Grindhouse

Grindhouse, which was filmed in Austin, raises the bar for movie showmanship and the theatregoing experience.

"...More than just a fun three hours at the movies, Grindhouse is a total immersion into movie geekdom, in..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Versus

"...director. It’s a knockout in the realm of low-budget horror filmmaking. By using the forest as the film’s sole..."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

For Love of the Game

"...A Simple Plan, Sam Raimi would have kissed the horror films (his former stock in trade) good-bye and stepped..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An American Werewolf in Paris

"...Scott, Julie Delpy, Phil Buckman and Vince Vieluf. In horror terms, 16 years is a dang nigh unprecedented span..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Cursed

Historical werewolf horror takes an innovative bite

"...Period shapeshifter horror The Cursed (which played last year’s festival circuit under..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rad Chad Lives!

Jeremy King, star of Scare Package, talks VHS heaven

"...Buckley family across four of Koontz's films. In grisly-funny horror short "The El Chupugcabra" King was Padre Buckley, the..."

Oct. 22, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Owen Egerton’s Bloody Good Time

Writer/director’s distinctly Austin horror-comedy returns for RTX Austin

"...Ever gone to the movies and found out you're in the wrong theatre, and..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Larry Fessenden Collection

Horror's underappreciated auteur on existential terror

"...Whale. Castle. Carpenter. Craven. Fulci. The great names of horror. But maybe there's another, less known talent that should..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro goes Gothic, but falls short

"...Toro’s first real foray into the realm of Gothic horror-romance, leavened with a hint of Italian giallo, is a..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hills Have Eyes II

This sequel to last year’s remake is as witless and simpleminded as the irradiated humanoids that serve as the franchise’s bad guys.

"...This sequel to last year’s remake of the 1977 horror classic The Hills Have Eyes is as witless and..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...their turn; and the holidays are reserved for the movies most likely to generate award nominations. Of course, this..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

"...the good-hearted rubes who foolishly offered to finance his movies, and the people who surrounded him in his lifetime...."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Empathy for the Devil

Discourse on Evil

"...season to rush out vampire tomes, ghost stories, and horror titles, and why not? There's no other time of..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Books Feature

A Totally Killer Time With Nahnatchka Khan

Director of the new horror comedy on time travel and more

"...It's said that comedy and horror sit on either side of a blurred border, but..."

Oct. 9, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Piggy

Spanish teen slasher subverts the tropes with a new kind of protagonist

"...Its tropes are some of the most familiar in horror cinema, whether it’s the hulking, slow-walking killer; the socially..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Jasmine Lane

Millennial Mayhem in V/H/S/99

The fifth installment in the found footage horror anthology series gets the Y2K jitters

"...V/H/S films have always been a murderers' row of horror talents, from Adam Wingard (You're Next) to Ti West..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Opening Night at Guzu Gallery

Artists talk about their work for new horror-themed show

"...stocking? Friday night, Guzu Gallery opened its latest show, holiday/horror hybrid "They're Coming to Get You," and some of..."

Dec. 6, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

John Carpenter Lit Up By El Rey

Legendary director first guest in "The Director's Chair"

"...Don't ask John Carpenter to pick his favorite movies from his own back catalog. If he had to..."

May 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Lords of Salem

With his fifth horror feature, writer/director Rob Zombie proves he's a unique visionary in a repetitive cinematic genre.

"...American auteur run creepy-ass riot over what passes for horror movies in contemporary Hollywood...."

April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

John Dies at the End

Together, Bubba Ho-Tep director Don Coscarelli and Cracked.com editor David Wong created this horror-comedy jumble that's customed-tooled for the midnight hour.

"...John Dies at the End is a collaboration between horror auteur Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep) and Cracked.com editor..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Best Worst Movie

Premiering in Austin, this documentary is about the purportedly "best worst movie" ever made, Troll 2, and its enthusiastic fans.

"...(many arguments could be made for other far worse movies earning the honor instead, and the routes by which..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Creeptastic

Every day is Halloween when you're Professor Griffin.

"...funereal wardrobe, and painfully dark cheaters, Austin's only television horror host, Professor Griffin, clearly wants to scare the bejesus..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Before the TV series, there was the movie in which a Nineties Valley Girl discovers her true calling.

"...you expect it to be. Buffy is to vampire movies what Valley Girl is to Romeo and Juliet stories:..."

Aug. 7, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Where The Devil Roams

Diabolical art horror rides into a Great Depression carnie hell

"...They were backyard cinephiles who burst into the indie horror scene with the microbudget The Deeper You Dig, then..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Nun II

The Conjuring Universe expands with this supernatural horror sequel

"...like something more kin with a blockbuster than a horror movie. Directed by franchise favorite Michael Chaves (who at..."

Sept. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Shazam!

DC finally gets to the heart of why we love superheroes

"...as such, filmmaker David F. Sandberg (the underwhelming 2016 horror film Lights Out) is given a fair amount of..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Other Side of the Door

The portal between the living and dead is once again breached

"...surprises in The Other Side of the Door, a horror film in which a grief-stricken mother opens a forbidden..."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let Me Paint You a Picture

Movies were made to be shared

"...My daughter did not inherit my gene for horror. That curiously unsettling pleasure that since childhood I have..."

May 20, 2011 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

The Faculty

Co-written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson and George Huang (Swimming With Sharks), The Faculty is pure Robert Rodriguez: jam-packed with action, suspense, humor, horror, and plenty of cinematic homages.

"...your 4x4, a six-pack of Shiner Bock, and Rodriguez's movies non-stop from dusk 'til dawn. Until that happens, though,..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ed Wood

This biographical film is charming, melancholy, strange, and quirkily humorous. There's also a certain irony in giving the silver-screen treatment to the most infamous of bargain-basement directors and his motley crew of hangers-on.

"...multi-faceted love story focusing on Wood's passion for making movies, his love for the then-over-the-hill Bela Lugosi, and a..."

Oct. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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