(As of this writing, this film is only available on Amazon Prime).
This is so strange. As of this moment, there is no Wikipedia entry for the new film “S4 The Bob Lazar Story”.
Insert X-Files whistle here…
Here is the entry from IMDB:
In 2023, the U.S. government acknowledged Dreamland, but not S4. Over 35 years after Bob Lazar’s revelations, this documentary exposes secrets of a facility the government still denies. With unprecedented access, it combines Lazar’s testimony, archival footage, recreations, and new evidence to uncover reverse-engineered alien crafts and shadowy operations in the Nevada desert.
S4: The Bob Lazar Story is a cinematic collaboration spearheaded by Project Gravitaur, created to bring Bob Lazar’s experience at the secret S4 facility to life through stunning 3D visual recreations of the base, the craft, and the environment he described in the late 1980s.
For the first time ever, viewers will be able to see exactly what Lazar witnessed, presented with a level of visual clarity and detail never before attempted. Built from years of research, design, and production, these digital reconstructions offer a rare look into a world few believed they would ever be able to visualize.
With renewed global interest in UAPs, whistleblowers, and government secrecy, S4: The Bob Lazar Story helps frame the roots of today’s movement. Much of what is being said now traces directly back to Lazar’s original 1989 revelations, making his story more relevant today than it ever was before.
Project Gravitaur’s aim is to cut through the decades of confusion, ridicule, and distortion that have surrounded Lazar’s testimony. This film doesn’t ask you to believe. It simply shows what was described, how it looked, and why it continues to echo in today’s headlines.
S4: The Bob Lazar Story is about stepping back into a pivotal moment in history with fresh eyes and a sharper lens.
The Rev-Iew
It’s almost unfair for me to review this film. I’m a bit of a Bob Lazar sycophant, and was in the same room with him during the premiere of this trailer. My wife and I were lucky enough to attend the Austin show of Chris Ramsay and Jesse Michael’s “It’s Probably Nothing”.
I first heard whispers of Bob Lazar while stationed at Fort Huachuca during the late nineties. I’d spent time at White Sands and even worked for E-Systems/Raytheon. He’s the original Area 51 whistleblower, and the rest is history. Maybe someday I’ll tell you all about the time I had some film confiscated by AAFES in 1998.
I mean, come on; I just started playing NO MAN’S SKY.
I want to believe.
The end.
But…
Was it a good film?
It’s a documentary film about secret UFO projects at Area 51. If you weren’t convinced by the hundreds of documentary films already available, this won’t change your mind. Go back to sheep, I mean…sleep, just like my wife during this film.
She’s a believer, but Bob’s voice…
He should narrate children’s books for bedtime.
Now, are you a believer, and just want to add more knowledge to your already stuffed hope-chest of a cranium? Then this is your version of a southern baseball-dad’s annual Marvel offering with the bro’s. You wouldn’t dare miss this.
If you’re one of those people – like myself – then you’ve been dying for the release of this film. I will say the anticipation was a bit of a double-edged sword, though. I’ve nervously smiled through many a half-assed UFO documentary over the decades; was Luiji Vendittelli going to be able to give Bob’s story the love it deserved?
In my opinion, which is why you’re here, it did.
Through years of painstaking CGI recreations via Bob’s first-hand knowledge, they created a believable looking S4 complex behind the scenes experience. In today’s streaming world, anyone can throw together a shit YouTube quality doc-film in a few days. Secretly, that’s what I feared this film would be.
I’ve been promised the moon before – pun unintended – and most have fallen flat in the most “George Bailey” way imaginable. In the end, Old Man Potter always wins.
Not this time.
This film looks like a million bucks in regard to its effects and set design. As someone who’s roamed the halls of buildings requiring TS clearances and half-abandoned military installations, I can vouch for its style asthetics.
Like I said, this film will not make you a believer but, if you want your solidified fantasy world to have a fresh coat of paint and some updated graphics, this is your film. I was glued to the screen from beginning to end, and felt no buyer’s remorse for donating my twenty bucks. A solid documentary film and much more than I expected.
Bob Lazar is the bravest fucker on the planet; The Hunter Thompson of physics. I believe this film gave him the respect he deserves in the most honest and entertaining way possible.
The end.
That review was for the believers.
Here’s the Rev-iew for the skeptics:
Tomorrow is Easter. Go to church and help pray away these sky-devils.
To most, 1865 was an eye-opening year. The American Civil War was officially over and the soldiers fortunate enough to survive the bloody conflict returned home to collect the pieces of their former lives. To young Arizonan, Robert Jack, the fateful desert homecoming marked the end to all he once knew. Forgiveness is overrated. Death is final. Revenge, however, dances between the fine lines of mortality and eternity. Love always finds a way.
“Reading Jim Walker and the Redemption Hymn is equal parts quirky fun and riveting action. Cloud’s confident, entertaining voice draws the reader in like an old radio western: the perfect bite-sized story with a main character you’re ready to follow through every adventure he finds himself on. So, tune in next time…”
– Megan Stockton, author of Lovely, Dark & Deep
The history books would read that Jim Walker was brutally executed after the Battle of Goliad, but a few promises in the right ear blurred the contrast between blood and ink. Now an aging bounty hunter on the verge of retirement, his services are requested in the Northern Arizona Territory to solve the terrifying mystery of the Verde River Massacre. With guns from a local Deputy, courage from a saloon proprietor, and a deathbed confession from an all-too-familiar Medicine Woman, Jim sets off on what could be his final adventure. Will he lay the ghosts of his past to rest once and for all, or is he simply whistling his Redemption Hymn?
