The Blair Witch Project

Something wicked in the woods in this eagerly-awaited horror.

"...and Daniel Myrick. Starring: Joshua Leonard, Michael Williams and Heather Donahue...."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summoning the Blair Witch

Into the woods with Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard

"...Love it or hate it, The Blair Witch Project birthed a genre, and any sequel..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Two

"...Jeffrey Donovan and Kim Director. Is Book of Shadows the best comedy of the year? Or the worst horror..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blair Witch

Stay out of the (noisy) woods

"...There’s something creaky in the woods, and splintery, booming, and..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fourth Kind

This pseudo-mockumentary starring Milla Jovovich echoes both The Blair Witch Project and The X-Files.

"...Koteas, Will Patton and Hakeem Kae-Kazim. Arriving with possibly the cheekiest film title of the year, The Fourth Kind..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Woods

World Witch Web

"...a flotilla of fan Web sites lovingly devoted to their movie months before the actual film even opens? Okay,..."

July 16, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Around the World of Weird

The many genre delights of Fantastic Fest 2008

"...this year's Australian-exploitation film overload, postapocalyptic vehicular car-nage via the ever-mad Max Rockatansky), this year's Fantastic Fest will turn..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Future of Film on the Web

Part I: The means

"...The Web was going to be a bottomless well of..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Ring

An urban myth about a videotape that causes the death of anyone who watches it is given a good workout in this American remake of the Japanese horror sensation.

"...Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox and David Dorfman. The less said about The Ring, the better for you,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Walking the Straight Edge

Texas Documentary Tour brings Jem Cohen's documentary on Fugazi, Instrument, to the Alamo Drafthouse.

"...In the early-to-mid-Eighties, Washington, D.C., played a role on the global..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Year of Being John Malkovich

Top 10 Films of the Year, Decade, and Eternity

"...proclaiming 1999 as a good year for movies, citing the number of excellent films released during the past months..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: The Atticus Institute

Or, in defense of found footage and mockumentaries

"...In the 1990s, it was predictable that a slew of unmemorable,..."

Jan. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Last Exorcism

This faux documentary pulls few punches in its fresh look at what happens when religion and the secular world collide.

"...Jones, Tony Bentley and Shanna Forrestall. Every generation gets the devil it deserves, and this faux documentary pulls few..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Haunting

"...Directed by: Jan De Bont. Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Marian Seldes, Bruce Dern, Lili Taylor,..."

July 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Woods, In Search of Sator

The secret family history behind Jordan Graham's supernatural horror

"...in a spirit that communicated with her that became the core of Sator, the supernatural woodland horror created by..."

April 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'The Lords of Salem'

Or, in defense of Rob Zombie as a filmmaker

"...I have a serious question: What is it about the fact that Rob Zombie makes horror movies that drives..."

Sept. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Long Trip up the 'Dark Mountain'

Writer/director Tara Anaïse brings her wilderness horror to Austin

"...If there are two terrible fears to combine, it's claustrophobia and..."

July 29, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Breaking the Internet With Neill Blomkamp's Demonic

Terror and terabytes create a new vision of possession

"...The supernatural and technology seem mutually exclusive, divided between faith..."

Aug. 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

"...The years change, the decades fall away, but here at..."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jonathan Majors, Janet and John Pierson, Michael De Luca Honored by the Texas Film Awards

Marvel’s Kang, indie champs and Oscar-nominated producer head to Luck

"...The year of Jonathan Majors continues. Not only is he..."

Jan. 10, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sourcing 'The Signal'

William Eubank flips the switch

"...writer/director William Eubank to describe his new science-fiction puzzle, The Signal, and he thinks of a Russian nesting doll...."

June 13, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: From the Dark

Star and director talk monsters, mud, and New Kids on the Block

"...When writer/director Conor McMahon created new vampire flick From the Dark, he deliberately stripped its down to the barest..."

April 11, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Digging Up the Marrow

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

"...Thrones, Adam Green makes as strong a case for the iron throne as anyone. His latest, Digging Up the..."

March 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...by Marjorie Baumgarten, Sarah Hepola, Marcel Meyer, and Jessica..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

The Outwaters

A trip to the desert becomes a found footage nightmare collage

"...That seems to be the thinking behind The Outwaters, director Robbie Banfitch's found footage..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Found Footage Phenomenon

New documentary unspools the reels of fake-real films

"...Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the twisted roots of cinema’s found footage genre were already..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Kid's Got Moxie!

Man of the Century director Adam Abraham talks about old-style Hollywood panache, the precarious nature of a career in independent cinema, and a little film that could -- and did.

"...You've probably never heard of Man of the Century. Of all the trailers you've sat through and..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Spatial Engineer of the Invisible City

He is everywhere. He is unavoidable. He is Tha' Subliminal Kid.

"...I'll make you a universe," DJ Spooky writes in the liner notes of his 1996 Songs of a Dead..."

March 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Big Picture

Fall Movie Preview

"...Here at the Chronicle, we're great anticipators. You know, we anticipate weekends..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

The Outwaters' Experiment in Terror

Writer/director/star Robbie Banfitch draws inspiration from found footage and arthouse forebears

"...At first glance, The Outwaters, writer/director Robbie Banfitch's polarizing new film, seems like..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Alejandra Martinez

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