DVDanger: Sasquatch and Zombies and Demons, Oh My!

Let the Halloween countdown commence

"...Halloween is almost upon us. Well, close enough for horror fans to start scheduling their October movie selections...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFF2012: Vampira and He

'Vampira and Me' director R.H. Greene speaks

"...to feminine carnality came not from the usual stack of your neighbor's dad's Playboys but from the pages of..."

Oct. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Organized Chaos (in Tejas)

Q: Just how heavy and hardcore is Austin's first-half-closing festival? A: Chaos in Tejas!

"...Pile II, OBN III's is the Red River equivalent of the Ramones' Rock 'N' Roll High School, with members..."

June 3, 2011 Music Feature

The Stunt Man

William Castle's Gimmick Flicks Live Again!

"...In the fall of 1988, New York City's Film Forum sponsored a two-week..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

The Nun

The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania

"...First off: The Nun is quite likely the best entry in..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Straw Dogs

Rod Lurie remakes Sam Peckinpah's 1971 bloodbath-classic about a home invasion and tapping into man's inner rage monster.

"...Rod Lurie has attempted to capture the same sense of outrage. Peckinpah's film, coming at a truly transgressive moment..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Matinee

This film is a fondly humorous look back at the last gasp of America's innocence, being a kid, and, in particular, monster movies.

"...Dick Miller and John Sayles. Set against the background of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, at a time when..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Relic

Senility and the supernatural in this nerve-wracking Australian horror

"...One of horror's most embedded tropes may be the crazy old..."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Horror at the beginning, horror at the end: After SXSW..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Coprophiliacs looking for a movie that really rings their chimes will be positively tintinnabulating from this arthouse horror number.

"...their chimes will be positively tintinnabulating from this arthouse horror number. The rest of us, well, the rest of..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Darkness Falls

"...true to B-movie form they fail to heed standard horror-movie procedurals and end up sporting non-Norelco furrows on their..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Daringly Perverse

Death chess, incest, maggots, kidnappings, hippies, cannibals, undead babes, Kaufman as a killer, corndogs, and the birth of slash: Halloween home viewing

"...The Black Cat (1934)D: Edward G. Ulmer; with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Jacqueline Wells..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Gamer

Gerard Butler stars in this futuristic thriller set in a multiplayer online gaming universe.

"...is the late Jim McKay's old ABC’s Wide World of Sports opening, "Spanning the globe to bring you the..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rugrats Go Wild

"...hear it for cross-product marketing, shall we? Combining two of their brightest animated kids shows (Rugrats and The Wild..."

June 13, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Feardotcom

"...and Jeffrey Combs. What is it about William Malone's horror knock-offs that makes them so irresistible to big-name actors..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...in the makeshift Tentooine villages return to the end of the line as soon as their current ticket stubs..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Last House on the Left

Louis Black reviews Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, Texas Chain-saw Massacre, and Halloween -- all featured in IFC's new documentary, American Nightmare

"...to be monsters and now it's maniacs. Great American horror films were driven by monsters, nightmare creatures created out..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

The Boy

Horrors: A nanny finds that her new charge is a life-sized doll

"...Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell, Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Jett Klyne and Lily Pater...."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Grindhouse

Grindhouse, which was filmed in Austin, raises the bar for movie showmanship and the theatregoing experience.

"...lore, and accumulative experience are as much a part of the deal as the images that are up on..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bahn, Bahn, Bahn ...

Apparently, most Austinites don't know that New Braunfels' Schlitterbahn Waterpark has a resort.

"..."Whoa, look at that, dude," piped one of the kids from the back seat of the car...."

May 26, 2000 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Joe Lynch Is Bringing Sexy Back With Suitable Flesh

Fantastic Fest veteran gets carnal and cosmic in this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation

"...Joe Lynch seems to love adding the pressure of expectation to his movies. The filmmaker made his Fantastic..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Things That Go Bump in the Blumhouse

As "Oculus" opens, producer Jason Blum on suburbs and franchises

"...favorite thing. Rose says, 'let's get the hell out of this house,' and they move."..."

April 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Night He Came to Fantastic Fest

Genre fest announces Halloween for opening night

"...Halloween is. Fantastic Fest has announced that the revamp of the classic horror franchise, directed by erstwhile Austinite David..."

Aug. 22, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Suitable Flesh

Skinamax and body-swapping horror slide into each other

"...Not just that, but Lynch remembers that one of the absolute masters of sweaty innuendo and lascivious excess..."

Sept. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tribeca Film Review: Suitable Flesh

Heather Graham and Barbara Crampton bring sexy back

"...Not just that, but Lynch remembers that one of the absolute masters of sweaty innuendo and lascivious excess..."

June 30, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Real Monsters

Documentarian John Borowski studies Serial Killer Culture

"...monsters, media obsessions from news to fiction. But society often deems anyone with more than a passing interest as..."

Jan. 10, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

David Gordon Green's Halloween Trailer

First real look at the Austin director's horror classic sequel

"...Horror fans everywhere know that Austin can claim The Texas..."

June 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Guzu Gallery Gives Us Something Spooky

Sneak peeks from tonight's Halloween-themed opening

"...to kickstart your Halloween with some graphic designs. Auteurs of the weird and collectible Guzu Gallery launch their newest..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

October Previews

"...Scripted by Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) from a collection of his short stories, the film is composed as a..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...exception as the festival has just announced The King of Staten Island as one of its Headliner titles...."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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