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1983 is back from the grave
"...machine. Two, deal with the horned one. Three, astonishing horror director. Considering what a masterful retro supernatural chiller it..."
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Sept. 30, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Fantastic Fest: Macabre
Indonesian horror hits a deep vein of social commentary
"...Indonesia has a history of stripped-down and cheerfully gonzo horror and exploitation. Macabre may put the Southeast Asian nation..."
Sept. 29, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Beware: Bigfoot Ahead
The homegrown horror of The Wild Man of Navidad
"...studies at the feet of the master. The wannabe horror filmmaker goes to Kim Henkel. That was exactly the..."
Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell
You So Crazy!
The Great Derangement
"...us the re-release and thereby insured our future in horror film geekery. Needless to say, we've dug hell out..."
May 15, 2008 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
The Big Pitch
A horror film starring UT students aiming for the big screen
"...– maybe altogether naked. Everybody laughs, points. It's a horror film, got it? Imagine University of Texas Film Institute..."
May 19, 2006 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell
You Are There!
The bottom of the barrel isn't low enough for local TV news
"...in hazmat suits. All the stations jumped on the Horror in Hutto once the city announced plans for a..."
June 10, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass
Vampire in Brooklyn
"...Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison and Zakes Mokae. Horror comedies are a schizophrenic lot: More often then not,..."
Oct. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Unrelentingly Hostile: Editor's Cut
This is an extended version of the story that ran in the print edition.
"...[Ed. note: The Seventies and Eighties saw the horror movie redefined yet again. Few other film genres are..."
Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black
The First Omen
Gruesome gynohorror prequel to 1976’s satanic masterpiece The Omen
"...from Arkasha Stevenson. Even though she proved her hardcore horror credentials with “Butcher's Block,” the macabre third season of..."
April 5, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Blood on the Controller With The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Who will play, and what will become of them?
"...fans who wanted to step into their favorite Texas horror franchise had exactly one option: 1983's The Texas Chainsaw..."
Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle
Saint Maud
Agony and ecstasy intertwined in this horror as Catholic angst turns self-destruction
"...In keeping with the best arthouse horror traditions, Saint Maud walks a fine line between the..."
Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Warning: Do Not Play
South Korean horror is really about the terror of filmmaking failure
"...Warning: Do Not Play, the latest from South Korean horror director Kim Jin-won, is born of those thoughts, some..."
June 12, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The Invisible Man
Universal Monsters update thrills as a high-octane Gaslight
"...gaslighting. Hot on the heels of the outstanding winter horror The Lodge comes The Invisible Man, the latest attempt..."
Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Out of the Shadow
Which new scary-programming cable channel will
longtime Austin access host Joseph Fotinos choose?
"...Mancini et al.) got me hooked on cathode ray horror shows and beyond, an ill-received – through a bent..."
Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Joe Lansdale
The Hardest Working Unknown Author?
"...he loves and grew up reading: hard-boiled crime novels, horror yarns, a slew of both fiction and non-fiction western..."
Aug. 22, 1997 Books Feature by Marc Savlov
Scream
Ghostface is back in the serial killer/movie nerd franchise
"...always going to feel sad. One of the few horror franchises that kept the same director over time, Craven..."
Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf
The Unholy
Messy Catholic horror is weighed down by becoming a creature feature
"...something refreshing about watching a studio dump a mediocre horror movie in theaters during the first quarter of the..."
April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
The Queen of Black Magic
Grisly Indonesian horror remake knows when to go gonzo
"...If there are two signatures to Indonesian horror, they would be an overwhelming sense of relentless dread,..."
Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos
The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009
"...True horror lies beyond the boundaries of the silver screen, a..."
Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Seven Days in Heaven and Hell
Getting a white-knuckled grip on the third annual Fantastic Fest
"..."I love this movie. It works as a straight-ahead J-horror type movie. It tweaks and mocks all of the..."
Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Unrelentingly Hostile
Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.
"...[Ed. note: The Seventies and Eighties saw the horror movie redefined yet again. Few other film genres are..."
Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black
Raising the Dead
Actor Joseph Fotinos Wants to Resurrect Local Television
"...figures and toys, and displayed in a collection of horror-movie memorabilia in the "Monster Room" of his South Austin..."
July 6, 2001 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta
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
Habitual
Overstuffed indie horror is like watching an OSHA violation
"...abandoned mental hospital? The producers of Habitual, a new horror film from Charlestown, Mass. native Johnny Hickey (Oxy-Morons), are..."
Nov. 13, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Attack of the Demons
Animated horror creates a new genre: cardgore!
"...Horror and animation have always possessed near-untapped potential. While an..."
Oct. 30, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Blood Quantum
Pioneering First Nation zombie film rips the genre away from traditional hands
"...from this place of familiarity. We recognize the dawning horror of the those first few hours and expect to..."
May 8, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Future's So Brite
I Love the Scent of Burning Flesh...
"...previous short story collection and novels were marketed to horror fans, her fiction outstrips the genre trappings of contemporaries..."
Oct. 25, 1996 Books Feature by Marc Savlov
DVDanger: From the Dark
Star and director talk monsters, mud, and New Kids on the Block
"...McMahon is part of the new wave of Irish horror directors like Jon Wright (Grabbers), David Keating (Wake Wood),..."
April 11, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
DVDanger: 'Holliston' / 'Knights of Badassdom'
A double bill of Joe Lynch genre comedies
"...directed by Chillerama co-creator Joe Lynch, one of the horror-comedy crowd's favorite directors...."
April 12, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Screamlines
"...as a kid and still stands as my favorite horror movie. Everyone wanted to write on The Lost Boys,..."
