Into the Woods, In Search of Sator

The secret family history behind Jordan Graham's supernatural horror

"...that became the core of Sator, the supernatural woodland horror created by her grandson, Jordan Graham...."

April 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Unholy

Messy Catholic horror is weighed down by becoming a creature feature

"...something refreshing about watching a studio dump a mediocre horror movie in theaters during the first quarter of the..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

Extraordinary elegy to a dying village in Lesotho

"...The layering of horror further intensifies This Is Not a Burial, it’s a..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Shiva Baby

Wry observational comedy puts the fun in funeral

"...scratchy, string-and-timpani soundtrack. It feels purloined from an avant-garde horror, and there are moments when Maria Rusche's cinematography matches..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Held

Short-term rental horror as a couple fight for survival (and the keys)

"...Not reviewed at press time. Short term rental horror as a couple find themselves locked into their holiday..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review

This Is Your Brain on Conspiracies As Duncan Hits Panic Fest

John Valley's comedy warns about ignoring conspiracy theorists

"...to be on this project. He also has several horror projects gestating, and mutual friends had told him that..."

April 8, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin-Made Romantic Horror The Carnivores Questions What It Is to Lose Control

Love bites in Caleb Johnson's strange examination of relationships

April 9, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Indie Meme, Day by Day

Two weekends of the best of South Asian Cinema

"...Inn (D: Vijay Jayapal, 115 min., Texas Premiere) Psychological horror film following a resort caretaker as faces from his..."

April 9, 2021 Screens Feature by Trace Sauveur

Valoneecia Tolbert Geeks Out in Tales of a Blerd Ballerina

The actress looks back at what it was to be young, geeky, and Black

"...Zone. Nowadays, African Americans who love science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics, cartoons, gaming, and other genre subcultures are open..."

April 9, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TUFF Enough: Free Streaming Festival Highlights Rising UT Filmmakers

Alamo On Demand hosting this week's Texas Union Film Festival

"...A post-apocalyptic Lego animation, a high stakes mystery horror film about a ventriloquist, and a documentary portrait of..."

April 5, 2021 Screens Post by Shane Pfender

Slaxx

Fashion horror is a good look

"...Everyone has that one subject in horror that automatically churns their stomach. Spiders, sharks broken bones,..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Godzilla vs. Kong

The madcap royal rumble we were always promised

"...been flexible, stretching from pure post-war angst to surrealist eco-horror to kid-friendly goofiness. Out of left field, Wingard (who..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

30 New Shows, Returning Series, and Other TV Premieres This April

Top Chef, crazy love, and sweet potters

"...April 9: Them (Prime Video) Horror series from executive producers Lena Waithe (Queen & Slim)..."

April 1, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Rondo and Bob Nominated for ... a Rondo!

Austin film doc up for award, and you can vote!

"...this love letter to a founding father of classic horror, and to a Hatton superfan with a legacy of..."

March 25, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What’cha Watchin’?

Editorial Intern Trace Sauveur finds something inside The Empty Man

"...A 2.5-hour horror movie that warrants its run time, director David Prior's..."

March 26, 2021 Screens Column by Trace Sauveur

Tom Petty, Folk Horror Lead SXSW Audience Awards

The Fallout is this year's big winner

"...Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, while Kayla Abuda Galang won the Texas Short category..."

March 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Sound of Violence

Music-driven thriller doesn’t quite hit all the right notes

"...While a good score is typically an element of horror films that will often get singled out as a..."

March 22, 2021 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

SXSW Film Review: Offseason

Mickey Keating goes to the coast for cosmic horror

"...Aldrich (Melora Walters) warns the audience in creeping cosmic horror Offseason. "Like family, like an old friend."..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Violation

Feminist horror stabs deep into the Jacobean Revenger

"...as a SXSW Festival Favorite before arriving on streaming horror platform Shudder, doesn't start off as a gory, unhinged,..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: The Feast

This horror's entrée is delicious, but the dessert is lacking

"...So suggests The Feast, Lee Haven Jones’s Welsh ecological horror film that shows what happens to one wealthy family..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Film Review: Alien On Stage

Classic horror and British pantomime delightfully mix

"...6,000+, the idea to adapt Ridley Scott’s seemingly unadaptable horror classic from big screen to small stage came from..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Dark State

Nutty conspiracy theory flick is Pizzagate-style nonsense

"...brief note to let you know your narrative fiction horror flick and/or documentary re: the shadowy global cabal of..."

March 19, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: The Fallout

Megan Park turns her Secret Life days to great effect

"...shot. Soon sirens blare from outside, and the immediate horror is over...."

March 18, 2021 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Review: Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break

Bloody British comedy has a delicate heart

"...steady hand at the marriage of British comedy and horror...."

March 18, 2021 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...21 Savage's matter-of-fact tone and the ghoulish exuberance of horror film character Chucky. His first release of 2021, Locked..."

March 19, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

SXSW Film Review: Gaia

South African ecohorror grows a very different creeping death

"...I can only call a masterpiece of socially aware eco-horror. Gaia, the Greek personification of this third planet from..."

March 17, 2021 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Encyclopedic documentary finds the global roots of a genre

"...former Alamo Drafthouse/Fantastic Fest programmer and Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies founder Kier-La Jannisse's encyclopedic exploration of folk horror,..."

March 16, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Interview: Jacob Gentry Runs the Tape on Broadcast Signal Intrusion

Director talks the influences on his period techno-horror

"...In the period techno-horror, video archivist and camera expert James (Harry Shum Jr.)..."

March 16, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Come True

Nightmare horror is the wrong kind of creepy

"...Nightmares are our mind’s own personal horror movies. Abstract or hyperreal, these stories we find ourselves..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Finding the Roots of Folk Horror in Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched

Kier-La Janisse searches for the origins of a genre

"...Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (which plays as part of SXSW 2021's Midnighters) thoroughly..."

March 12, 2021 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

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