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Illinois Hell Hole
A Movie for Your Ears
A snarky, entitled Emo musician inherits his parents' farm, discovering a bottomless pit that grants wishes… but only when people are chucked in. Now his wildest dreams are just a few dead bodies away!
A feature-length horror/comedy full-cast ASMR immersive audio extravaganza by Matt Brookens — starring Daran Norris (The Fairly OddParents), Corey Burton (Star Wars, Disney) and Meghan McDonough (Dark Matter).
As featured by
NPR Illinois, Illinois Times, Horror.Kult, The Podcast Geek
CONTACT: illinoishellhole@gmail.com
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Episode 8 of Illinois Hell Hole, the full-cast horror comedy audio drama, where a cursed cornfield in central Illinois collects its debts with interest. Over a pair of ten a.m. whiskeys at the Busted Bottle, a reformed Rabin Masterson sets out to save his great-great-grandson's soul. Life is precious, he swears. There is still hope. There is wifi! And so, with the best of intentions, he asks Ned the most dangerous question in the county: what do you wish for?

Out in the corn, Lenore stands alone at the lip of the bottomless pit, demanding answers from the dark. But the dark has been listening, and something down there has grown very, very curious about her.

Elsewhere, Ned's wildest dreams begin, at long last, to come true. But in Illinois Hell Hole, nobody gets something for nothing, and every wish is paid for in full.

Then winter falls like a funeral shroud over Springfield. The jack-o'-lantern rots beneath the snow. And the town psychic comes knocking, carrying a premonition that cannot be unsaid.

One episode remains. The pit is patient. The pit is hungry. And it is coming for its due.

CAST
Corey Burton as the Narrator
Daran Norris as Rabin
Matt Brookens as Ned
Reggie Guyton as Moose
Meghan M. McDonough as Lenore
Kassandra Escandell as Moonglow
Maria Libri as Sheryl
Jeska Bailey Forsyth as Sheena
Jeff Williams as the Garbage Man

Written and directed by Matt Brookens
Sound mixer: Brian Magrum
Editor: Adam Kunselman
Originally broadcast on NPR Illinois 91.9 FM

SPECIAL THANKS
Daran Norris, our Rabin Masterson
Jeska Bailey Forsyth: https://jeskaatx.com

The finale drops October 24. The full feature-length Movie Cut arrives on Halloween.
Illinois Hell Hole
A Movie for Your Ears
A snarky, entitled Emo musician inherits his parents' farm, discovering a bottomless pit that grants wishes… but only when people are chucked in. Now his wildest dreams are just a few dead bodies away!
A feature-length horror/comedy full-cast ASMR immersive audio extravaganza by Matt Brookens — starring Daran Norris (The Fairly OddParents), Corey Burton (Star Wars, Disney) and Meghan McDonough (Dark Matter).
As featured by
NPR Illinois, Illinois Times, Horror.Kult, The Podcast Geek
CONTACT: illinoishellhole@gmail.com
www.illinoishellhole.com

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Illinois Hell Hole, Ep 7
Fall arrives, and the town psychic Moonglow shows up at the farmhouse with a dusty old tome: The Illustrated Guide to Hell Holes. Ned swears he'll "totally skim it," but its pages lay out the rules of the pit in the cornfield: who it takes, what it costs, and what it means when a stranger from another time shows up with endless money and golden bracelets.

Ned confronts Rabin at the Busted Bottle and finally gets the truth about the man in the vintage suit, and it's closer to home than Ned ever imagined. Back at the farmhouse, someone finds Rucker's hog caller on the mantel. And the book is sitting right there on the couch.

