Blood & Concrete: A Love Story

"...that's all in the first 24 hours, mind you. Blood & Concrete's storyline may at first glance seem more..."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Unlike Twilight, the other vampire series based on young adult novels, Cirque du Freak isn't afraid to laugh at itself or the conventions of the genre.

"...teenagers – the heroine's un-Lucky Brand jeans. (HBO's True Blood fits in there nicely as well.) On the other..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stressed Out? Let Your Freak-Out Flag Fly!

Making stress into a friend instead of a foe

"...ago, we fell off a cliff into a collective freak-out, and here we are today, still falling. The stress..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

Luv Doc Recommends: Second Annual Freak Show Festival

Fourth & Waller, Saturday, October 15, 2011

"...a haystack. Plus, once you've cashed in on your blood donation, you get an even better buzz from the..."

Oct. 14, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Don't Everybody Freak Out

Dark Matters' horror shows

"...Scooter Downey's full metal creepout It's in the Blood builds on an initially unclear but obviously tense relationship..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Blood & Fire

Manu Chao's ACL, ACL aftershow, and everything in-between.

"...of musical Navy SEALs barely had time to draw blood. At the point of encore, they almost had to..."

Sept. 22, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Blood Freak

Blood Freak

"...Blood FreakD: Brad Grinter, Steve Hawkes (1971); with Hawkes, Dana..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Stoker

Starring Nicole Kidman, this first English-language outing of Korean fave Park Chan-wook is stylish but wanting.

"...hotdogging camerawork. When India’s beloved father dies in a freak accident, her Uncle Charlie (Goode) – whom she’s never..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Man With the Iron Fists

Wu-Tang Clan firebrand RZA branches out into directing a martial arts film.

"...film’s producers and co-wrote the screenplay with RZA), RZA’s blood-drenched ode to his most beloved of all film genres..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

78/52

An effusive doc on the shower scene from Psycho

"...paper in a flushed toilet presage the eddy of blood-soaked water swirling down the bathtub drain. While some of..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Vampire Academy

This month's flavor in the teen vampire continuum.

"...Based on Richelle Mead’s bloodlusty and wildly popular series of young adult novels, Vampire..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

This long-awaited follow-up to Troy Duffy's violent, pulpy cult original is dead on arrival.

"...Marley, Brian Mahoney and David Ferry. Director Duffy's wickedly bloodthirsty and strangely humorous The Boondock Saints was a cult..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Caught Up

"...diamonds, unlawful activities in rented limousines, a lisping L.A. freak, Uzi-toting Rastafarian avengers, and -- in what has got..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Qmmunity: I Yam Who I Yam

Editor James contemplates what constitutes part of a trans identity and complains about blood draws.

"...The other week, I got my blood taken to test my testosterone levels. We love a..."

March 22, 2024 Column by James Scott

Cooties

A horror-comedy about kids turning to zombies and the teachers they hope to feast on

"...more accidentally transgressive horrorshows such as the 1972 hippie freakout Blood Freak (the yuks in that uniquely bizarre film..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Punk Weirdos Big Bill Finally Unleash Their Inner LP

Reining in the freak show while doubling down on the absurd

"...with his first band ended in a gush of blood and affirmation...."

Jan. 12, 2018 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Scott H. Biram: No Regrets/Yes Regrets

Q&A about gritty bluesman’s new ‘Nothin’ But Blood’

"...metal into a high proof hooch on Nothin’ But Blood, his ninth LP and fifth for Chicago roots imprint..."

Feb. 4, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Zach Theatre's Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill

A fierce portrait of Billie Holiday painted in blood and pain

"...Bar & Grill had to offer us was the freak-show rush of watching a great talent at the end..."

June 23, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Horror Crew Launch Bloodoath Filmmaker Consulting

Paper Street creatives join forces with genre experts

"...consultancy firm for horror filmmakers, and they've called it Blood Oath...."

Nov. 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Recommends: Bird Movies

Let us give you the bird

"...with that legendary souse, Oliver Reed. – Kimberley Jones Blood Freak (1972)..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Alamo Summer of '82: "Do You Want to Live Forever?"

Alamo '82 debuts with 'Conan the Barbarian'

"...alongside Bryan Connolly via John Milius's Conan the Barbarian. Blood, sweat, and tears (although not Conan's): truly there is..."

May 11, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

35 Recommended SXSW Music Acts

From rock to new age to Irish traditional, these are the incoming artists to see

"...style agnosticism across the pond.   – Carys Anderson blood club..."

March 7, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

The Gray Band

How can a band singing almost exclusively about serial killers engender so much life?

"...Titles, they stuck: "Shotgun Boogie," "Blood Sucking Freak," "Born To Raise Hell." Work's tunnel vision..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sxsw

"...pounder "I'm on Fire," and probably 12 since his freak, mid-Eighties MTV hit, "Girls." So, yeah, Twilley is due..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Page Two: The Stravinsky Theory

The healing power of prescience, set on "repeat"

"...been listening to since I first heard it on Freak Out!, the Mothers of Invention's first album, maybe four..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...he goes to a doctor. After four months of blood tests, nerve tests, sticking, and poking, the answer is..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column

Complete Freedom

A profile of Bad Livers banjo player Danny Barnes

"...worshiped these guys. My father was a real music freak...."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Lux Æterna

A strange change of tone defines Gaspar Noé's half-a-film

"...madness. It's a setup that resonates with his drug freak-out fizzle Climax, but while that was style drowning substance,..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...strand, eagerly-anticipated Bruce Lee cultural biography Be Water, and Freak Power, Robert Kennedy III's long-rumored documentary about the gonzo..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Seed of Chucky

Over-the-top gore is the rule when Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their anatomically incorrect offspring.

"...Tiffany (Tilly), scampers about waylaying clueless bystanders and splattering blood all over the grand draperies of life. This outing..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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