“Someone call DC and tell them this is how you write a female hero character!” – Lisa Lee Tone, Bibliophelia Templum
Angel Burns is a young firefighter with a shrouded history. During a routine night at work, she stumbles upon a demonic ceremony that brings her memories out of hiding – as well as her repressed supernatural powers. Angel soon learns her life was intended for things greater than extinguishing fires for mortals. Now on the payroll of the Vatican, Angel embarks upon an epic quest to protect the Gutenberg Bibles from evil. If successful, she will secure peace for generations. If she fails, the power of the ancient books will bestow an eternity of darkness upon all humanity!
Toby Liberman is nearing the end of his rope. After a fateful confrontation with his wife’s lover, he is chased into the woods only to be discovered by an unidentifiable creature. He is attacked and rendered unconscious. Upon waking at the scene of a gruesome triple homicide, Toby is arrested as the sole suspect and thrown into a jail cell with a strange man that knows way too much about his predicament. The stranger reveals to Toby that he now possesses the curse of the werewolf. Using his new-found strength to flee his captors, Toby begins to discover that things are not what they seem in the sleepy town of Twin Oaks, TX. Now hunted by law enforcement, as well as the town’s gun toting civilians, Toby seeks vengeance against his false accusers and embarks upon a quest to clear his name once and for all.
A Curse Beyond Comprehension. A Power Beyond Belief. A Girl Far From Home. Katie Liberman is your typical eighteen-year-old college student…or at least that’s what her family thinks. Picking up five years after the events of A Taste of Home, Katie has dropped out of school and embarked upon a dangerous quest to find Kurt Jimmerson, the New York City attorney responsible for her family’s werewolf curse. Unknown to her, the attorney’s grip on the ‘City That Never Sleeps’ is tighter than imagined and she’ll need any and all help available to be victorious. But… where do you find friends when you’re Far From Home?
Twin Oaks, Texas is at war! Taking place immediately after the Far From Home events in New York City, Katie Liberman has returned to rescue her birthplace from the clutches of her nemesis. As the paranormal battle of North vs. South rages in the shadows, the tiny town must decide to fight against the odds or become one with the darkness. Blood will be shed and only one will survive as the final battle of the Home Series concludes.
I know this is the part where I’m supposed to talk about the book, but I feel as though the synopsis needs its own preface to truly understand. 2023 was quite an eye-opening year! I began it by living my dream as a vintage steam locomotive fireman, but that dream was soon squashed thanks to my writing career. It won’t matter that you wrote your extreme horror offerings years ago and under a pen name. Also, it won’t matter that your publisher and author friends from days gone by express pleasantries and kind, nurturing words to your face, because they’ll clique-up and talk trash the minute you turn your back. F**k the biz, create. Create for art, not clicks. Click for love, not hate. Those are words true artists should have no issues living by, yet most seem to hide behind their keyboard shields, flinging ill-thought words of destruction toward once-trusted ears. Don’t pour something into everything; pour everything into something. Do it all by yourself if necessary. With any luck, 2024 will be the year of The Reverend. I’m not exactly sure what that means yet, but we’ll find out together. Anyway, here are a few short stories and poems I wrote as C. Derick Miller in 2023. I stole them from myself. Fair and square. Enjoy.
Poetry has always come naturally to me. Whether it is an expression of emotion toward someone I care about, or a display of humor pointed in the direction of those I loathe, it is my true outlet. Several of these works were written in a passenger seat while exploring the highways of the United States and somehow managed to survive “The Great Ex-Wife/Ex-Girlfriend Poetry Purge” of 2019. Others were penned during COVID-19 quarantine. Although it may not be the most epic poetry collection you’ve ever read, it all contains bits of blood and soul. You will feel something. Guaranteed.
“This profound collection of horror brings classic monsters into new light in the modern day” – B.L. Blankenship, God Walks The Dark Hills series.
The modern world is a crazy place. Worrying about childish politicians, empty grocery store shelves, and our pending membership to the “global disease of the week” club, it leaves very little time for the average reader to finish an entire novel. This is where Six from Five Seven: Short Stories from a Short Man comes in clutch! A story per day to keep the impending apocalypse away, with a single day left over to contemplate why you purchased this book in the first place. That sounds like an entertaining week when compared to the one you were destined to have regardless. What do a cursed husband, a privileged brat, a curious prostitute, a repressed savior, a vengeful son, and two hell-bound soldiers have in common? Their stories lie within the pages of this collection and invite you to tag along on their journeys of fate, redemption, and demise. When finished, you, dear reader, can hide this book inside your basement with the rest of those important documents you wished you’d never taken home. The FBI won’t be happy, but at least they’ll know you’re a cool person for owning a copy while conducting the raid. That must count for something, right? Let’s hope the judge thinks so!
Also, there’s a few other things not listed here that are floating around out there. Best of luck with the hunt.
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Rev. Dare Cloud
Reverend · adjective. worthy of adoration or reverence. synonyms: sublime · sacred.
is a Dallas author, musician, and gonzo journalist. Some of his works include the controversial splatter-western Starving Zoe (written as C. Derick Miller), the Taste of Home trilogy, and the ongoing Jim Walker series. He is also the co-host of the American Justice Podcast and Senior Writer/Junior Producer for AtuA Productions LLC. His literary crushes are (of course) Hunter S. Thompson, J.D. Salinger, and Kevin Smith. Preach truths, toke jokes, and shoplift Amazon.
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