Point Austin: American Horror Story

What can you say when you can't say "It's Only a Movie"?

"...what we'd missed. That's a procedure normally reserved for American Horror Story...."

Oct. 14, 2016 News Column by Michael King

American Animals

Truth, lies, and self-deception in this remarkable true-crime docudrama

"...primary documents and firsthand accounts. Like any piece of storytelling, though, documentaries involve choices. Subjects recount their version of..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

American Nightmare

A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.

"...as it simultaneously screened during the Austin Film Festival, American Nightmare premiered on the Independent Film Channel, the network..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: American Animals

A docudrama as audacious as the heist it re-creates

"...genre-bending documentaries like SXSW 2012's deceptive The Imposter. In American Animals, he experiments again with the hybridization of documentary,..."

March 19, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...Fantastic Fest – the Austin-based film festival dedicated to horror, sci-fi, action, and other genre offerings – has announced..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: All This Horror Business

Catching up with the major terror releases

"...legendary 75-year-old Italian director last year during the Housecore Horror Film Festival, and he insisted on taking iPhone pictures..."

July 26, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...studio produced a handful of shocking, daring and bizarre horror films...."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

American Movie

"...scarecrow-thin 30-year-old scratching out dialogue revisions to a crappy horror film for which his highest aspiration is video-only release...."

Nov. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Very Jewish Horror in Attachment

Filmmaker Gabriel Bier Gislason discusses cultural authenticity

"...Catholicism has ruined the supernatural. Too many horror films in too many cultures are basically The Exorcist..."

April 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

More Gore From Housecore Horror

New film fest adds more classics plus a locally lensed premiere

"...Corey Mitchell cracking the whip at the new Housecore Horror Film Festival, it's no shocker that the Louisiana-set, Austin-filmed..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

American Filmmaker

Chris Smith's American Movie depicts one man's passionate struggle to make a film.

"...drunk, and permanently possessed, Mark Borchardt is a distinctive American character, one who defies all obstacles (external and internal)..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: The Story of Cinema, Part One

Four documentaries examine four film legacies

"...Take Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th, an epic documentary chronicling the..."

Sept. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'American Mary'/'Ninja III: The Domination'

The changing POV of the female revenge flick

"...potboiler Ninja III: The Domination and Canadian psycho-surgical creeper American Mary, she has finally started to control her own..."

June 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Things Not To Fear: 1) The Reaper, 2) The World Horror Convention in Austin

An Interview with Convention co-chairs Nate Southard and Lee Thomas

"...and Lee Thomas, the co-chairs of the annual World Horror Convention that's invading – like some chthonic force rising..."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Horror Anthology Scare Package Comes Home For Other Worlds

Laughs and screams in Under Worlds center piece film

"...ready for a surprise! Scare Package, the Austin-made anthology comedy-horror, will get its home town debut next month as..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Horror Director Larry Fessenden Gets Depraved

Indie cinema's king of fear on creating a very modern Prometheus

"...made a career finding the intersection of humanity and horror. With Depraved, his modern version of Frankenstein, where terms..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Prepárate Para Tener Miedo With New Horror Anthology Satanic Hispanics

Segment directors on celebrating Latino diversity through terror

"...to prove that there's no such thing as Latino horror. Or, rather, there's not a singular Latino horror. Instead,..."

Nov. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2014: Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD

Marvel? DC? Pshaw! 2000AD is the law

"...decades after its inception. Future Shock! is the unexpurgated story of one of the medium's most influential titles...."

Sept. 22, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest: 'Fish Story'

J-horror director Nakimura goes punk

"...has thus far been his work in the classic J-horror vein via Dark Water, this hyper-melodic paeon to obscurantist..."

Oct. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

A New History, A New Horror in The Terror: Infamy

Showrunner Alex Woo recreates the nightmare of the internment camps

"...The Terror: Infamy, the second season of AMC's historical horror hybrid. In the first season, the show extrapolated an..."

Aug. 12, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Encyclopedic and engrossing wander into the wilderness

"...The story is folklore. It is the wisdom of the people,..."

Sept. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Horror in 150 Words or Less

Putting a stake through some recent terror releases

"...novella The Last Illusion, this is Barker creating a horror hero. Scott Bakula plays Harry D'Amour, a New York..."

Dec. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Horror, the Horror

William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist and screenwriter of the infamously terrifying film, discusses the recently released The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen and his life on both sides of the camera.

"...me on the show was the head of the story department at Columbia Pictures whose wife, apparently, thought I..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Panel Recap: The Bleeding Edge: A New Generation of Horror

Is horror more diverse than the rest of cinema? Maybe.

"...The man behind horror heavy hitters Blumhouse is producing some of the most..."

March 14, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The True Story of the Somewhat Lost Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger star in this largely forgotten sequel

"...Sixties idealism. Leatherface and the Sawyer clan were the all-American nuclear family gone haywire, a perfect metaphor for the..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Horror for the Holidays Part II

New chillers and shockers to get you through the season

"...share: bee-keeping, folklore, and slavery. However, this isn't the American South. Instead, first-time feature directors Rodrigo Gasparini and Dante..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Art the Clown Became a Horror Icon

Slasher epic Terrifier 2 breaks all the rules, but director Damien Leone is just telling the story he wants to tell

"...think of a run time. That was organically the story that came out of me."..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

American Caste

"...more unsettling and primitive. They evoke a kind of horror and dread. They unsettle sleep. They reveal a fact..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Ricardo Ainslie

Chaz Bono Is All About That Cult Life in Reboot Camp

Come and join us!

"...ready to try after doing a dramatic turn in American Horror Story: Cult. His character in AHS (Gary Longstreet)..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Screens Feature by James Scott

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.

"...We Need To Talk About Kevin is a modern American horror story, and one that in the wake of..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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