DVDanger: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

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

"...The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has been called the grandfather..."

April 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The True Story of the Somewhat Lost Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger star in this largely forgotten sequel

"..."August 18, 1973. News of a bizarre, chainsaw-wielding family – reports of which were to ignite the..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Bulgarian Chainsaw Massacre

David Blue Garcia proves you can take Leatherface out of Texas in the new Netflix horror Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"...David Blue Garcia knows the trenches of indie filmmaking. The Austin filmmaker's first feature,..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Relights the Superjoint

Fest adds Superjoint Ritual, Voivod, and a resurrected Gwar

"...hiding something special in its bag of tricks. Now they’re unleashing it. Phil Anslemo conjures up his old band..."

Aug. 19, 2014 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Rob Zombie Resurrects the Firefly Family for 3 From Hell

Here to do the devil's work: Director talks how being cool is no excuse

"...Filmmaker Rob Zombie first introduced the world to the murderous, cannibalistic, necrophiliac Firefly family in..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...Georges Melies never saw the Apollo astronauts tee off on the moon, but the..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Where the Wild Things Star

'Secondhand Lions' is only the latest production in which Bobbi Colorado-trained beasts play a part.

"..."They say never work with kids or animals, so we..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Buzz Heard 'Round the World

"...Gunnar Hansen as Chainsaw's Leatherface..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Alamo South Pulls Out All the Stops For Closing Bash

Cramming everything you love about the Drafthouse into one night

"...and foreign fare, merci beaucoup? Can't get enough of them genre kicks? Whatever you are, whatever you love, the..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

'The Last Supper'

Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: 30 Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas: an excerpt

"...Chainsaw's cast and crew had been working twelve- to sixteen-hour..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

Griffon Ramsey Carves Up the Food Network’s Outrageous Pumpkins

Visiting the Texas pumpkin chain saw massacre

"...The award-winning Austin-based chain saw artist, who has built an..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Features Feature by Sara Hutchinson

DVDanger: The Burning and The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Another gruesome twosome for your weekend's viewing

"...Y'know, it's funny. Considering that the filmmaking Weinstein brothers of Miramax fame made their feature-writing..."

May 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Lights Go Down at South Lamar

Final night at the Alamo Drafthouse mothership

"...It may not be the original Alamo Drafthouse, or the biggest, but the Alamo..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All the Gory Details

The Maestro of movie make-up Tom Savini talks about George Romero, the increasing popularity of CGI, and what it felt like to shoot a crotch-gun.

"...A man jumps onto the hood of a car and fires both barrels of..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Playing on the Past

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June 11, 1999 Screens Feature by Chris Baker

'Eggshells' Is an Austin Time Capsule

Tobe Hooper presents 'Eggshells' on Tuesday night with Louis Black

"...Dateline: Austin, Texas, 1968 (back before this town would become a filmmaking..."

July 7, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Housecore Horror Calls for More 'Saw

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2' revs, plus VHS and 35mm joy

"...The Housecore Horror Film Festival had already announced that it..."

Aug. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Tobe Hooper, R.I.P.

Remembering The Texas Chain Saw Massacre director

"...Few and rare are the filmmakers that change the canon with their debut. Yet..."

Aug. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thirty Years on Location

An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.

"...not working, but that has never been true of the Texas Film Commission. It's such good industry, filmmaking, because..."

June 15, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Migrating North

As the Texas and national film industry feels the burn of runaway production, many agree with one directive: Blame Canada.

"...infrastructure that increasingly is being dismantled and sought on the cheap in other countries?..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Larger Than Life

The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...From the sweeping High Plains to the fertile Rio Grande Valley,..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...Film's local economic impact has been in the hundreds of millions of dollars during the past three..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

House of 1000 Corpses

"...like I told my mom: Just because you have the stars of Burnt Offerings, Spider Baby, and Bonnie and..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

L.M. Kit Carson: Film Frontiersman

The 2015 Texas Film Awards induct L.M. Kit Carson posthumously into the Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...he worked far inside. But he wasn't an insider either as he spent more than his fair share of..."

March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Matthew McConaughey: Lone Star Rising

The Luck of the Drawl

"...city - or at least it'll be beautiful for the next couple of weeks, until the heat picks up..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Screens Feature by Matt Zoller Seitz

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

From charming zombies to pompous actors, 10 films to seek in 2019

"...You may be done with 2018, but 2018 isn't done with you. While festival season..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Youth Gone Wild

Pre-millenial teen angst, both period and retro, melds with noir

"..."There are 32 ways to tell a story, but only..."

Jan. 17, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...earliest memories are of woefully dubbed English emanating from the mismoving mouths of Japanese people. This is, on the..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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