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Do You Like To Be Scared? (T.J. Cimfel and David White, ’96)

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I hope so, because Shut In, a new psychological horror thriller written by T.J. Cimfel and David White, began production this week!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will star Beth Riesgraf as “a woman who suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don’t realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.”

Cimfel and White’s script previously won Best Horror Feature Screenplay at the 2011 Shriekfest and was on the 2012 Blood List of Hollywood’s top unproduced horror screenplays.

Can’t wait for a good scare? You can already see one of Cimfel’s other movies! No Tell Motel is available on DVD or through Amazon’s Instant Video.

Get to Reading this Summer!

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Join the new academic tradition known as the Summer Reading Program. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni are reading:

The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse.

brando skyhorse book cover

The book is “a series of interconnected fictional stories of working class men and women living in Echo Park, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, and offers a window into the lives of Mexican Americans as they struggle to define their identities in the context of pursuing the American dream.”

  • If you would like to participate in an alumni only book discussion group in Bloomington, Chicago or Washington DC, please click here to register or contact your area Alumni Regional President directly.
  • Click here to RSVP for the campus book discussion group on Friday, August 20, 6-8pm.
  • Wednesday, September 3rd the author will be discussing his book at the President’s Convocation at 11 am at Westbrook Auditorium in Presser Hall, IWU.