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Review: John Soares’s THE DANGER ELEMENT (2016) Plays It Safe With Tons Of Action And Ingenuity

The past couple of weeks or so, for me, have been ravaged by work on top of updating the site, though I found myself stumbling upon a peculiar looking trailer at the time. It was untitled and it drew my curiousity enough to press the play button, and before I knew it, I was sampling a montage of action, science fiction and fantasy and martial arts, and above all else, actor Doug Jones in pure sinister fashion in what I later identified as the new film, The Danger Element, formerly a webseries and now an upcoming feature film from star and director John Soares. The newly-knit film, a crowdfunded lo-fi dieselpunk action adventure, took nearly a decade to fulfill after having its funding originally pulled at the time. Thankfully the project saw better turns of fortune and is now currently in the works for distribution with details pending. That said, […]

Catch The Trailer For Indie Steampunk Action Adventure, THE DANGER ELEMENT

Lee B. Golden III

Many moons ago in 2014, I shared a practice fight performed by the likes of action actors Dylan Hintz and independent banner Westhavenbrook’s own John Soares, the latter whose work I haven’t been at all familiar with until this week when I spotted a peculiar looking untitled trailer on YouTube. That trailer, however and for all intents and purposes, now signals the upcoming VHX release of Soares’s latest long-term labor, The Danger Element. The film sees actor, writer and director Soares as a member of a secret order of knights who, along with his sister and a government agent, lead a mission to retrieve an item that could resurrect his father from the dead. Having initially meant to be a feature film prior to having funding pulled following its pre-production launch in 2006, Soares sought to turn it into an action adventure webseries now partially funded thanks to a loyal […]