{"id":21776,"date":"2012-06-25T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T06:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=21776"},"modified":"2012-06-25T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T07:57:11","slug":"one-year-on-and-the-tunnel-continues-to-thrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=21776","title":{"rendered":"One Year On and \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d Continues to Thrill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA&#8230;June 25, 2012\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/int\/tunnel04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One year on and \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d continues to find new audiences and live up to its ground-breaking reputation with the release of an exclusive Limited Edition Anniversary Blu-Ray available for pre-sale from June 25 2012 for four weeks only.<\/p>\n<p>A true collector\u2019s must-have, the \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d Limited Edition Anniversary Blu-Ray will, for the first time, feature the cult Australian horror film in 1080p HD, the two disc DVD with over two hours of extras, never before seen Q&amp;A footage with cast and crew from the Popcorn Taxi premiere, a unique physical 35mm frame from the film mounted on the cover and each of the 1000 Blu-Ray Limited Editions will be numbered supporting their exclusivity.\u00a0\u00a0 All pre-orders before July 27 will be specially signed by Co-Producers\/Writers, Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey as well as Director, Carlo Ledesma.<\/p>\n<p>Only available on \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetunnelshop.com\">http:\/\/www.thetunnelshop.com<\/a>\u00a0 it will also feature a four page booklet of unseen material and is priced at $59.00.<\/p>\n<p>Coinciding with the movie\u2019s first anniversary and for a limited time only, the original two-disc DVD will go on sale for $17.00 (plus shipping) and the iPad application will be reduced to $1.99.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey announced \u201cThe Tunnel: Dead End\u201d was in development.\u00a0 Set to pick up the story years later as Tangles\u2019 sister is determined to answer once and for all what happened to her brother in the gloomy underground tunnels, \u201cThe Tunnel: Dead End\u201d has received funding from Screen Australia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Tunnel\u201d Story So Far:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frames sold to date: <\/strong>51,051<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frameholders: <\/strong>4,409<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most frames held by one person: <\/strong>1,500<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Downloads on Vodo: <\/strong>1,732,456<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Downloads on Peer to Peer: <\/strong>4,000,000*<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DVDS sold worldwide: <\/strong>25,000*<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Streams on smh.tv: <\/strong>72,098<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other streaming views: <\/strong>759,269<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trailer views on You Tube: <\/strong>1,732,456<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inflight views: <\/strong>7,000 flights<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>* indicates approximate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Infographic attached<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Awards:<\/p>\n<p>AIMIA Award &#8211; Best Use of Social Media, A Night of Horror \u2013 Best Australian Director, Bloodfest \u2013 Best Film, Bloodfest \u2013 Best Supporting Actor, Bloodfest \u2013 Best Cinematography, Screamfest \u2013 Best Special Effects and Barossa Film Festival \u2013 Best Australian Film.<\/p>\n<p>Film Festivals:<\/p>\n<p>Screamfest LA, Fest Portugal, A Night of Horror Sydney, Barossa Film Festival, Bloodfest Fantastique, Fancine Spain, Telluride Horrow Show, CPH PIX Denmark, BUT Film Festival Netherlands, Warrambeen Film Festival, Fright Night Film Festival and Cinemanila.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Philippines born, Carlo Ledesma, \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d first came to the attention of worldwide media in 2011 based on its unique crowd-funding and distribution models \u2013 the movie\u2019s producers launched the movie\u2019s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetunnelmovie.net\">www.thetunnelmovie.net<\/a>, with an innovative plan to raise the movie\u2019s cash budget of $135,000 by selling a frame of the movie for $1 to the internet audience (the concept is based on a 90-minute film consisting of 135,000 individual frames) and releasing the film for free, online.<\/p>\n<p>The film enjoyed simultaneous release across DVD as a 2-disc deluxe-edition (Australia), a PAY-TV broadcast (Australia) and an exclusive theatrical run in Australia as well its digital release on May 18, 2011.\u00a0 \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d also made Australian movie history becoming the only domestic film to be available for download on the iPad platform.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tunnel\u201d is set amidst abandoned underground train tunnels beneath Sydney&#8217;s CBD. In 2008, chasing rumours of a government cover-up and urban legends surrounding the sudden back-flip, investigative journalist Natasha Warner led a crew of four into the underground labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p>They went down into the tunnels looking for a story \u2013 until the story found them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tunnel\u201d chronicles their harrowing ordeal. With unprecedented access to the recently declassified tapes the crew shot in the claustrophobic subway tunnels, as well as a series of candid interviews with the survivors, viewers come face to face with the terrifying truth.\u00a0 This never before seen footage takes viewers deep inside the tunnels bringing the darkness to life and capturing the raw fear that threatens to tear the crew apart, leaving each one of them fighting for their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA&#8230;June 25, 2012\u00a0 One year on and \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d continues to find new audiences and live up to its ground-breaking reputation with the release of an exclusive Limited Edition Anniversary Blu-Ray available for pre-sale from June 25 2012 for four weeks only. A true collector\u2019s must-have, the \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d Limited Edition Anniversary Blu-Ray will,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=21776\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21788,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21776\/revisions\/21788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}