The House of the Devil

This retro horror film is the freakiest and most unnerving shocker in theatres this season.

"...when he attempted to have his credit removed from the sequel to Eli Roth's Cabin Fever on the grounds..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest: 'House of the Devil'

1983 is back from the grave

"...There are three theories about how Ti West made House..."

Sept. 30, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dispatch From the Land of the Deranged

Taibbi takes on American crazies

"...do John Hagee's "Christian Zionist" San Antonio megachurch, 9/11 Truthers, and the U.S. Congress -- notably, among them, Texas..."

June 5, 2008 Books Post by Jordan Smith

Page Two: The Time of the Toad

The New McCarthyism, or why the way the Dixie Chicks incident passes into history matters

"..."Some time before he became involved in the Dreyfus Affair, Emile Zola wrote an article called 'The..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The Devil's Candy

Heavy metal and Satanism in a rural Texas town

"...Here’s more proof – if any were needed – that the Lord..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Live-Tweet The Devil's Candy With Us

Crank it up to 11 for this horror-metal medley

"...Like horror? Like metal? Like live-tweets? Then you better be ready to rock out against evil..."

May 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Devil in Us All

Butch Hancock, like Leo Tolstoy and Bob Dylan, takes on this political world

"..."If you still allow yourself to condone all the infamies, all the atrocities, of this Antichrist – on..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

FF2012: 'Here Comes the Devil'

Fantastic Fest fave Bogliano delivers demon family dynamics

"...Rule number one of demonology – and demon-fueled horror – is 'Never let..."

Oct. 2, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2015: The Devil's Candy

Heavy metal against Satan in Austin-filmed horror

"...in hand, but it also has a horrible history of turning gore into cheese (cough cough Trick or Treat..."

Oct. 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Devil's Double

Saddam Hussein's decadent and monstrous eldest son Uday forced Latif Yahia to serve as his body double, and this movie recounts his experience.

"...Raad Rawi, Mem Ferda, Philip Quast and Nasser Memarzia. The devil in this story is Uday Hussein, the notoriously..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

Ethan Embry Licks The Devil's Candy

Cheap Thrills star on his very heavy metal Austin horror

"...and through. He said, "I grew up with Master of Puppets on a Sony Walkman, riding my BMX bike..."

March 31, 2017 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

Danny Kiranos Finds Moral Ground in the Murder Folk of Amigo the Devil

Visceral songwriter mines darkness in the human condition

"...How often do you think about death?..."

April 23, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...Grindhouse, as you probably know, is a celebration of a..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Devil's Rejects

A viciously entertaining psycho-road-movie-revenge-‘n’-wreckage-romance.

"...Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Ken Foree, Matthew McGrory, Leslie Easterbrook, William Forsythe, Michael Berryman, Mary Woronov,..."

July 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: The Return of Artsploitation

Indie label returns with three psychosexual horrors

"...respite from mainstream cinema, or even mainstream indie cinema, there's a whole globe of bizarre and envelope-pushing movies. The..."

June 17, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

IV, III, II, I... Contact! The Latest in the Williams Country Music Dynasty is Keeping Things Warm in Some Very Long Shadows

Coleman Williams talks moving forward with an open mind

"...would want to be limited to someone else's idea of what their art should be, right?..."

Nov. 23, 2021 Music Post by Gary Lindsey

SXSW Review: 'The Lords of Salem'

A series of micro-nightmares bolstered by Rob Zombie's style

"...The former White Zombie frontman and one Hollywood's few directors..."

March 13, 2013 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

The Devil in the Details

Council faces a daunting slate of work sessions

"...Currently standing at a baker's dozen of meetings (including one meeting-within-meeting as the board of the..."

Aug. 5, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

The Devil in the Details

aRoma still needs to iron out the kinks

"...aRoma Italian Kitchen is part of the rapidly changing landscape along a busy South Austin..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Children of the Grave

Black Sabbath sunders the Frank Erwin Center

"...“Let me hear you!,” bellowed Ozzy Osbourne behind the black scrim boxing the Erwin Center stage Saturday night...."

July 28, 2013 Music Post by Michael Toland

SXSW: Jeff Daniel Phillips Fears 'The Lords of Salem'

How a caveman walked with a Zombie

"...Don't let the title fool you. There are few lords in Rob..."

March 11, 2013 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Duality of Southwest Key

An East Austin nonprofit in the immigration debate

"...An oversized mural, of children enjoying outdoor activities, adorns the side of South­west..."

June 29, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

The Flesh and the Faith of 'We Are What We Are'

Director Jim Mickle on remakes, religion, and America's dark history

"...vampire tropes with 2010's Stake Land, horror fans lauded the arrival of a radical new talent. So there were..."

Oct. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Man Behind the Leatherface Mask

Gunnar Hansen signing "Chain Saw Confidential" at Bookpeople Sunday

"...Gunnar Hansen joined a little independent horror film called The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as the hulking butcher Leatherface...."

Sept. 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All Hail 'The Lords of Salem'

Rob Zombie on his fifth feature, a decade in the making

"...Rob Zombie admits it: "I've always been obsessed with the bad characters." His first four turns as a film..."

April 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Portrait of the Artist as an Old Crank

Sketches of R. Crumb

"...Robert Crumb laughs a lot. In virtually every scene of Crumb, Terry Zwigoff's absorbing film portrait, the infamous comics..."

June 30, 1995 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Empathy for the Devil

Discourse on Evil

"...Memnoch the Devil..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Books Feature

Public Notice: Mobility and the Devil

Only Uber and Lyft can bring back Uber and Lyft

"..."The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you..."

May 13, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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