Red Rooms

Disturbing courtroom drama with a sickening psychological twist

"...fetishization – and it's the central enigma of French-Canadian chiller Red Rooms, a disturbing courtroom drama with a sickening..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Elevator Game

Goofy horror-comedy transitions to ghoulish chiller at the flick of a switch

"...fun comedy-horror for its first half into a ghoulish chiller for its closing act...."

Sept. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Nightmare Alley: Vision In Darkness And Light

Del Toro's sideshow noir gets a monochrome transfer

"...of his new adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham's sideshow chiller. Read our full review at austinchronicle.com/screens...."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review

Signs

"...(although they're more universal than specific) and an outright chiller. Set almost entirely on a farm smack dab in..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Village of the Damned

"...and Mark Hamill. Carpenter's updating of the classic 1960 chiller is mediocre at best, and at times plummets into..."

April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...(March 8-17) announced that Jordan Peele's eagerly awaited doppelganger chiller Us will be this year's opening night movie, today..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Patrick' Is a Solid Little Creepfest

Ozploitation psychic killer classic remade and revamped

"...Quite Hollywood, turns storyteller for a remake of classic chiller Patrick, expectations are going to be higher than a..."

Sept. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

Crooner Chris Isaak plays himself to charming effect on his self-titled Showtime series.

"...children of the night, horror movie show hosts. The Chiller Thriller Museum opens in October 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio,..."

June 7, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Growing Pains

Emily Hagins became a household Austin name for her work as a teen director, but what happens when that novelty wears off?

"...Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear anthology for the Chiller cable network, and then her fourth feature, which was..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Culture Flash!

Deadline for the Texas State Auditions, Armadillo artist Danny Garrett gets his own day, proposals for the Mueller public art project are presented, and Ann Adams' 'Big Chiller Blues' gets hot press

"...• Speaking of AIPP, Ann Adams' Big Chiller Blues was selected for the Public Art Network's "2006..."

July 7, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Last Rights

"...had carried out their plans to install a big chiller plant on top of the structure. (The most recent..."

Oct. 5, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Exorcism

A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror

"...Exorcism feels similar to that of Takashi Miike’s theatrical chiller Over Your Dead Body, both films being about a..."

June 21, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Invader

Chicago-set horror from the director of Offseason.

"...his most minimalist work since his 2015 alien invasion chiller Pod. Since that breakthrough, he's played around with wildly..."

March 15, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Royal Hotel

Disturbing trip to the sexist outback is cut short by a simplistic ending

"...silent pressures of institutionalized misogyny in the post-Weinstein corporate chiller The Assistant, and here she reunites with star Julia..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes

There's something creepy in this Eurosleaze castle

"...German microbudget chiller Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes begins with all the..."

July 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Black Phone

Ethan Hawke is a villain for the ages in this brilliant horror

"...name, it's a hybrid. While Sinister was a supernatural chiller of demonic assault, The Black Phone injects the uncanny..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Long Night

Evil rules in the occult South

"...a sequel to Taylor-Compton and Ragsdale's previous collaboration, Thai-set chiller Ghosthouse) has the common sense and good grace not..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Agnes

Sleazy, sexy, bawdy and surprising look at religion, lust, and power

"...Climate of the Hunter. Yet the excellence of religious chiller Agnes finally means you can mark me as a..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

6:45

Time loop horror relives a perfect and perfectly terrifying day

"...and even the splattery Happy Death Day films), but chrono-chiller 6:45 finds the trauma in the repetition...."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Censor

British video nasty throwback finds the real danger was in the cuts

"...Smiley, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Clare Holman and Andrew Havill...."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Toll

A rideshare into cosmic horror is just worth paying attention

"...like Baskin, or the recent remake of Indonesian rural chiller The Queen of Black Magic. The practical effects are..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Seventh Day

Training Day meets The Exorcist

"...him under Peter's decidedly unpriestly demeanor then middling supernatural chiller The Seventh Day would barely raise a flutter of..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Vast of Night

Jaw-dropping reinvention of the UFO scare genre is audacious and brilliant

"...an episode of Paradox Theatre, a Twilight Zone-style late-night chiller series that would come in, hazy and grainy, over..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Hole in the Ground

Something evil in the Irish countryside

"...few years. Melding the quiet claustrophobia of bog vampire chiller From the Dark with the maternal phobias of A..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Knuckleball

Southern Gothic in in the Canadian heartland

"...the tractor wheel here, but it's undoubtedly a well-executed chiller, once Dixon realizes exactly how much power he has...."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Things That Go Bump

Ghosts, nightmares, and flashlights in this horror roundup

"...The film reunites the creative force behind another Chiller Network title, 2012's Dead Souls. Again, director Colin Theys..."

May 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Halloween'/'Prince of Darkness'/'Eyes Without a Face'

Three throwback horrors for your Halloween pleasure

"...because it's easy to forget how much Carpenter's classic chiller changed the slashing game. There had been plenty of..."

Oct. 29, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

FF2012: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for 'The American Scream'

Fantastic Fest premieres home Halloween haunt doc

"...the day after the premiere, Stephenson credited TV network Chiller for "taking a little of a departure from what..."

Sept. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ParaNorman

The animation outfit behind Coraline scores another one for the dark side with this endearingly sweet and spooky ode to the supernatural.

"...spot-on, and elder "monster kids" who grew up watching Chiller Theatre and such will immediately recognize some of their..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Frailty

"...to mind Steve Kloves' Flesh and Bone, another Texas chiller that relies on a “sins of the father” motif,..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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