Cheng's men, but failed when Audrey was killed by a second gunman, which led to Kate's resignation from the CIA. Kate was the wife of CIA agent Adam Morgan, who was indicted for selling U.S. state secrets to the Chinese, despite protesting his innocence, and was placed in protective custody while awaiting trial. Prosecutors intended to try Morgan for treason, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. It's because of this that CIA agent and Kate's colleague Erik Ritter held a strong dislike for her, believing that she was well aware of her husband's alleged treason, despite her pleas of innocence. For two months after Adam was accused of being a traitor, Kate was questioned by the CIA but was eventually cleared of wrong-doing. Despite being cleared, she was scheduled for a transfer back to America on the week of Day 9.

VERSES

[heartofhubris-a]

ok so i usually forget projects the second I put them online but if anyone is wondering

The species 1995 novelization audiobook was never published in the european/uk market

which means it's probably only here in the usa

which means we could end up boots on the ground to find this fucking cassette set

anyway does anyone know how to/if we can digitize cassettes

[the-final-sentence]

Then… Detonation.

Yvonne Navarro, from “And White Splits the Night" 

[hoedameron]

always the spn novels at the scene of the crime

[danceoftheday]

Performed by: George Chakiris, Carole D’Andrea, Rudy Del Campo, Jose De Vega, Suzie Kaye, Nobuko Miyamoto, Rita Moreno, Nick Navarro, Jay Norman, Jaime Rogers, Larry Roquemore, Andre Tayir, Robert E. Thompson, Gina Trikonis, Gus Trikonis, Eddie Verso, and Yvonne Wilder

Number: “America”

Choreographer: Jerome Robbins

Style: Broadway

From: West Side Story (1961)

[diminuel]

I read one of the Supernatural tie in novels, “The Usual Suspects” by Yvonne Navarro.

It was better than I thought it would be (in terms of character presentation) though there were a couple of things I didn’t love about the story in general (what the monsters were, the ones who lived VS the ones who died, some logical errors/ confusing bits).

And even though the blurb in the beginning mentioned that it was set in a specific time frame between two episodes, there were maybe two references to the canon S10 Mark of Cain story line.

And nobody ever mentions Cas!

Anyway. Has anyone else read some other tie in novels? Any worth reading? I went on the publisher’s website and saw that there were only two other books published after this one; one in 2018 and one in 2019.

[brokehorrorfan]

Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey collects fifteen original stories from the expanded Alien vs. Predator universe. It’s available now in paperback, e-book, and audio book via Titan Books.

The 448-page anthology is edited by Jonathan Maberry and Bryan Thomas Schmidt. Maberry also co-wrote a story with Predators actor Louis Ozawa about his character Hanzo’s brother facing the threat of both the Yautja and the Xenomorphs.

Other contributors include Schmidt, David Barnett, Roshni “Rush” Bhatia, Maurice Broaddus, Curtis C. Chen, Delilah S. Dawson, Mira Grant, Susanne L. Lambdin, Jess Landry, Yvonne Navarro, E.C. Myers, Scott Sigler, Chris Ryall, and Steven L. Sears.

The ultimate hunters, the Predators, are pitted against their ultimate prey, the Xenomorphs, with humans caught in the middle! Taking place on Earth and in distant space, these tales have been crafted by a who’s who of today’s most talented authors of the fantastic,

With 15 new and original stories, this first-of-its-kind anthology is inspired by the events of the original Aliens vs. Predators movies, graphic novels, and novels.

Pre-order Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey.

[trials-era-sam]

Hi, I saw your post about the SPN book "The usual sacrifices", and I was wondering what you think of the book. Is it good? Would you recommend it? I know that I love all the Tim Wagoner books, but this one is from Yvonne Navarro, and I haven't read anything from her, yet. Also: there’s a cave on the cover. Is a significant part of this book playing in a cave? That would be a huge plus for me, since I love caves.

Have a nice day! 🤗

Hi! So the book’s all right, but it definitely isn’t my favorite. Like you I really enjoy the Tim Wagoner ones and I wouldn’t say this one is as good. For most of the book I feel like Sam and Dean are just... there, like they could just be any other monster hunters named Sam and Dean and there isn’t a lot of effort in terms of characterization (although I’m only saying this about the Winchesters - the author definitely puts a lot of effort into her OCs ). Then towards the end there’s some of the “just leave me here”/“hell no!” stuff that we’ve come to expect from the brothers, and I was like “Finally. There they are.” :)

The cave definitely is a pretty big part of the story! From the beginning you know the mystery centers around it, and the climax of the story takes place there, too.

So I think you could probably give it a try! While I don’t think it’s the best of the bunch it is still a pretty fun read, and if you like caves I would recommend it :)

Thank you, hope you have a nice day as well! 😊

[weirdletter]

Tales of the Lost Volume 1: We all Lose Something, edited by Eugene Johnson and Steve Dillon, Things in the Well Publications, 2019. Cover art by Francois Vaillancourt, interior art by Luke Spooner, info: thingsinthewell.com.

Compiled and co-edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Eugene Johnson and Things in the Well series editor Steve Dillon, Tales of the Lost comprises an impressive list of short stories, a few of which are reprints from famous names such as F. Paul Wilson, Tim Waggoner, Yvonne Navarro, and Stephen Graham Jones. This stunning cover art was commissioned from Francois Vaillancourt, and the anthology is completed by a Christina Sng poem, specially-commissioned artwork from the distinctive brush of Luke Spooner, and eleven new stories from an assortment of award-winning writers, all with the underlying theme of Loss…

Contents: introduction by S.G. Browne In the End, Only the Gods by Christina Sng Bury Me in Tar and Twine by Jess Landry Husks by Paul Moore Desiderium by Ben Monroe Monsters by Stephen Graham Jones Unity Endangered by Lisa Morton Deep Down, the Lake of a Thousand Graves by Eric J. Guignard Out of Darkness by Chris Mason Unhaunted by David Wellington The Mystics by John Palisano A Glimpse of the Ankou by Kevin J. Anderson Lost Gator by Jeff Strand Remembering What He Was by Yvonne Navarro Going Home by Tim Waggoner Losing Face by Lee Murray Feelings by F. Paul Wilson

[profmorbius]

Posted a review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3 #5: Paleo by Yvonne Navarro on my blog. Read it here.

tl;dr – Intense and interesting