scare campaign is a 2016 australian horror film written and directed by colin and cameron cairnes , and starring meegan warner , ian meadows and olivia dejonge .

scare campaign

scare campaign is touring the country with special event screenings . follow their facebook page for details .
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labor ' s emphasis on health has culminated in its scare campaign claiming the government would
privatise medicare
.
as the synopsis pretty well sums up , we have “scare campaign” , a tv series lagging in ratings and dropping amidst the online era . a similar show called “scare tactics” , which actually kills its victims with a slew of interesting weapons directly attached to cameras , is drawing in the viewers and membership , and the producers of “scare campaign” want some of that membership pie .
scare campaign is showing at special events around australia , with international screenings to be announced on the film ' s facebook page . prepare for the amusing horror .
good : - acting . - special effects . - the way taken by
scare ' s campaign
as a tv show ( with good plot - twists ) .
scare campaign is a 2016 australian supernatural horror feature film written and directed by colin and cameron cairnes ( 100 bloody acres ) and producer by julie ryan ( red dog ) .
despite the film’s central premise focusing on prank scares and trying to get the old gray matter wondering just who’s pranking who , scare campaign also has some effective scares up its sleeves .
scare campaign is basically “scare tactics” meets saw . a small group of actors , cameramen and producers have been filming a television show called “scare campaign” for the past five years . while the show is still popular on its network , the ratings and viewership are beginning to slide after so many years on air and it seems that a renewal may not be in the cards . it doesn’t help that a bizarre band of snuff filmmakers are releasing content online that is stealing viewers from “scare campaign” and hindering its plight against cancellation . the cast and crew of “scare campaign” are given one more episode to up their game if they want to see season six . they find the location , they find the story and they find the mark and it’s lights , camera , action . only this time , things don’t go quite as planned and the prank show becomes a night of terror that will make television history .
the concept for scare campaign , which released its terrifying trailer in march , came to the duo as they were hunting for inspiration on the internet after their first film , the brothers told mashable australia .
scare campaign , the upcoming horror feature film from writers and directors colin & cameron cairnes ( 100 bloody acres ) and producer julie ryan ( red dog ) , has unveiled its key cast as production begins this week in victoria , australia .
scare campaign has a really cool premises which has the potential to actually entertain and say something at the same time . foregoing on the latter is easy to forgive , but clumsily stepping over most opportunities to do the first is a shame .
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regardless of the above , scare campaign was a decent attempt at making a more mainstream horror film , something australian cinema doesn’t do often . i’m not saying all our films are crap , but australian cinema tends to veer toward two extremes , either safe ( and boring ) dramas with the same 5 actors , or extreme ozploitation genre fare , with only a few films straddling the middle ground . scare campaign was a refreshing change , even though it’s not the greatest film out there .
some managers of political action committees deride colleagues who help retire campaign debts for hedging their bets and ' ' ducking the tough choices ' ' during a campaign , as bernadette budde of the business - industry political action committee put it .
for producer julie ryan , scare campaign marks her second feature with the cairnes brothers after 100 bloody acres , “ i’m very excited to be making another film with the cairnes brothers and fans of 100 bloody acres are not going to be disappointed . the brothers are original storytellers and this one has scares a plenty with a number of twists to keep people guessing” says ryan . scare campaign also reunites key crew from 100 bloody acres including director of photography john brawley , and sfx and production designer justin dix .
this is the concept of scare campaign , by australian filmmakers cameron and colin cairnes . it follows their feature film debut , 100 bloody acres in 2012 , which has the dubious honour of being one of the most illegally downloaded movies in australia at the time .
when my only complaints are that all of the characters are too pretty and all of the actors are too good , you know that scare campaign is a really good flick . and it has one of the best face chop off scenes ! and it has tremendous sequel potential . i could keep raving , but i think you get the picture by now . scare campaign is scary , tricky and tense . it’s the ultimate compilation of subgenres , themes and plot twists . you just need to see it . final score : 9 out of 10 .
serious when it needs to be and hilarious when it needs to be , scare campaign is a delightfully blood - soaked genre treat from writers and directors cameron and colin cairnes , with a strong cast , fantastic practical gore effects , well - crafted scares , and witty humor .
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when i found out scare campaign was an australian film and written by the same duo ( brothers , cam and colin cairnes ) who penned and directed the rather amusing comedy / horror 1000 bloody acres , i was pretty interested in seeing this more straightforward attempt at the horror genre .
unlike other countries , parties in germany cannot put up campaign posters or run tv ads until 6 weeks before the election . but on august 13 , the campaign floodgates open and no lamp post will be safe from the cardboard visages of each party ' s main candidates .
should you watch it ? if you are a fan of slasher horror , then give scare campaign a go , you will find entertainment value within its runtime . if you are australian , then support the australian horror scene any way you can . shiva knows we need more mainstream horror made down under .
the sundquist party is helping to kick off a whole new stage in what has become a year - round preoccupation in washington , the raising of campaign funds . now that the fall campaign is over , candidates are eager to retire their debts so they can start stashing away cash for 1984 .
in week two of the campaign , labor immediately sought to capitalise on australian federal police raids investigating leaks from national broadband network ( nbn ) co .
like the babadook , wolf creek , lake mungo , black water , wyrmwood : road of the dead , and other local horror favourites from the last decade , scare campaign hopes to build a reputation that will see it remembered long after all the bodies have been carved and incinerated… did i mention somebody gets incinerated ? because they do .
scare campaign has received funding from screen australia and film victoria , with soundfirm also on board as an investor . “we are privileged to be the beneficiaries of screen australia and film victoria’s support” says cairnes , “and hope that they continue to display the courage shown in supporting the distinctive genre films we and other filmmakers seek to make . ”
with an unflinching new “reality” show ruling the rating roost by honing in on the screenager generation’s lust for extreme “entertainment , ” the ‘scare campaign’ prank show crew receive an ultimatum from their over - ambitchous producer : either wise up and “snap it in two” in the next episode and outshine the “new vids on the block” or get heave - hoed .
the cairnes brothers return with another solid genre effort in scare campaign . it ' s a funny , gory delight that knows when to take its horror seriously and when to dish out the laughs . this is every bit as good as their excellent debut 100 bloody acres , perhaps even better on a technical level ( though i think i still prefer their previous effort for its concept ) . my few quibbles with scare campaign are the same that i had with 100 bloody acres and more to do with my personal tastes than a reflection on its craft — the performances were a little too big for me and aesthetically it seemed too clean . its twists are easy to spot , but that didn ' t really…
from light poles to cctv cameras and netball courts , the prime minister has been accused of running for
mayor of australia
during a low - key campaign .
most committees will contribute in a campaign only to challengers who have a good chance of winning , but after an upset they often show a remarkable capacity for hindsight .
the name of film student movie producer in the horror movie cut ( 2000 ) was hester ryan ( sarah kants ) . the production manager on cut ( 2000 ) was julie ryan , who went on to become a film producer , and has produced such horror movies as scare campaign ( 2016 ) and 100 bloody acres ( 2012 ) . see more »
during week three of the election campaign , deputy prime minister barnaby joyce announced a $ 555 - million package in concessional loans for dairy farmers affected by recent milk price cuts .
it featured a drawing of merkel , amused and gleefully observing the excited commotion surrounding her challenger ' s candidacy . the accompanying speech bubble featured the words :
come on schulzi , scare me !
on my list of movies that truly disappointed and did not live up to their hype . perhaps the sequel that they lamely set up will do a better job on it’s campaign trail .
after australia ' s longest election campaign in half a century , we ' re down to the final days . what are the key policies the major parties have pledged over the past seven weeks ?
pasca the babadook , saya mulai tertarik dengan horor - horor keluaran negeri kangguru , australia . pun dengan horor satu ini , dengan premis yang sangat menarik : tentang sebuah variety tv show yang mengerjai korbannya dengan prank horor bernama scare campaign . acara ini cukup diminati dan telah mencapai 5 musim penayangan . cerita kemudian bergulir ke emma , salah satu pelakon di acara tersebut , yang mulai jenuh dan merasa bersalah terhadap korban - korbannya . dan…
this election campaign is being fought under the shadow of a looming decision from the fair work commission ( fwc ) which is deciding whether to cut sunday penalty rates to the same level as saturday rates .
