In Corin Hardy's new film WHISTLE we are introduced to Chrys, the new girl in school. She is befriended by Ellie and her misfit group of friends. The unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle.

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In Corin Hardy's new film WHISTLE we are introduced to Chrys, the new girl in school. She is befriended by Ellie and her misfit group of friends. The unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle.
App that doesn’t require users’ emails or phone numbers secured over $1m in funding with help from Jack Dorsey
Ben Makuch at The Guardian:
Some far-right extremists have fled Telegram for a new haven: SimpleX, a messaging service that just secured over $1m in funding with the help of Jack Dorsey, once the CEO of Twitter, now known as X. The migration from Telegram began after the app’s founder and chief executive, Pavel Durov, announced a crackdown on illegal content and cooperation with law enforcement requests. Just weeks ago, Durov was arrested in France on a litany of charges that allege Telegram helped spread child sexual abuse material and fuelled criminal activities among its users. Some of those users are far-right extremists who are now avowedly nervous to use the app and have pivoted to SimpleX, an obscure secure messaging app promising unparalleled privacy and encryption options. The app is perceived as a safer alternative and consequently gaining momentum, because it does not require any user authentication or identifications in the form of an email or phone number, which SimpleX says “radically improves your privacy”.
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Steven Rai, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), said several extremists he monitors could see the upside of replacing Telegram with SimpleX. “SimpleX has numerous security features that extremists view as advantageous compared to Telegram – in addition to having end-to-end encryption activated by default for all messages, it boasts being the first chat platform that circumvents the need for user IDs,” he said. Rai continued: “On most social media platforms like Telegram, accounts are assigned a unique identifier that remains static even when users change their display name, which allows law enforcement and other investigators to track them across time and space, find out who they are communicating with, and possibly identify them.”
All of these features combined, became a selling point for far-right extremists to begin downloading SimpleX, which has the option for one-to-one messaging and broader chat groups – similar to Telegram. “Nothing is bulletproof,” said one far-right user in a discussion on SimpleX about how the app was better than Telegram, “but [SimpleX] doesn’t need your email or phone number (unlike Telegram and such) and doesn’t store chats on their server”. In August, the company announced more than 100,000 downloads of its Android app and that it “raised a $1.3m pre-seed round” of funding led by Dorsey and a Boston-based venture capital firm. “Jack, we are super lucky to have your support and investment,” said the company in an online press release. “Thank you for believing in our ability to build a better messaging network!” Dorsey had sung the praises of SimpleX on X in 2023, calling the app “promising” and potentially better than Signal, a well-known secure-messaging app considered the gold standard among privacy experts.
[...] The near “Whac-A-Mole” game of chasing extremists on alternative social media apps is a long-running problem among national security officials trying to limit the online activities of terrorist organizations. During its heyday in 2014, Islamic State used everything from the question-and-answer site Ask.Fm to Facebook, Instagram and X as recruitment sites. Bans on bigger apps led to Telegram eventually becoming the choice platform for most terror groups looking to find new members. Things did begin to change as the Dubai-based app came under more and more public scrutiny. As early as May 2023, IS members signaled that SimpleX could be a new haven for covert organizing.
Far-right extremists have begun to migrate from Telegram to SimpleX over Telegram’s crackdown on illegal content in the wake of Pavel Durov’s arrest and greater privacy protections.
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Director/Co-Writer Mauricio Chernovetzky & Co-Writer Alexander Iosjpe discuss their latest film, SACRIFICIOS.
In SACRIFICIOS, Juan is consumed by guilt and grief following the tragic death of his three-year-old child. He desperately flees to the open sea to isolate himself in a world of guilt, pain and longing. He is consumed by a single, aching desire: to be with his son again.
TERRORGRAM - Filmmaker Jason Yu discusses his feature film debut, SLEEP, with FEARS Magazine's executive editor, Joseph B Mauceri.
In Jason Yu’s feature film debut, SLEEP, he introduces us to Newlyweds Hyun-su, an aspiring actor, and Soo-jin, a successful executive, who have their domestic bliss up-ended when Hyun-su begins speaking in his sleep. He sits up in bed and ominously states, “Someone’s inside.” From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, Hyun-su sleepwalks doing bizarre things, with no recollection of what happened the night before. Overwhelmed with anxiety that he may hurt himself or their young family, Soo-jin can barely sleep because of this irrational fear.
Playwright Clay McLeod Chapman & directed by Pete Boisvert talk with FEARS Magazine's executive editor Joseph B Mauceri about FEEJEE MERMAID.
Filmmaker RYAN KRUGER discusses his latest feature film, STREET TRASH, based on the 1987 independent film.
Director and co-writer GORDON GREENBERG, and co-writer STEVE ROSEN, discuss DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS
Currently at the New World Stages, Stage 5, in New York City is DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS, a pansexual GenZ Count Dracula is in the midst of an existential crisis. When he sets his sights on the brilliant young earth scientist Lucy Westfeldt, he meets his match for the first time – as well as a slew of other colorful characters including vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing, insect connoisseur Percy Renfield and behavioral psychiatrist Wallace Westfeldt, whose British country estate doubles as a free-range mental asylum.
(LtoR) Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Jordan Boatman, James Daly, Ellen harvey and Arnie Burton in DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS. Photo by Matthew Murphy