Danzig at Housecore Horror

Special Samhain set, plus Brian Posehn, Neurosis, and more

"...The Housecore Horror Film Festival remains a place for evil and unique..."

July 16, 2014 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Taking the Temperature of 'Cold in July'

The film based on Joe Lansdale's novel, 'Cold in July,' is a gnarled tale of modern horror

"...His film adaptation of Cold in July is a writhing rattlesnake of Texas..."

May 30, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Unleashing the Fundraising Power of 'Inframan'

Drafthouse screening Hong Kong sci-fi classic for Stephen Romano

"...this that make me feel normal in the middle of all this crap."..."

June 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Violet Crown Introduces Austin's Newest Horror Host

Join the sisterhood of scares at the Roxy Horror Picture Show

"...You can't talk about the history of horror hosts without women. The first ever anchor for..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Gets Infested by Goblin

Seminal Italian band to perform 'Suspiria' soundtrack live

"...The Housecore Horror Film Festival has been threatening to merge music and..."

April 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: A Double Barrel Blast of Begos

Director brings Bliss and VFW to fest

"...He's one of many FF regulars back this year, having made a..."

Sept. 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Terror Fest Review: Church of Misery, Primitive Man, Unearthly Trance, Terminator 2

Indoors at ATF proves horror as sound and sound as feeling

"...taking the infamous serial killer to John Waters heights of filth-filled glee. Given the group’s aberrant subjects – almost..."

June 8, 2019 Music Post by Rick Weaver

The Return of Ted Lasso, the Rescheduled Tokyo Olympics, and 44 Other TV Somethings to Consume in July

Also: a Gossip Girl reboot, dueling Love Islands

"...recommended it to? As its gentle humor and uplift of kindness and decency wash over you, do you wonder..."

July 1, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Robert A. Heinlein's the Puppet Masters

"...Kotto, Richard Belzer and Will Patton. Despite having one of the best theatrical trailers of the year, The Puppet..."

Oct. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Housecore Horror Music Schedule

Full line-ups, plus one-day music passes available now

"...It’s still nearly three months until Housecore Horror, the new fusion horror film/heavy metal festival from the..."

Aug. 12, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Relights the Superjoint

Fest adds Superjoint Ritual, Voivod, and a resurrected Gwar

"...We’ve known for a while that Housecore Horror Film Festival has been hiding something special in its..."

Aug. 19, 2014 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

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

Housecore Horror Gets Loud

Music lineup confirms Ansemlo and Goblin double headers

"...It may call itself the Housecore Horror Film Festival, but with Pantera main man Phil Anselmo..."

June 7, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist

The master filmmaker revealed, under the guise of examining his film.

"...Amorth, about the Vatican's chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth. Of course I said yes. The opportunity to discuss the..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Horror for the Holidays, Part 1

Vintage re-releases for unseasonal scares

"...just around the corner. So, in this new spirit of the season, here's some recent home release recommendations that..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film News: Linklater, Rodriguez, and a Case of Millennium Bugs

Production updates, new releases, and job opportunities

"...Vulcan Video. Writer/director Alejandro Montoya Marín is a graduate of Robert Rodriguez's Rebel Without a Crew reality show, during..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

The Rocky Horror Show

Doctuh Mistuh's visit to the Frankenstein place is delightfully inclusive for die-hard fans and virgins alike

"...she's doing. But virgins, have no fear – Rocky Horror virgins, I mean – Doctuh Mistuh Productions' staging of..."

July 3, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...magnetic north, is a good old fashioned, clutch-the-sheets, double-check-the-locks horror...."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Glow of the Tube

"...Its presence in our lives is remarkable, a kind of great equalizer uniting the largest number of people, giving..."

April 18, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Worlds of Flavor

As a food writer with a special passion for the foods of Southeast Asia, I was excited about the 2000 Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival, Mick Vann writes. My pulse quickened and I salivated uncontrollably every time the possibility of attending crossed my mind. I would love to go, but my financial picture was in its usual bleak and blurry mode. Then came the call from my editor. I had gotten a surprise, last-minute press pass.

"...food writer with a special passion for the foods of Southeast Asia, I was excited about the 2000 Worlds..."

March 23, 2001 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Page Two: "I Got Vision, and the Rest of the World Wears Bifocals"

A conversation with Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Louis Black: excerpts

"...to Be Blue and stars in In a Valley of Violence, a spaghetti Western. Richard Linklater: dream is destiny,..."

March 4, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Steve Davis’s Top 10 Films of 2021

"...about an institutionally trapped Princess Diana. 2) The Killing of Two Lovers..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Fantasia Review: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson

A life in the grindhouse is not obscured by a tragic death

"...not cross the line into exploitation? In the case of Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death..."

Aug. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

God Help Us

Austinite Stephen Romano's psychotic collaboration with Don Coscarelli launches Showtime's 'Masters of Horror' series

"...Screenwriter Stephen Romano's house once so unnerved a girlfriend of mine that she left me. No kidding. Sure, there..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Urban Legends: Final Cut

"...Directed by: John Ottman. Starring: Loretta Devine, Marco Hofschneider, Michael Bacall, Anthony Anderson, Jessica Cauffiel, Eva Mendez, Anson..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Guest

With their follow-up to You're Next, filmmakers Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett prove the new kings of indie horror movies.

"...The badass, genre-scrambling team of Adam Wingard (directing) and Simon Barrett (writing) continues to..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...Will 2011 go down as the year the Austin horror filmmaking community definitively established itself as a vital hub..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

Tracing horror's evolution from the camp-serious bastions of Roger Corman to the post-countercultural killing fields of The Last House on the Left and on

"...Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horrorby Jason Zinoman Penguin, 272 pp., $25.95..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

13 Assassins

The prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike takes a turn toward the truly epic with this classically styled samurai picture.

"...counting on the Internet Movie Database!) is a remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film of the same name. It's..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Digging Up the Marrow

Adam Green on the long and very personal path of his new feature

"...If indie horror was Game of Thrones, Adam Green makes as strong..."

March 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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