for filmmaking brothers cameron and colin cairnes , scare campaign is also a departure of sorts from their debut feature 100 bloody acres . that film was far more comedic , relying on gags about rebecca gibney’s masturbation fantasies as much as the gory bloodletting . their latest is more of a good ol’ fashioned slasher flick ; one that wouldn’t feel out of place in the genre’s local heyday of the 1980s during the era that was later affectionately coined as ‘ozploitation’ .
a group of people run a tv show where they set up locations to scare people . things go horribly wrong when the producer wants them to get darker as they set up an asylum to spook the new . . . see more »
popular prank tv show , scare campaign , has been entertaining audiences for the last five years with its mix of old school scares and hidden camera fun . but as we enter a new age of online tv the producers find themselves up against a new hard edged web series which makes their show look decidedly quaint . it’s time to up the ante , but will the team go too far this time , and are they about to prank the wrong guy ?
popular prank tv show , scare campaign , has been entertaining audiences for the last 5 years with its mix of old school scares and hidden camera fun . but as we enter a new age of online tv the producers find themselves up against a new hard edged web series which makes their show look decidedly quaint . it ' s time to up the ante , but will the team go too far this time , and are they about to prank the wrong guy ?
popular prank tv show , scare campaign , has been entertaining audiences for the last 5 years with its mix of old school scares and hidden camera fun . but as we enter a new age of online tv , the producers find themselves up against a new hard edged web series which makes their show look decidedly quaint . it s time to up the ante , but will the team go too far this time , and are they about to prank the wrong guy ?
inspired in part by colin’s history of working on a hidden camera prank show — on singapore television no less — as well as plenty of research into the punking genre , the brothers maintain they forged their story without direct links to any one event . still , it’s hard to watch scare campaign and not recognise the commentary on low - brow modern television with its constantly raising stakes and shameless need to plunder society’s basest emotions . it’s i’m a celebrity with bloody power tools .
aside from the masterfully creative script , scare campaign ‘s second biggest strength is its built in suspense . every scene has some level of suspense , and it fluctuates and changes to keep you on your toes throughout the entire film . you’re left enthralled and wondering will the prank go as planned , what’s real and what’s fake , who is going to survive and what plot twist is about to happen next . its heart pounding , undeniable suspense is going to reach into the viewer and pull an emotion out of them , in this case one that is geared in the direction of the cast and crew’s survival . they’re marginally enjoyable and this isn’t the type of movie where you hope something happens to them . this means that when one of them bites the dust it’s not a cheering moment , it’s a further plunge into the quirky , weird dimension of terror that is scare campaign . it’s gripping and emotional and heinous and you’re going to love it !
the campaign on social media - tagged as justice for aizawl football club , india ' s national champion - aims at garnering a million signatures before the petition is submitted to the prime minister and the aiff for necessary steps .
the campaign says aizawl , a small team from mizoram which won the i - league in just their second appearance in the competition , does not have the resources to pay the huge franchise fee of the indian super league .
popular prank tv show , scare campaign , has been entertaining audiences for the last 5 years with its mix of old school scares and hidden camera fun . but as we enter a new age of online tv the producers find themselves up against a new hard edged web series which makes their show look decidedly quaint . it’s time to up the ante , but will the team go too far this time , and are they about to prank the wrong guy ? ( source : imdb )
synopsis : popular tv prank show , scare campaign , has been entertaining audiences for the last five years with its mix of old school scares and hidden camera fun . but as we enter a new age of online tv , the producers find themselves up against a new hard - edged web series which makes their show look decidedly quaint . it ' s time to up the ante , but will the team go too far this time , and are they about to prank the wrong guy ?
a group of people run a tv show where they set up locations to scare people . things go horribly wrong when the producer wants them to get darker as they set up an asylum to spook the new target : a creepy guy who used to work there .
since it launched last week , it’s found its way to thousands of players’ smartphones , and while no known numbers have been published yet , we can just see how popular it is thanks to the response towards its first global twitter campaign .
and , being the type of tv show “scare campaign” is in the film , you can imagine just how many “hidden” cameras had to be set up around the place . all hail adam white’s editing ( not forgetting the cairnes brothers , who assisted him in the process ) as i can’t even begin to imagine the immense task involved to stitch all the footage together in such a fashion that keeps the film entertaining but at the same time only shows just enough to keep some of the wool still pulled over the audience’s eyes .
the campaign , initiated from portal urltoken , garnered over 3 , 000 signatures within a few hours of it going viral on the social media and was still counting . like most leading clubs of the northeast , aizawl too have a huge fan following across the region .
earlier , a fan of the club had died during its reception ceremony at the assam rifles ground on monday . the fans , meanwhile , have launched a massive online signature campaign to pressurise the aiff into including the club in the top tier of the proposed new league .
die prämisse das der jäger schnell zum gejagten ( bzw . in diesem fall vom pranker zum geprankten falls es das wort gibt ) wird ist wahrlich nichts neues . entsprechend absehbar ist dann leider auch der größte teil von scare campaign , erst in den letzten 20 minuten beginnt der eigentliche horror , dann aber angenehm wuchtig und die killer sind mit coolen masken und waffen versehen . die splatter - fx sind für das schmale budget recht ordentlich und handmade , nur leider ist der film dann auch schon wieder vorbei als atmosphäre aufkommt . nett für einen sonntag nachmittag , aber nichts was länger im gedächtnis bleibt .
taking shows like “scare tactics” and “room 401” way beyond the comfort zone , the minds that brought us the fantastic 100 bloody acres are back , this time blending reality tv with satiric horror - comedy trappings to serve up an ingeniously structured little flick , replete with lashings of caustic comedy and deftly disciplined amounts of barbaric brutality .
so , given only their final episode for the series to pull off a miracle or face being axed , the small crew conjure up a “campaign” involving an old mental institution and former “client” of said institution . needless to say , things don’t go as scripted as the director would hope .
running for office often involves a big financial risk . lured by the desperate hope that an extra television spot or campaign mailing will make the difference in a close race , many candidates borrow heavily at the last minute . but the gambling windows in the capital only pay off on winners .
about half of the political action committees reserve some campaign funds for debt retirement , and almost all of that goes to winners . a spokesman for ampac , the political arm of the american medical association , is ' ' right up front ' ' about his committee ' s refusal to help losers .
on thursday , both parties will be holding receptions so that the 81 newly elected house members , who will be in town for orientation sessions , can meet the managers of the major political action committees . these managers control millions of dollars in campaign cash , and the reception scene is likely to resemble a college mixer .
during his hard - fought campaign against senator harrison schmitt , republican of new mexico , jeff bingaman was occasionally approached by managers of political action committees who admitted that they could not afford to alienate mr . schmitt , a subcommittee chairman on the appropriations committee . the managers promised to return , however , if mr . bingaman won ; since he did , calls and letters have been flowing in .
trust is the currency with which good policy is repaid these days . the germans , it seems , are more fearful of the trumps of the world than with the topic of refugees - which has quieted considerably . they fear the erosion of international cooperation , the denigration of the eu , national egoism and chauvinism . whether orban , putin , erdogan or trump , brexit or the usa ' s new isolationism - such topics anger , annoy and scare voters . the only thing that can help is … yes , you guessed it : merkel ' s trademark gesture - the merkel rhombus , which has itself become a symbol of projecting
calm
and
steadiness .
marcus responds by setting up a prank that even his star and girlfriend emma ( meegan warner ) doesn ' t know about , in which a demented stooge reacts by going on a bloody rampage . but there are new surprises to come . . .
all the supports work to underpin the film ' s effect ; one miscalculation in casting would unhook us from the film . well paced and technically excellent ( notable in the fine prosthetics , hair and make up ) , the film surfs on a powerful soundscape and clever camerawork - both as the film we see and as images captured by the hidden cameras used for the prank show . the subtext which warns against escalating the reality show content for bloodthirsty fans is evident .
writer / directors colin and cameron cairnes ( of 100 bloody acres fame ) show flair and brio ; little wonder the film is attracting wide attention and acclaim .
