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Dark Zone Thirteen is a 2019 horror anthology written, conceived, and co-directed by Oregon’s Joe Sherlock (Odd Noggins, Channel 99, Drifter, etc). It’s a six-tale affair with a fair & varied selection of different stories, as well as Mr Sherlock’s classic tropes- bizarre chatty dialogue & self-referential moments. Showering, often tattooed, larger ladies. Lo-fi-at-points- wacky effects, and genuine passion for pulpy horror & sci-fi tropes. And most amazingly it was all filmed, edited, and put together into a finished one-hour and twenty-minute film in just four months- to have its premiere at that year's Seattle Crypticon.
After the rewardingly enough- if-slight piece meal/ jumping from genre-to- genre of 2019’s Leaving Meaning. The Beggar seems a more focused/ generally affecting affair- which neatly splits itself into halves. With the first CD taking in nine tracks, and its second just two- with the longer forty-three-minute track nodding back towards the sound-scaping vibes of Micheal Gira’s The Body Lovers / The Body Haters project, but within a Swans setting.