CAST
Corey Burton as the Narrator
Daran Norris as Rabin
Matt Brookens as Ned
Reggie Guyton as Moose
Meghan M. McDonough as Lenore
Kassandra Escandell as Moonglow
Maria Libri as Sheryl
Nitin Sil as Hortense Goodbody

Written and directed by Matt Brookens
Sound mixer: Brian Magrum
Editor: Adam Kunselman
Originally broadcast on NPR Illinois 91.9 FM

SHOUT-OUTS
Nitin Sil, Flashpoint History: [link]
Jeska Bailey Forsyth: https://jeskaatx.com

Two episodes left. The finale drops October 24, and the full Movie Cut drops Halloween.

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Email: IllinoisHellHole@gmail.com
Illinois Hell Hole
A Movie for Your Ears
A snarky, entitled Emo musician inherits his parents' farm, discovering a bottomless pit that grants wishes… but only when people are chucked in. Now his wildest dreams are just a few dead bodies away!
A feature-length horror/comedy full-cast ASMR immersive audio extravaganza by Matt Brookens — starring Daran Norris (The Fairly OddParents), Corey Burton (Star Wars, Disney) and Meghan McDonough (Dark Matter).
As featured by
NPR Illinois, Illinois Times, Horror.Kult, The Podcast Geek
CONTACT: illinoishellhole@gmail.com
www.illinoishellhole.com

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At dawn, Ned joins Rucker, Lenore's new "alpha male" fiancé, in the cornfield to hunt the giant Hogzilla. With the pit to hell waiting deep in the corn, nothing good is going to happen. By nightfall a storm brings a beautiful visitor to the farmhouse door, and Ned has a family question Rabin doesn't want to answer. 

CAST
Corey Burton as the Narrator
Daran Norris as Rabin
Matt Brookens as Ned
Reggie Guyton as Moose
Meghan M. McDonough as Lenore
Keith Compton as Rucker
Jeska Bailey Forsyth as Buella
Guy Forsyth as Fred

Written and directed by Matt Brookens
Sound mixer: Brian Magrum
Editor: Adam Kunselman
Originally broadcast on NPR Illinois 91.9 FM

Shout-out to Keith Compton: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2593787/

New episodes every Saturday through October 24. The full Movie Cut drops Halloween.

Listen free: https://illinoishellhole.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MattBrookensDirect
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All links: https://linktr.ee/mattbrookens
Email: IllinoisHellHole@gmail.com
Illinois Hell Hole
A Movie for Your Ears
A snarky, entitled Emo musician inherits his parents' farm, discovering a bottomless pit that grants wishes… but only when people are chucked in. Now his wildest dreams are just a few dead bodies away!
A feature-length horror/comedy full-cast ASMR immersive audio extravaganza by Matt Brookens — starring Daran Norris (The Fairly OddParents), Corey Burton (Star Wars, Disney) and Meghan McDonough (Dark Matter).
As featured by
NPR Illinois, Illinois Times, Horror.Kult, The Podcast Geek
CONTACT: illinoishellhole@gmail.com
www.illinoishellhole.com

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Ned and Moose enlist a scientist to take a look at this bottomless pit. Lot's of off-putting screaming from down there, but it's probably a wayward badger or a red tail hawk. I mean are we not men of science? 
Then Ned meets Lenore at the Illinois State Fair. Sparks fly as they play the hammer swing. Running into Ned coincidentally again, Rabin encourages him to do the WRONG thing... again. It's like he's intentionally trying to lead Ned down the road to hell or something. 
Illinois Hell Hole
A Movie for Your Ears
A snarky, entitled Emo musician inherits his parents' farm, discovering a bottomless pit that grants wishes… but only when people are chucked in. Now his wildest dreams are just a few dead bodies away!
A feature-length horror/comedy full-cast ASMR immersive audio extravaganza by Matt Brookens — starring Daran Norris (The Fairly OddParents), Corey Burton (Star Wars, Disney) and Meghan McDonough (Dark Matter).
As featured by
NPR Illinois, Illinois Times, Horror.Kult, The Podcast Geek
CONTACT: illinoishellhole@gmail.com
www.illinoishellhole.com