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the crew of a reality tv prank show facing dwindling ratings decides to up the ante by setting up a terrifying prank in an abandoned asylum . things go horribly wrong when they prank the wrong guy . brothers colin and cameron cairnes ( 100 bloody acres ) deliver a night of blood soaked terror full of twists and turns that will satisfy any gore hound .
there are some slasher type scences , but it ' s a good solid movie . it ' s more of a prank film with a slasher ending . i would definitly recomend .
i really like the plot . right when it seemed to be like any other movie , it had some twists and turns . it was executed very well . the acting was good , too . i thought it was also pretty suspenseful . i was pleasantly surprised about this one .
good acting fun to watch but the twist i figured out mid way through . still worth a rent .
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i don’t want to go too much more than that with fears of spoiling the film , however , having said this , the film pretty much spoils itself within the first act , giving their big reveal / twist away rather blatantly . this resulted in me yelling “ahhh , derrr , fred ! ” at the screen when they attempted to shock and awe me with the “twist” in the third act . a disappointing aspect to an otherwise rather solid film .
on to the effects , which were great . the practical gore used was plentiful and well done . though not as bloody as i would have hoped ( the half head severing scene really needed more blood ) , i was impressed overall . cinematography was solid with nothing too flamboyant attempted . i appreciated the lighting too as no scene was overly dark so everything was easily viewable .
would i watch this again ? i wouldn’t go out of my way to watch it of my own volition , but if a mate wanted to watch it with me , i wouldn’t say no .
i am really looking forward to the cairnes’ brothers next effort , and applaud them for attempting films which breakout of the norm within australian cinema .
ps : for those who haven’t seen 1000 bloody acres , give it a go , it’s like tucker and dale vs evil’s australian cousin ! not the same level of course , but still , a bloody decent effort .
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what comes next is a film of two contrasting parts : the first playing out like an extravagantly playful and insightful “behind - the - scenes” look into the tv show’s fastidious prank planning – whilst poking a self - aware finger in the eye of genre conventions as we get to see the secrets that go into designing a horror set . and then , much like the rise of leslie vernon did before it , it catapults itself into a slasher formula with dogged ferocity whilst astutely retaining the pitch black comedy tone it sets right from the film’s bravura , j - horror - hued curtain - raising prank . that’s about as much of an explanation as i’m prepared to share as the film relies almost entirely on its clever curveballs once the film crew ends up impaling itself on the very killer hook it set out to create .
when the film pitches the first of its many curveballs , i had a “please tell me i haven’t fathomed it out already” moment and , even though i ended up being right , it was great to see how that particular twist played out . that said , things aren’t as telegraphed as the cairnes brothers will have you believe .
as luck would have it , the siblings know exactly how to push the audience’s buttons and are well aware of what we’ve seen before , teasing our knowledge of the genre with adroitly executed axis shifts that keep the proceedings percolating at a really healthy clip . then , when the film careens towards its practical fx gorestravaganza finale and everything turns sixteen different flavors of slasher hell , the amusement never lets up as the audience is “sort of” in on the joke by this time , but there’s still that lingering question of who we can still trust , something we all know made scream the big hit it became in 1996 .
cleverly rendered sound design , predominantly made up of diegetic noise , radically intensifies the whole haunted house vibe going on and then , to top it all off , even though it’s apparent the cairnes weren’t dead set on doling out gore galore , when the real carnage does rear its ugly head , it’s stunningly violent and the practical effects are , quite literally , mind - blowing .
it may only be march right now but i’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s going to take something pretty special to knock this one off my end of year faves list . it really is that much fun and i hope it catches fire on this year’s festival circuit as it absolutely deserves to .
the joke’s on you if you miss this taut , severely self - aware and legitimately funny “boodunnit . ”
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the movie stars olivia dejonge ( the visit , hiding ) , meegan warner , ian meadows , josh quong tart , cassandra mcgrath ( wolf creek ) , john brumpton ( the loved ones ) , patrick harvey , steve mouzakis , jason geary , sigrid thornton .
the film was previewed at special event screenings around australia from march 12th , 2017 , beginning with a showing at beechworth lunatic asylum where it was shot .
in north america , the film was released digitally on october 24 , 2017 , via studio71 .
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is set around a prank tv show , which is desperate for ratings in the face of a new edgy web series that is making them look old - fashioned .
it ' s up to the producers to up the ante , and they ' ve come up with an elaborate stunt that will shock . only this time , they ' ve gone too far .
so as you do , we took to youtube for some inspiration and we came across some pretty intense stuff .
there were some pretty extreme stunts from places like brazil , for instance ,
cameron added .
after scouring youtube for weeks , the brothers finally settled on an horrific plan .
eventually we thought , what would happen if you pranked the wrong guy ? that was the idea we took to our producer ,
colin said .
working with their producer julie ryan for months on the idea , the brothers scouted for a location before writing any of the screenplay , searching high and low for somewhere that would help bring the horror to life .
, built in victoria during the 1800s . it was the fourth of its kind to built in the state and closed more than 20 years ago , in 1995 . seemingly u
our art director didn ' t have to do much to it ,
colin said of the location , featuring decrepit walls and isolated surrounds , the layout a labyrinth of endless corridors and foreboding cells .
despite the eerie location , the cast and crew stayed on location during filming for a period of around three weeks . what better way to keep everyone in character , than housing them one of australia ' s most haunted locations ?
there are stories from the crew , i hear ,
cameron said .
the art department were packing up after a late shoot , and say they spotted a ghost or apparition in the cells .
but nothing really happened to me , i ' m afraid . i wish something did happen .
rohan , played by josh quong tart , is the conservatively - dressed maniac of the film , an unassuming psychopath that is very much a legacy of horror films .
he ' s as much of a horror fan as we are ,
colin said , regarding quong tart .
so he really took that role on . i remember they had busloads of ghost tours that came through , and he gave them a fair bit of a fright in his character .
the duo said they aren ' t trying to emulate bloody , uncompromising horrors that australians have become infamous for , such as wolf creek and saw . instead the brothers wanted to find a balance between fright and laughter .
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it ' s ' i ' m a celebrity ' with bloody power tools .
it’s the nasty , gruesome , and wickedly entertaining new aussie horror movie that is as far removed from the moody , elegant chills of the babadook as you could possibly get . it’s the movie where someone doesn’t just get decapitated , they get the top half of their head sliced off exposing the gooey brains inside . it’s the movie where somebody doesn’t just get stabbed with a butcher’s knife , they get chainsawed up the guts . it’s grisly and gory and full of twists that should make horror fiends deliriously giddy .
“it just so happened in the last year or two that that pranking and hoax phenomenon has really started to explode , ” they say . and certainly , when i raise the possibility of david cronenberg’s 1983 snuff thriller videodrome as a possible inspiration , they don’t dismiss it — “we’re big fans of that film” — while also citing psycho , richard attenborough’s performance in the 1971 british crime drama 10 rillington place , and the groundbreaking peeping tom from 1960 . “that one was always in the back of our heads… literally in the back of some characters’ heads , ” they say with a laugh .
100 bloody acres , the brothers’ 2012 feature debut , found brief international fame as one of the most pirated downloaded movies in the world . after successfully premiering at the melbourne international film festival , it was over a year until the film received a theatrical release in australia at which point it had already found its way to american vod and subsequently spread through torrents around the globe .
this time around , the cairnes’ are keen to take matters into their own hands .
