What’cha Watchin’?

Staff writer Richard Whittaker revisits favorite Fantastic Fest films now streaming

"...Barbara Crampton and AJ Bowen reunite this year for psycho-shocker Applecart...."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Column

DVDanger: Buster's Mal Heart

Rami Malek's newest and strangest, plus more home releases

"...about what happened between the original director lineup (American Psycho's Mary Harron, American Mary creators Jen and Sylvia Soska,..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Fills the Card

Massive list includes closing night film

"...by Jean Rollin - the director who put the psycho into psychosexual, and the subject of her new work..."

Sept. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: KINGs and Queens

Kids in a New Groove, Bull McCabe’s bows out, and underground heroes of Austin music

"...Leon Payne: blind songwriter who authored chilling country classic "Psycho."..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Fantastic Fest First Wave Hits Hard

Stephen King adaptations, Arabic cinema, and Three Billboards

"...Ebbing, Missouri, playwright-turned-director Martin McDonagh's follow-up to 2012's Seven Psychopaths. The tale of a very different kind of revenge,..."

Aug. 8, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Willard

1970s rat insanity and its sequel, plus Catfight

"...fault, because Mann isn’t sure whether he’s riffing on Psycho or That Darn Cat!..."

July 29, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sensory Overload

The Hyperreal Film Club summer series at the Museum of Human Achievement

"...difficult to find free events where one might see psychotropic Lithuanian art films paired with live abstract experimental performance...."

June 23, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

So What Is Trainspotting Anyway?

Choose life. Choose a sequel. Choose director Danny Boyle.

"...scene, on a par with Fight Club or American Psycho. Boyle's movie, which came three years later, took Welsh's..."

March 24, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drafthouse Sets Bill Paxton Memorial Screenings

Beloved everyman actor and Texas native passed away Sunday

"...the theatre. I remember the first time I saw Psycho, and there were a lot of movies where the..."

Feb. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...are struggling to stay sober. After meeting in their psychoanalyst’s waiting room, they fall in love, relapse on poppers,..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Arrow to the Brain

Three titles from the American Genre Film Archive's new partner

"...whose title became an insult? OK, I'll spot you Psycho, but chud remains the favored dismissive descriptor for punks..."

Jan. 22, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Horror for the Holidays, Part 1

Vintage re-releases for unseasonal scares

"...If you're looking for Canadian psychotropic 3-D madness … then put on The Mask (aka..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mondo Gallery Turns the Channel to Nickelodeon

Plus exclusive first look at Avatar print

"...Dave Perillo, who heads to O-Town to catch the day-glo-psycho-craziness of Rocko's Modern Life, said he was "thrilled to..."

Dec. 8, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

Plenty of spooktacular events in the weeks ahead

"...Platter and Die Felicia will be serving up sexy psycho killer (see Friday). But if you want something a..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Don Coscarelli Returns With Phantasm: Ravager

Great balls of dire

"...Phantasm saga last century. Yet, 18 years later, the psycho-nightmare of the corpse-stealing, dimension-ripping Tall Man reaches a new..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Charting the Monsters of Fantastic Fest

Here there be movies

Sept. 23, 2016 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Misfits and Ween Incite Riot Fest

Austin’s ones that got away headline in Denver

"...they didn’t touch any Michale Graves material like “American Psycho” or “Dig Up Her Bones.” Instead, it was all..."

Sept. 6, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Trailer Park

First glimpses at three Austin films

"...Segan, at Fantastic Fest last year. Finally, the claustrophobic psycho-thriller gets a limited theatrical release, as well as arriving..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Fantastic Fest 2015 Revisited

With the 2016 lineup here, time for VOD and DVD reruns

"...Zack (Graham Skipper, Almost Human, Carnage Park) is a psychokinetic, who finds himself rousted by the cops. That's their..."

Aug. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Yuppie Pricks Stage RNC Watch Party

Because viewing it alone on C-Span is so depressing

"...Led by Trevor Middleton – Pharma Bro meets American Psycho protagonist Patrick Bateman – the Yuppie Pricks have remained..."

July 18, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Welcome to Carnage Park

Director Mickey Keating's SXSW shocker reaches VOD

"...reaches VOD today, is Keating’s homage to Seventies wilderness psycho-horror and slashers. He originally intended it as a follow-up..."

July 1, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Bill Moseley on being Chop Top, and living as a horror icon

"...lunatic Chop Top is a key reason why the psycho, day-glo, gore-drenched sequel to the original works, and unnerves..."

April 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Justice League vs. Teen Titans

Why is DC Animated better than DC's Cinematic Universe?

"...market. As Susan Scott, she starred in two back-to-back psycho-crime dramas under Ercoli...."

April 19, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...(and an unexpected trick nicked straight from the freshly-published Psycho), it’s an oddly ill-remembered tale of New England sorcery...."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

I Like to Watch

Finding the heart in Syfy's The Magicians

"...away detail and reveal the heart; the worst (American Psycho, Batman v Superman) tend to strip away subtext and..."

April 8, 2016 Screens Post by Jacob Clifton

SXSW Film Review: Carnage Park

Mickey Keating's take on classic American horror

"...of SXSW 2015 hit Pod, and Fantastic Fest 2015 psycho-horror Darling, he goes back to his dusty road trip..."

March 23, 2016 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

I Like to Watch

Girls and Togetherness: straight white people crying

"...in a rare tonal misstep Tina comes off slightly psycho, while Alex's passive-aggressive retreat to his basic Homer Simpson..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

DVDanger: Hellions

We binge-watch this month's horror for you

"...it's got the same frustrating charm as last year's psycho-sexual Gordian knot, Horsehead. It's imperfect, and it's definitely no..."

Feb. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Stories Without Words

Would I miss Israel for Israel? I worried.

"...life joke rolls out. Expecting the shower scene in Psycho, I jumped out of my seat when the detective..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Fox fairies, ultra-violence, and amnesia dominated 2015

"...horrors are a rarity, often merely disguising sexpolitation as psychodrama. There are rare exceptions, like the traumatizing A Serbian..."

Jan. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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