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Knowing that, it should come as no surprise that I was utterly galvanized by Robert Lieberman's Fire in the Sky when it theaters in 1993. Adults seemed to have the answers about fucking everything, but none of them seemed to be able to explain Bigfoot tracks or missing airplanes or whatever the hell Betty and Barney Hill saw in the woods that one night, and what could be more fascinating than a thing my parents didn't have an answer for? Finally, I thought, even ground! The classic version of Unsolved Mysteries was always good for a fix on one of these fronts, and I could frequently be found with my nose jammed into one of Time-Life's old Mysteries of the Unknown hardcovers. Rolled into those interests was an insatiable hunger for stories of the unexplained: Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Bermuda Triangle, aliens, you name it. Some of that was just my natural inclination – I was a morbid kid who loved monsters, creature FX, and pushing my tolerance for scary movies ever further. This is all very bad news for me, a dude who grew up sort of obsessed with the very concept of UFOs. Even fewer have any real budget behind them fewer still have a script or set pieces that you can really sink your teeth into. Dig into the guts of Amazon Prime or Netflix, and you'll find all manner of alien invasion/UFO movies, and very few of them are any goddamn good (even worse, many are also of the found footage subgenre if you've seen even one found footage alien abduction movie, you have more or less seen the majority of what that particular sub-subgenre has to offer, and it ain't much).

If we're being honest, this particular subgenre doesn't get a lot of attention, and I mean that both financially and creatively.

That Nope also turned out to be a brand-new, winning entry in the alien invasion/UFO horror subgenre is almost too much good news to bear. From the talent involved (Peele scripting and directing, Hoyte van Hoytema shooting, Keke Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya and Steven Yeun and the legendary Michael Wincott in front of the camera) to the film's nods to Spielberg and Shyamalan to my enduring love for films with titles that throw a sizable middle finger in the face of SEO practices, I was basically in the bag for this one from the moment all the contracts were signed. If you're anything like me, you're gonna have a helluva lot of fun with it.īut then, of course, this is where I landed on Nope. It's been a long time coming – three long years since the arrival of Peele's last theatrical mindfuck, Us nearly two years since the project itself was announced one year since the arrival of Nope's intriguing first poster and five months since the film's very first teaser trailer debuted during the Super Bowl – but the wait is finally over, and (in this writer's considered opinion) turns out to have been well worth all the time we spent impatiently eyeballing our calendars and tapping our watches. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past six months, you are well aware that Jordan Peele's highly-anticipated Nope hits theaters this weekend. Welcome to Into The Void, a weekly pilgrimage into, well, whatever happens to be going on in the horror-obsessed (and unfortunately opinionated) mind of Scott Wampler, officially licensed opinion-haver and co-host of the FANGORIA Podcast Network’s The Kingcast.