“our miff premiere was such a great , sold - out experience , and then nothing happened for ages . that was really frustrating . so this time around it’s a matter of getting the ball rolling ourselves . we’re finding with a very limited budget that we’re able to reach a lot of people through the power of social media . it’s something we maybe didn’t have a handle on last time around . if we could just do whatever we can to create interest and demand that’s a really good starting point . hopefully with the likes of [ event screening provider ] tugg things will start changing . ”
the brothers are optimistic about australian horror generally — “our strike rate is pretty good and our reputation overseas is really strong” — but they suggest low population doesn’t allow these films to break out the way they do in places like america and asia . both regions have a much stronger tradition with horror and going to see it in cinemas . there’s also the hint of apathy on the part of cinema operators ; the brothers say they’re banking on “friendly exhibitors that are open to genre films” to change that . however , after the wildly acclaimed and award - winning the babadook could only find the most meagre of local box office returns to the bewilderment of everyone , the brothers are looking to international distribution to help find real , lasting success .
“we like to think that there’s commercial potential in what we do . we just started doing these event screenings around australia and it’s been building a bit of a steam . i think that might be helping us with a bit of international sales . fortunately , there is an appetite for this kind of film overseas , and i think in the long run the returns can come . ”
thanks to some good ol’ fashioned fun and frights , the cairnes brothers might just get it .
glenn dunks is a freelance writer from melbourne . he also works as an editor and a film festival programmer while tweeting too much @ glenndunks .
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hey , hey , hey kids ! we’ve got ourselves another horror film that is being touted as truly terrifying . hailing from the land of oz , it is being lumped together with
appears to be enjoying a nice run of winning awards at movie festivals and , thus far , it has great word of mouth . from the directing duo of cameron and colin cairnes , who enjoyed success with their 2012 film
, this movie looks great on paper and i can’t help but wonder if seeing this movie in a theatre with audience reaction would have greatly improved my ultimate feelings towards it . unfortunately , i shall be shelving
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it takes a lot of time to get going , spending far too much time on the build up and foreshadowing the shit out of the first act . trust me , everything you think will happen , happens , making most moments fall flat and killing most potential suspense along the way .
but still . there is this certain energy the cairnes brothers bring , much like they did in their previous effort , that is rather infectious . for every missed opportunity there is a moment of fantastic gore or dark deadpan humour .
not working : - the predictable final plot - twists . . . ( i was expecting for all that
surprises
. . . ) .
balancing a good line between serious horror and comedy without going too far in either way , wit and brevity work well here , creating a quick and effective slice of entertainment and media commentary without requiring you to think about it all too much and notice how slight it may end up being . just missing some extra spark somewhere to give it a little more
oomph
to make it more memorable .
when pranks gone wrong . opening scene yang cukup menarik dan sisi sadisnya yang lumayan memuaskan , namun beberapa pemain yang aktingnya belum natural dan juga jalan cerita yang hampir semua ketebak . but still enjoy to watch .
one of my favorite newer films . a gory twist to the typical found footage / fake tv show genre . a + + +
the purge meets saw ? ? ? ? too many plot twists i like the masks and the girl from the visit but honestly i didnt feel anything .
un bon concept de départ , malheureusement amoindri par un scénario brouillon , un certain manque d ' ambition ( le film dure 80 minutes , générique compris ) et par une approche trop distanciée et post - moderne . la volonté d ' accumuler les retournements de situation finit par établir une distance psychologique qui n ' est dès lors plus jamais abolie .
at the risk of alienating myself from two more melbourne based film makers : this is shit .
are we sure the cairnes brothers aren ' t originally from tasmania ? i haven ' t watched 100 bloody acres but this doesn ' t exactly provide me with incentive .
i only really watched this because it was shot at beechworth insane asylum , a place i visited recently and found compelling . in the end the beechworth institution is merely a backdrop for the proceedings and none of its rich history of inmates and stories has any bearing whatsoever . that ' s a shame , because what we get instead is a bunch of ugly human beings torturing other people i could care less about via reality tv .
[ masked man ]
but before we really fuck with your minds , we ' d like to thank you for being such compelling victims . our analytics tell us , audience retention is so much better when there is real conflict .
[ marcus ]
you need a fucking algorithm to tell you that ?
[ masked man ]
this is how the new entertainment works !
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creepy atmospheres are replacing tense action , and the monsters are more unbeatable than ever .
horror videogames have changed rapidly over the last decade or so . it is almost as if
’s transition towards the third person action genre triggered some sort of regime shift in the ecology of the genre ; the isometric dinosaurs lumbering morosely off into the nearest tar pit while all manner of new species evolved and multiplied to fill the gaps . as such the horror landscape has changed dramatically and the old stalwarts don’t seem to be around to fill it .
marries the trend for games built around evading enemies with the emphasis on a creepy atmosphere and tension over action and sudden scares . it has recently been joined by
the defining quality of this kind of game is that the monsters are either invincible or prohibitively difficult to confront directly . the titular alien , for example , is not an enemy to be dispatched but a fast moving fail - state waiting to happen . where some games offer the option to flee , or to fight , or to inch your way through the game and save your progress constantly ,


only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986 , and a feature-length film was released from footage taken from the completed episodes .

the aborted 65-episode sentinels series would have followed the ongoing adventures of rick hunter and lisa hayes and the rest of the robotech expeditionary force ( ref ) during the events of the robotech masters and the new generation series .

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the third and final series of comics dealing with the robotech ii : sentinels storyline .
robotech ii : the sentinels book 1 6 : the best laid plans . . .
robotech / forums / robotech ii : the sentinels . . . seriously , animate the series already !
robotech ii : the sentinels book 3 19 : to walk . . . among giants
robotech ii : the sentinels was a movie released in 1988 on vhs by palladium books .
here are the first five minutes of robotech ii : the sentinels . lion force voltron is still cool .
robotech ii : the sentinels roleplaying game is a sourcebook for palladium books ' robotech ii : the sentinels line of the robotech roleplaying game . it is set during the sentinels era . along with the mecha and character profiles , it also includes adventure seeds for further play .
sentinels ( robotech ii : role playing game ) by kevin siembieda * * brand new * * .
‹‹ robotech ii : the sentinels . . . seriously , animate the series already ! robotech : the movie - - good or bad ? ››
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though i know slim to null about robotech ii : the sentinels i’m willing to help out in any way shape or form .
robotech ii : the sentinels was dropped by eternity comics in april 1994 leaving book 3 and the rest of the series in general unfinished .
' robotech ii : the sentinels ' was supposed to be a sequel to the original robotech series . unlike the original series , it was intended to feature only original animation .
_ robotech ii : the sentinels _ : as above , but for the robotech expeditionary force ' s adventures on tirol and other invid - occupied worlds . robotech ii : the role - playing game , the sentinels . copyright 1987 , by kevin siembieda . 160 pages , $ 14 . 95 . cat . no . 557
robotech ii : the sentinels was a planned 65 episodes continuation of the original robotech series , with animation by tatsunoko productions and a brand - new story written by carl macek .
. . . no contest , macross ii . big west had deeper pockets to fund and organise macross ii with . harmony gold…did not .
robotech ii : the sentinels was divided into
books
, to follow the paperback novels from which the animated series scripts were derived and later adapted into comicbook form .
there were comics and novels spawned , and even an rpg ( palladium ' s robotech ii : the sentinels ) . however , the question of what happened during the sentinels ' timeline was never fully answered in an official capacity .
well , it seems that macross ii wins by a landslide vote . besides , what was so good about the sentinels movie , anyway ?
palladium also published a separate rpg based on the macross ii anime , but this was entirely unrelated to the robotech continuity .
partially outlined in robotech art 3 and verified at conventions and in interviews . minmei is the mother of zor . the last episode of robotech would have been the first episode so that the series would have no beginning or end . robotech was never completed because robotech ii : the sentinels was cancelled .
forums of megaverse - official forum for megaverse of palladium books ( including robotech & macross ii sub - forums ) .
the robotech comic series was published by eternity comics and later academy comics and was released based on the tv show . the comics only covered the story through the opening of the fourth book . the comics continued in robotech : prelude to the shadow chronicles , finishing the gap between robotech ii : the sentinels and robotech : the shadow chronicles .
spiritual successor : although shadow chronicles retcons all versions of robotech ii : the sentinels out of existence , the prelude to the shadow chronicles miniseries also functions as a continuation of the eternity / academy comic version ; it even begins at the last panel of the last published sentinels comic .
