My pix from Impress These Apes Season 4 Show 4: Horror Films

(Full Flickr set here.) Last night was the mid-point of the fourth year of Impress These Apes, show #4, and the talent was Horror Movie. The puny human slaves, aka contestants, were partnered up and challenged to complete a 10 minute horror movie. Between crafting their ideas and still doing things like going to 9-5 jobs, most of them were editing up until the wee hours of the morning yesterday, so after the show the crowd dispersed earlier than usual, but their efforts were clearly worth it. The Apes treated us puny human audience members to popcorn and milk duds, and it was an awesome night as usual.

Ken Barnard as Beauty Pageant Host and Jim Fath as Future Human:


Steve Gadlin as Barry Shirley, Paul Luikart as Captain Apehab, and Bryan Bowden as Bushmeat:


Michelle Renee Thompson and Chelsea Devantes:


And their video:


Thomas Wittington and Kelly Beeman:


And their video:


Scott Whitehair and Chad Briggs:


And their video:


Christina Boucher and Daniel Kibblesmith:


And their video:


Bryan as Bushmeat. (Is it weird that I still find him cute when he's being a redneck ape? That's not usually my type.)


And the final moment of terror for the contestants, the announcement of next week's challenge: their biggest performance fear, which they were unfortunate enough to tell the apes during their videotaped auditions. I say it every week: these contestants have major huevos. I wouldn't even be able to handle the audition process, let alone being an Apes contestant and coming up with something awesome every time with 7 days' notice.