the sentinels story has been pretty well covered in comics and books . now i don’t know how much of the sentinels story will remain canon , but i expect a lot of changes to the sentinels storyline .
the core robotech continuity accepts only the
broad strokes
of the sentinels era , although the finished animation is canon .
second thoughts was the planned fourth episode of robotech ii : the sentinels . as the series was shut - down three episodes into production , only the script has ever been released of the episode . it would have been the first appearances of many of the central sentinels designs , including the revamped destroids .
the history of robotech vol . 1 : harmony gold & the birth of robotech
la résistance : scott bernard ' s rebellion against the invid ; the sentinels .
robotech ii : the sentinels was an attempt by harmony gold usa to continue the original 1985 robotech television series . only three episodes were ultimately animated before the project was canceled in 1986 , and a feature - length film was released fr . . .
robotech : the shadow chronicles was completed and screened at film festivals in august 2006 . it was the first original , animated robotech production since the release of robotech ii : the sentinels in 1988 . shadow chronicles was released theatrically in january 2007 and released on region 1 dvd in february 2007 .
there were five sentinels novels published by del rey books . each
book
of the sentinels comic corresponded to a novel in the paperback series .
robotech ii : the sentinels had a special issue between books 3 and 4 . feeling that the series was getting long , and wanting to bring in new readers , publisher jean elane wanted us to do a summary issue recapping the events in the sentinels story from book 1 to book 3 .
eventually , shoji kawamori will finally get control of the macross saga and would go on to write his sequels . so robotech ii was planned first , and was the seed for macross ii , macross plus , macross 7 , and macross frontier .
3 . 3 . 1 : the comico robotech adaptations 3 . 3 . 2 : the comico graphic novel 3 . 3 . 3 : robotech ii : the sentinels 3 . 3 . 4 : robotech ii : the malcontent uprisings 3 . 3 . 5 : robotech : the legend of zor 3 . 3 . 6 : robotech : cyberpirates 3 . 3 . 7 : robotech : return to macross 3 . 3 . 8 : robotech : invid war 3 . 3 . 9 : robotech : invid war aftermath 3 . 3 . 10 : how many of these titles are still in print ?
robotech ii - the . . .
this video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by harmony gold usa , inc .
in one corner , we have robotech ii : the sentinels - harmony gold’s first attempt at expanding the robotech universe . the series was to have been 65 episodes long , but only three episodes worth of footage were made , in which hg combined into one movie .
i think so too , i know some of the robotech fans are not interested in robotech ii : the sentienels at all . but some of the fans including ourselfs are . in my opinion , it deserved to be either remastered or remake . even better why don’t they do both ( remastered & remake ) robotech ii : the sentienels ?
macross ii . while i dont watch it as much as…say…macross : do you remember love ? , i do watch it more then robotech ii : the sentinels ( mainly because i had to have my copy imported , and can no - longer play the regional - coded disc , so y’know , a waste of $ 80 ) .
ragtag bunch of misfits : scott bernard ' s rebellion against the invid ; the sentinels .
the robotech franchise officially disowned the continuity of the novels in 2005 with the creation of robotech : the shadow chronicles .
robotech ii : the sentinels was picked up by academy comics in the summer of 1994 . publisher jean elane wanted to continue the series right where eternity comics had left off , so the first issue of sentinels from academy comics would be book 3 # 9 , published in september 1994 . this is also when we started coloring the covers ourselves !
i already mentioned that macross ii was not produced by studio nue . it was animated by aic and oniro .
i think this would be a perfect way to put the sentinels to rest after all these years , and a nice treat to all of us who actually liked the sentinels .
robotech ii : the sentinels is a robotech comic series released by eternity comics and academy comics in between 1988 to 1996 . the comic is a partial adaptation of the novel series and a partial adaptation of the cancelled tv series , taking their own twist on the story . the comic was ended in 1996 when academy comics lost their license to print robotech comics .
since the faltering robotech ii : the sentinels series in 1987 , several projects have emerged under the robotech banner , with mixed success . released in 2006 , robotech : shadow chronicles followed on from the end of the 1985 series . robotech : shadow rising is a planned sequel which has so far failed to materialise . robotech : love live alive came out on dvd in 2013 . a series called robotech : academy was put on kickstarter in 2014 , but failed to raise the requisite funding .
it ' s obvious that the initial designs were copied verbatim with very few changes , most in terms of clothing . even the poses haven ' t been altered . the similarities prove beyond doubt that harmony gold ' s original plan was to make
robotech the movie
directly continue on to
robotech ii : the sentinels
through these characters . in my opinion the original concepts that harmony gold devised for
robotech the movie
and
robotech ii : the sentinels
were far more interesting than the final products that finally reached audiences . it’s a shame that outside interference and financial problems got in the way of what could have been excellent continuations of the “robotech” franchise .
7 ) _ ref field guide _ : an illustrated reference work for the _ sentinels _ book . robotech ii : ref field guide . copyright 1989 , by kevin siembieda . 144 pages , $ 14 . 95 . cat . no . 558
harmony gold attempted to produce several follow ups ( see robotech : animated sequels and spinoffs ) to the original series , most notably robotech ii : the sentinels . the project fell through due to problems with toy licensing and changes in the japanese yen - us dollar exchange rate , among other reasons . the sentinels saga continued to be chronicled in the novelizations by jack mckinney and comic book adaptations by the waltrip brothers .
in the end , antarctic wound up publishing a series entitled sentinels : rubicon with a different creative team , but it was set in the post - new generation era and had nothing to do with the novel of the same name , nor did it have much of anything to do with the original robotech ii : the sentinels property outside of a few side references .
the “sentinels” animation is bittersweet , for sure . that small sample of what might’ve been .
robotech ii : the sentinels was originally planned to be a cartoon series on television , but that production was never fully realized . harmony gold , the owners of robotech , decided to have the sentinels produced as a comic book series instead . eternity comics , a division of malibu graphics , purchased the rights where it was adapted by editor - in - chief chris ulm and creative director tom mason .
robotech ii : the sentinels is the black and white comic book adaptation of the failed film of the same name , and the longest - running robotech spinoff to date . artists jason and john waltrip adapted the original jack mckinney novels into comic books , though they diverged from the novels as the story progressed . the sentinels comics were originally published by eternity comics , then academy comics . the storyline abruptly ended when academy was unable to renew their license with the rights holders . the comics license passed to antarctic press in the late 90 ' s , who published the sentinels : rubicon , which draws its name from the title of the fifth sentinels novel . however , the rubicon comic , instead of completing the sentinels story , is set years after the end of the sentinels campaign , and was not illustrated by the waltrips . it was not popular with fans , due to the poor artwork and the lack of connection to the sentinels . it was cancelled after only two issues .
it’s agred that we need somthing to fill the gaps in robotech , much as i loved sentinels the problems with it ae fare too great .
this one is obvious , with studio nue spending much more money on animation style than sentinels . however this may have been fauted by the financial isues that plagued the production of sentinels .
sentinels featured bizarre aliens , including big - breasted amazons known as
praxians
.
palladium books , past and current publishers of the robotech role - playing game , was the first company to release southern cross , new generation , and robotech ii : the sentinels on vhs home video . these vhs videos were available via mail - order , as well as some direct - market game and hobby shops .
yeah i expect there to be some alterations if there will be a sentinels . wonder what janice em’s role will be in shadow chronicles…because she is a major character in the sentinels .
in my opinion , macross ii was designed in an anime style , based off characters and mecha designs or the original macross designer .
bo ok 4 # 13 was the last issue of robotech ii : the sentinels published by academy comics in december 1996 . due to falling sales and licensing issues with harmony gold , jean elane was forced to discontinue the series , leaving the story unfinished and the readers on a cliff - hanger ending .
core books one through five covered the three segments of robotech as aired ; robotech ii covered the sentinels pilot movie and the source material that never ended up being developed . book six and lancer ' s rockers took place after the series ended , and books seven , eight , and the rest of the adventure books took place during or shortly after the macross segment .
end of the circle is a new story designed to tie up all the loose ends in the robotech universe post - sentinels . it is a creation of jack mckinney ' s and is not related to the robotech iii : the odyssey concept mentioned in robotech art 3 .
does robotech ii : the sentinels stand up on its own ? absolutely not . but for fans that lived and breathed robotech like i did , this does not disappoint . it ' s included on one of the bonus discs in the dvd box set collections of the show recently released by adv films - - make sure to watch for it .
here is some general information about the robotech universe , the role - playing game , and my robotech campaigns .
well , this one kinda isnt fair , as the production value of the sentinels plummeted as the financial woes affected the production .
gotta go with sentinels . while macross ii was set 80 years in the future , and really didnt have much direct connection to macross other than a rebuilt sdf - 1 , sentinels had all of the surviving characters , a story that connects directly to the original macross series , and even has characters and story elements from macross and next generation…
as the robotech expeditionary force prepares to confront the robotech masters at their home planet , the invid are already ravaging it .
the sentinels rpg also diverged in some respects from the story covered in the sentinels novels and comic books , having been developed independently based on the same incomplete source material provided by harmony gold . the two primary differences are the idea that the sdf - 3 left with an entire fleet of ref ships accompanying them , and that the ref and the sentinels joined in a protracted war against the invid regent . the game also suggested that members of the sentinels ' races would openly join the ref .
to get the story produced , harmony gold went over to japan and started planning robotech ii . this was before macross ii and macross plus was ever even planned . as a result , the series was produced in secret in japan . if word got out that robotech ii was a sequel to sdf : macross , the japanese fans of macross would be tickled . pink . however , we will never know the real reason why the project flopped after 3 episodes were made . carl blamed it on the dollar , but i wonder what the japanese would say ?
the rest will have to be done by the fans , as hg has no intention of bringing back the sentinels series .
however , it has been stated by the staff ( steve , tommy , etc ) that robotech ii : the sentinels is no longer canon . they didnt assign it to an alternate universe status , they just removed it completely from the canon ( actually , technically , they use the words “secondary continuity” in the sentinels faq section . however , this was done mostly because the basic premise remained…that the sdf - 3 left on the pioneer mission for the rm homeworld , but aside from that fact , nothing of the sentinels story is applicable in their view ) .
for the fool who said let sentinels die ( thele ) shut your trap ! ! ! ! i’m sick of the idiots who hate sentinels . forget them ! ! ! ! if they truly understood robotech they would know that if the sentinels ( and possibly the oddyssey saga ) were completed ( according to carl macek’s original vision ) there probably wouldn’t be these continuity problems .
palladium books , which had produced a table - top role - playing game based on the robotech series , also produced a role - playing game for the sentinels .
the _ macross ii rpg _ is based on the japanese video series macross ii , which was based on the movie macross : do you remember love ? , which was based on the macross tv series , from which robotech was derived . in other words , the scenarios are not related , though they use similar game mechanics and mecha ( being both published by palladium and written by siembeda ) tv shows , this is not surprising ) . the plot of the macross ii video series is detailed elsewhere in this faq .
robotech pen - and - paper role - playing games , based on the robotech and sentinels series , were published by palladium books from 1986 to 2001 . a new revised line began in 2008 with a role - playing game based on robotech : the shadow chronicles .
actually , no . it was their only animated attempt at expanding the macross universe without kawamori . they released a series of games which , between them and the original release ost’s of macross ii , tell the history between macross do you remember love ? and super dimension fortress macross ii : lovers again .
a couple of licensed video games were also created around the turn of the millennium : robotech battlecry and robotech : invasion .
spear counterpart : the sentinels introduced the invid regent , the estranged mate of the regess from
new generation
who served as the big bad .
while the sentinels anime shows the pollinators are not immune to captivity , in the novelization the robotech masters know that trying to simply shoot polly is a waste of their now very precious time .
tie in novels : jack mckinney ' s adaptation of the unproduced sentinels sequel , and several other original stories .
c’mon now , let the sentinels die . it was a horrible filler to begin with , and very boring .
comic book version of the robotech sentinels cartoon series , a sequel to the robotech macross series , that was planned but never fully made . in this issue , 10 years after the events in the robotech macross saga occurred , as rick hunter and lisa hayes prepare for their wedding , the robotech expeditionary force prepares to launch the sdf - 3 and journey to the robotech masters homeworld , not knowing that a new and powerful foe has attacked that homeworld – the invid in
a new threat .
script by tom mason & chris ulm and art by jason waltrip . issue also has a rick hunter & lisa hayes pinup and a guide to
who ' s who in robotech ii : the sentinels .
cover price $ 1 . 95 .
the 1st cd , has all the bgm music played during the tv show . the 2nd cd , hass all the vocal songs played during the tv show , the sentinels and the movie , this cd also has 7 bgm played only in the sentinels , and includes an 8 page booklet .
in response to fan - rage over what happened , harmony gold planned a sequel series . robotech ii : the sentinels . the show expanded greatly doctor lang ' s role in the overall story and provided two antagonists - - the vengeful invid regent , and the megalomaniacal t . r . edwards . of the two , t . r . edwards was the worst .
palladium , 1987 . paperback . condition : very good + . pal 557 . vg + condition . crisp , glossy cover . very nice . ~ this roleplaying supplement is based on the plots , conceptual art and models sheets for the never completed and little seen robotech ii : the sentinels animated television series . ~ 160 pages .
this article is about robotech role - playing games . for other uses , see robotech ( disambiguation ) .
lonely soldier boy ii ~ an acoustic album ( 2008 ) - this is the follow up album to the original lonely soldier boy cd . classic robotech tracks are performed in a minimalist , acoustic production . ( mbm )
after many years of keeping them in storage , we are proud to announce all the original pages used in the printing of the robotech sentinels comic book series are being put up for auction . now you can own a piece of robotech history !
for all its faults , and they are many , the finished robotech ii : the sentinels animation is something that makes me smile : a taste of what could have been , an opportunity to check in on some old friends who’ve gone and grown up on me , and a brief but tantalizing look at that wider robotech cosmos that was only hinted at in the original eighty - five episodes .
but having read the mckinney novelizations and the waltrip sentinels comics , i do feel that there is a bigger , richer world to robotech than just what we see in the original tv series .
one gender race : the praxians from the sentinels . the male and female zentraedi were segregated by gender , and effectively fulfilled this trope .
the game adds additional mecha and character profiles for the sentinels era . this includes the various sentinel races . the game also creates new ref mecha .
macek’s attempt at a new series to immediately follow the macross saga was robotech ii : the sentinels . with only three episodes produced before the project’s cancellation , the completed programs were reformatted into a 75 minute movie that was released in 1992 and re - released in this dvd set . like the movie , the sentinels is interesting , but feels remarkably incomplete and ends , as one would expect , with the impression that the producers ran out of money ( which , in essence , is what happened ) .
subscribe to lord karnage & cgr at urltoken cgr comics playlist : urltoken classic game room presents a cgr comics review of robotech ii : the sentinels issue # 1 from november 1988 published by eternity comics . nine years after the defeat of the zentradi , admiral rick hunter is about to marry ( finally ) list hayes , the sdf - 3 is going to launch and the invid attack and crush the robotech masters , good times in this average but entertaining read that continues the westernized saga of robotech !
p . o . v . sequel : the first act of the movie covers the events of the final two episodes of the robotech series from the perspective of the robotech expeditionary force .
as the series progressed to the robotech masters and new generation chapters , a different sound was needed to reflect these changes in the storylines . the musical team of steve wittmack and michael bradley contributed a number of pieces , including the eerie
flower of life
and their very popular songs for yellow dancer . the wittmack / bradley team was reteined to compose the songs for robotech the movie : the untold story , as well as compose the score for the sequel series robotech ii : the sentinels . for various reason , these two projects were never completed .
comic book version of the robotech sentinels cartoon series , a sequel to the robotech macross series , that was planned but never fully made . in this issue , as the invid continue their attack on the robotech masters homeworld , cabell realizes that they are searching for the secrets of the protoculture matrix . and back on earth , as preparations continue for the wedding of rick hunter and lisa hayes and the launch of the sdf - 3 , rick and vince have suspicions about general edwards in
a new threat – part 2 .
script by tom mason & chris ulm and art by jason waltrip . issue also has a robotech pinup and a guide to
who ' s who in robotech ii : the sentinels .
cover price $ 1 . 95 .
well , there ' s not much else to tell about robotech sentinels , except perhaps that it would be another nine years before we would work on another robotech book , when in early 2005 we were asked by tommy yune , creative director at harmony gold , to co - write ( and contribute some art to ) robotech : prelude to the shadow chronicles , a new 5 issue mini - series that would finish the story of the sentinels and bridge the gap to the new incarnation of robotech . . . the direct to dvd animated movie robotech : shadow chronicles .
what does canon mean ? and what changes would be made to the sentinels story ? . i haven ` t read the comics or books and i don ` t intend to either as long as there is the smallest chance of the ressurection of the sentinels . do you guys think that they would remake even the first episodes ? and if they finish the sentinels i hope that the characters will look the same . ( the mature look )
lisa hayes is this for rick hunter ( and vice versa ) - they even make it to the altar in sentinels .
streamline pictures , founded by macek after the end of robotech , released robotech ii : the sentinels on vhs and laserdisc after the palladium books releases went out of print . in 1994 , streamline pictures also released an incomplete series of
perfect collection
vhs videos . each volume included two episodes of robotech after their corresponding episodes of macross , southern cross , or mospeada , completely uncut but inaccurately subtitled . this series allowed english - speaking viewers to see many of the changes made .
_ robotech iii : not necessarily the sentinels _ is a film that is two parts parody of and one part homage to robotech . it was put together by the fine folks at seishun - shitemasu , through the magic of some very creative editing and dubbing .
i’d rather the people who made robotech write it than one of the fans .
this article is about the 1985 television series . for the franchise , see robotech . for other uses , see robotech ( disambiguation ) .
in the other corner is macross ii - big west’s first and only attempt at expanding the macross universe without shoji kawamori and studio nue . this series ran for 6 ova episodes .
canon foreigner : most of the cast of the sentinels and shadow chronicles . thomas riley
t . r .
edwards is a particularly significant example since he served as both an evil counterpart of roy fokker in adaptations before becoming a major villain in the sentinels .
subsequent airings : robotech appeared on the sci - fi channel in 1993 , and on cartoon network ' s toonami in 1998 . toonami aired only episodes 1 through 60 , finishing the run at the end of the robotech masters story - line . toonami reran 3 selected episodes of robotech as part of the giant robot week in 2003 . kteh , a public television station in san jose , california aired the
macross
and
new generation
storylines , as well as the robotech ii : the sentinels feature . robotech formerly aired daily on the anime network . as of january 7 , 2007 , the show also airs in canada on space and retro . as of 2017 , all three sagas of robotech are currently available for streaming on netflix .
a robotech edition of the mospeada oav robotech love live alive was released in 2013 as a sequel , of sorts , to the shadow chronicles .
robotech ii : the sentinels was the comic book sequel to the popular japanese animated television series robotech . it was published by eternity comics from 1988 to 1994 and academy comics from 1994 to 1996 . in all , there were 75 issues of sentinels related books over eight years making it robotechs longest running comic book ever . and even though we didn ' t finish the series , ending prematurely with book 4 # 13 , we are extremely proud of what we were able to accomplish . we express our thanks to all those involved in the production , and our gratitude to all the readers !
robotech : the role - playing game - extensive fan - created role - playing game based heavily on palladium ' s robotech rpg .
robotech ii the sentinles is a great movie to fill us in on what has happened since the first robotech war . sure it has it ' s good and bad moments but in the end i give it a 10 / 10 . nobody can say that the marriage scene wasn ' t truly one of the most beautiful parts of the robotech series . the marriage scene has an awesome song sung by the duet of minmei and janyce . this is a must see for any and all robotech fans .
without giving too much away , _ not necessarily the sentinels _ has some very funny things to say about robotech and anime fandom in general , but don ' t take it too seriously .
took a level in kindness : robotech : the sentinels portrays rick hunter as a much wiser and kinder person than he was in the actual macross saga , which makes sense given that sentinels is set around 10 years later , which seems to have given him enough time to finally grow up and grow more into his responsibilities .
amazonian beauty : bela and gnea , members of a proud warrior race from a lady land planet , as seen in the sentinels .
i have noticed many fans wanting the sentinels to be completed , and wondering what they can do to help get this series going .
i have a close friend who feel instantly in love with robotech , and after she saw the sentinels she was at a loss as to why in this day in age we haven’t seen the series completed .
i enjoyed this
movie
, actually the start of an incomplete series supposed to span 65 episodes . a diehard robotech fan , i couldn ' t get enough of this tape , which kept the original voices of the robotech tv series while recreating the feel of the series even with new animators . sadly , the story is very incomplete , since all it takes is the first 4 episodes of what would have been a series . having read the ( complete ) robotech books , i know that the sentinels are a group of aliens the sdf - 3 is supposed to meet early in the robotech ii story , but despite the
sentinels
present in the name of the movie , you don ' t even get a glimpse of them ! i hope , probably in vain , eventually someone will pick up and finish the series .
the feature - length cartoon robotech 2 : the sentinels , expands upon the events in genesis climber mospeda , and also fills in story gaps left unplugged in macross and southern cross . the heroes and heroines pile into spaceship sdf - 3 to keep the peace in a faraway star system ; meanwhile , an alien race destroys the robotech masters . if you want to know the outcome , get robotech 2 : the sentinels ; the labyrinthine , multicharacter storyline might well blow out our word processor if we were to go into further detail . more
four months had passed without a word from the sentinels , and the members of the expeditionary mission to tirol feared the worst - even as they began truce negotiations with the invid regent himself . far away , the surviving sentinels were hopelessly stranded on praxis , a planet in cataclysm , at the mercy of the invid regis . but deep within that world ' s core were answers to the sentinels ' prayers - if they could only reach them before praxis tore itself apart .
yes , i agree but this will probably never happen… . . . sad really… . . . sentinels will never be finished… .
2017 c . e . first extrasolar colony settled by earthlings . - - vf - 2 valkyrie ii enters service with the robotech expeditionary force . vf - 4 wins the competition , and enters service as the colony protector . - - vf - xx enters service with the robotech expeditionary force for the zentraedi . - - vf - 11 is produced on a limited basis .
c’mon…macross ii . seriously , “banana moon of love” , “love you” , etc… and in all fairness , i found the bgm of m2 much better…probably because it was done by a professional studio .
elsewhere , ( in _ the sentinels _ ) siembeda takes liberties with the number of ships that supposedly departed with the sdf - 3 to tirol . according to all the known sentinels reference material , the sdf - 3 was supposed to be alone . however , siembeda seems to be attempting to address problems in macek ' s version of the sentinels ; one ship leaves , and hundreds ( fully crewed ) return . likewise , he has the ref spend an indeterminate time sweeping the galaxy clean of the regent ' s invid , where in the outlines for the sentinels tv show , the ref was to have returned not long after the capture of the invid ' s home - world .
at least macross ii didn’t have flying unicorns . and how was zor able to pilot an invid shock trooper when those things are biomechanical and don’t have controls that humanoids would understand ?
the zentraedi rebellion is a story that takes place between the end of the macross saga and the beginnings of southern cross and the sentinels . it is based strongly on the eternity comic ' s miniseries the malcontent uprisings .
hg decided to retime the scenes digitally using a tele - cine converter . this means that the final master for the sentinels actually exists on one - inch videotape . then of course , macek recut that footage again to make the sentinels feature that we all know it ( as opposed to the 3 episodes that were intended )
war of attrition : in the second robotech war , the southern cross continues to suffer horrid losses , but at the same time the robotech master ' s power reserves continue to dwindle .
the bear like kabarrans and the swashbuckling amazons from praxis , the feral natives of garuda and the human robotech heroes - these oddly match champions banded together with yet other species to form the valiant sentinels . but no fighting force could hope to dislodge the invid hordes from haydon iv , ethereal world of superscience , or spheris , crystalline globe of living minerals and murderous resonances . nevertheless , the sentinels launched their attack . . .
the few episodes that were made are available on home video and dvd , and novelizations and a comic - book adaptation of the sentinels story are also available .
i don’t care what anyone says , i love the sentinels . always have . i love the designs , i love the music , i love the story , i love the music , did i mention i love the music ? still wishing for a complete sentinels soundtrack someday… i don’t care what tom bateman says , i can dream . : )
extremely unlikely . the animated tv version of the sentinels is , in effect , on hold . there is some renewed interest at harmony gold because of the popularity of robotech on the sci - fi network , but no firm plans have been made public .
most likely , the shadow chronicles will replace the sentinels storyline . the whole point of the new series will be to find out what happened to the sdf - 3 , and harmony gold can make up whatever story it wants . the shadow chronicles will serve the same function as the sentinels : filling in the gaps between macross , the masters , and the new generation ; and establishing a final ending for the entire saga . whatever hg does with the shadow chronicles will be final . they may retain some ( or even all ) aspects of the sentinels storyline , but they are free to change it in whatever way they want . i personally liked some parts of the sentinels story ( the development of the alpha fighters , the character development of jonathan wolff , etc . ) , but there were some lame parts too ( the cute fuzzy talking bears and foxes ) . i always got the idea that the sentinels storyline was too quickly thrown together after robotech became popular . hopefully after 20 years , hg has come up with a well - thought - out story that will make us all forget about the sentinels . that , of course , remains to be seen…
but , then again , it wasn’t really a stand alone project . about the only thing that was better about sentinels was the voice acting , and the lack of hairdressers .
additionally , elements from the movie were used in the plot of the robotech novel # 20 : the masters ' gambit .
shortly after robotech 3000 was shelved , a new influx of employees attempted to restart the robotech franchise by actively reaching out to fans through an official robotech websites , seemingly the first time harmony gold had given a shit about fans since the late 1980s .
shortly after the release of the album , fans offered a great deal of favorable comments and constructive criticism . some felt that there should have been more vocal tracks from the robotech characters lynn minmei and yellow dancer . others did not understand the significance of the sentinels medley and how it fit into the robotech universe ( the robotech sequel , the sentinels , is now available on home video [ editors note : they mean the one tape . ] ) .
together
, the wedding song of rick and lisa , was such a moving composition to some fans that they played it during their own wedding ceremonies . mark
: much of the sentinels and robotech movie & book canon was retconned out of existence by this movie , although several of its elements were incorporated into it . to be clear , the haydonites and getting a huge fleet are evidence that
the sentinels ' s story is continued in numerous comics and novels that were based on unused but finished scripts made for the series . however , after the storyline was rebooted , the novels were removed from continuity — the comic being continued on into robotech : prelude to the shadow chronicles .
there are no actual film masters on 16mm for the sentinels ( at least not the sentinels as we know it ) . yes the footage was shot in japan by tatsunoko on 16mm , but when the reels were delivered to hg , macek and his team realised that the “syntax of the film did not take full advantage of the footage” ( maceks words from art 3 ) .
hands down , macross ii . aside from the people big west employed to animate the feature , they also enlisted roughly 75 % of the people from macross dyrl ? to do the concept art work , and illustrational work ( hence the looks of the mardook tech to atlita ) .
optera - birthplace of the flower of life and its agents of retribution , the invid - was to be the site of the final confrontation between the sentinels and edwards and his invid allies . edwards , with lynn - minmei prisoner and a handful of invid inorganics under his control , had fled tirol for the distant planet . breetai ' s zentraedi were headed there as well - and so were the renegade forces of tesla , mutated by the fruits of the flower . the sentinels themselves were not far behind . . . and it was a battle the sentinels had to win !
later the robotech defense force announces their plans to form the robotech expeditionary force for the pioneer expedition in order to travel to the robotech masters ' s homeworld tirol to avoid a second robotech war on earth , leaving the charge of the defense of earth to anatole leonard ' s army of the southern cross , leonard complains about the expeditionary force taking all the available robotech weaponry to the mission as col . edwards watches the press conference from the tv smiling , later leonard complains in his office with rolf emerson about the expeditionary force taking the entire robotech weaponry to a
diplomatic
mission , leaving earth vulnerable to an alien invasion .
regardless of what some say , the sentinels is a great continuation to the robotech tv series . from rem and cabel ' s robotechnology / protoculture discussion ' s , to rick and lisa ' s wedding and the final battle on tirol between the regent ' s forces and the remaining bioroids . the sentinels movie remains to me a great start to the series that should have been . ( thank god for the novels and comics ) i still continually watch this film as much as the rest of the series . i find this and the robotech masters the best parts of robotech . i hope harmony gold will at some point finish it with a bunch of ova movies like the upcoming shadow chronicles .
subverted with the robotech elders who are said to be the original inhabitant of the planet tirol as they looked ancient .
gunther reinhardt was the lavender haired commander of the returning expedition . he is seen again in robotech the shadow chronicles .
along with ben dunn ' s ninja high school , the sentinels became one of the flagship titles of malibu comics ' eternity imprint . early on the story remained quite faithful to the original tv scripts , a fact that outsiders can tell only because eternity published two books containing the first eight scripts in 1991 & 1992 , but also included all - new ideas from mason and ulm . however , by the beginning of sentinels book ii in mid - 1990 , the comic book series had veered more towards the course of the novels - - whether this was due to a lack of access to the remainder of the original tv series material , a desire to present a unified sentinels front , or due to fan demand , nobody ' s ever said . still , as the story progressed all - new elements still slipped in , including an entire new subplot revolving around an underground movement within the ref , featuring brand - new characters , at the start of sentinels book iii in mid - 1993 .
north american television debut : robotech originally aired in 1985 in first - run syndication , meaning it was sold directly to local television stations without having been run on a network first—this was part of a trend in animation in the 1980s . previously , local stations would rerun theatrical cartoons like looney tunes or shows that had previously aired on network tv on saturday mornings . this changed after he - man and the masters of the universe introduced a new economic model : shows sold directly for first - run to stations , driving and funded by sales of related toys . [ 5 ] though the original robotech series did well in ratings , the attempt to cash in on toys may have doomed robotech ii : the sentinels as the original series attracted older viewers , not necessarily the children targeted by the toy line . the failure of the matchbox toy line is cited as a primary reason for the cancellation of the sentinels series .
robotech : the movie was an attempt by carl macek to adapt megazone 23 : part one for the american market , in cooperation with cannon films . robotech : the movie , also called robotech : the untold story , was a 1986 american - japanese science fiction animated film based on the robotech tv series and robotech franchise . the 1986 theatrical film used footage from part one of megazone 23 spliced with super dimensional cavalry southern cross and had only a tenuous link to the television series .
“if we are to avoid a second robotech war we must make peaceful contact with the robotech masters and establish a relationship of mutual cooperation . that is the mission of the sdf - 3 . ”
. . . . i think some of what made robotech great was its asian style animation , and sentinels had too much american influences . it kinda atered down the imagery , especially the backgrounds . ( some of them looked actually scooby doo - ish )
one degree of separation : several of the new characters are family members of characters from the original robotech .
the series continues in the masters ( “the second robotech war” ) , adapted from 1984’s japanese series the super dimension cavalry southern cross and the new generation ( “the third robotech war” ) , adapted from 1983’s japanese series genesis climber mospeada , both of which ( with the rewrites and american actor’s dubbing ) carry the robotech storyline forward to an exciting end .
comic book version of the robotech sentinels cartoon series , a sequel to the robotech macross series , that was planned but never fully made . in this issue , as rick hunter struggles with the weight of command , minmei appears and on the robotech masters ' homeworld , the lord regent invid ' s plans to obtain the secrets of the protoculture matrix are not going well in
the inorganics .
script by tom mason & chris ulm and art by jason waltrip . cover price $ 1 . 95 .