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Fantastic Fest Review: Huesera
Motherhood told in splintered bones and fractured identity
"...Horror is a genre for women: from final girls to..."

Sept. 27, 2022 Screens Post by Jasmine Lane

Fantastic Fest Review: V/H/S/99
The found footage anthology goes back to the '90s
"...to the most obvious anxieties of the era. The horror stories found in this collection of shorts utilize and..."

Sept. 27, 2022 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

Fantastic Fest Review: Smile
Opening night selection continues the summer of smart studio horror
"...comes with baggage at this point in the modern horror cycle. This story about therapist Rose (Sosie Bacon) being..."

Sept. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

Fantastic Fest Review: Vesper
Eco-horror melds with fairytales in this remarkable SF parable
"...Unlike most eco-horrors, this is not an arid, baked future; it is..."

Sept. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Terrifier 2
Art the Clown slashes his way to horror's wildest heights
"...pressed to find in a lot of other current horror. Art’s victims don’t so much have to worry about..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

Fantastic Fest Review: A Wounded Fawn
Greek tragedy and gore combine in this wild serial killer romp
"...incisive, it's interesting to see Stevens take the same proto-horror influences of Greek theatre that Wes Craven wove into..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Blonde
Treatise on fame turns Marilyn Monroe's life into a horror story
"...Blonde at times feels like a horror movie, with its uneasy sound editing and harsh lighting...."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest Interview: Jason Eisener on Kids vs. Aliens
The director of the teen-friendly horror discusses his influences
"...The new kid-friendly sci fi horror from the director of Hobo With a Shotgun and..."

Sept. 22, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Art the Clown Became a Horror Icon
Slasher epic Terrifier 2 breaks all the rules, but director Damien Leone is just telling the story he wants to tell
"...But if any horror series was going to go that deranged, it's Terrifier...."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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

The Film Family That Slays Together Makes Child's Play Together
Documentarian Kyra Elise Gardner celebrates the community around pint-sized slasher Chucky in in Living With Chucky
"...with Chucky, the possessed doll from the Child's Play horror slasher franchise. He's in a chair, just off camera...."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by James Scott

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something
12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music
"...two children. But my admiration quickly gives way to horror. Asking for the check, Calvert sneaks in one final..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Five Films to Catch First at Fantastic Fest
The movies you'll want to see before drafting your year-end best-of lists
"...Nicholas Hoult (The Great) have a reservation for culinary horror at the table of Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes).FF Screenings:..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Pearl
Mia Goth shines madly in the delicious period prequel to X
"...Before the South by Southwest premiere of his porno horror X, everyone was buzzing about what West had in..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Revelations: A Gen Z Writer Witnesses the Eternal Battle of an Iron Maiden Concert
Waving flags and fighting monsters with the hallowed NWOBHM troopers
"...road, there are only two questions: what insanely expensive horrors is Bruce Dickinson swashbuckling with onstage and how many..."

Sept. 14, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Indoor Queers Club: History’s No Mystery!
Qmmunity recommends readable & watchable media about queer history
"...then you’ll recognize a few faces in the gothic horror of Bly Manor. Without giving too much away (as..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Barbarian
Buried secrets make for the year's smartest, scariest horror
"...beneath the house is something of such gleeful subterranean horror you don’t know whether to scream or cheer when..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Austin Film Festival Lands The Whale
Brendan Fraser's Venice smash to open fest, Oct. 27-Nov. 3
"...The Wild Man, starring the king of indie alternative horror, Larry Fessenden...."

Sept. 8, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Meet Your 2022 Hot Sauce Festival Judges
Meet the tastemakers for this year's competition
"...by CrimeReads. He is currently editing a collection of horror stories for Arte Público Press. He is the executive..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Food Feature

Sarah Polley's Women Talking Announced for Austin Film Festival
First wave includes the eagerly-awaited Nanny
"...this psychologically complex fable of displacement tinged with supernatural horror, Aisha (Anna Diop), a woman recently emigrated from Senegal,..."

Aug. 31, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Innocents
Norwegian "evil kids" horror delivers a sickening catharsis
"...want to have kids? Well, after watching Norwegian slow-burn horror The Innocents, the answer is clearly "to avoid being..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Spin Me Round
Lumpen anti-rom-com won't turn heads
"...regulars, starting with Aubrey Plaza and Molly Shannon in horror tragicomedy Life After Beth, initiating a working relationship with..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Maneater
Trace Adkins versus sharks is a soggy mess
"...and does its best to move the characters through horror movie paces without reinventing the wheel. For their part,..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Alienoid
Time-travelling SF wire fu thriller is as overpacked as it sounds
"...if mawkish, kid-friendly romp and a surprisingly dark body horror. The latter reaches its peak in a big sequence..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

In the Flesh: Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell Leads the Reappraisal of Porn
The archivist sees erotica as a vital chapter in the history of queer liberation
"...local library as well as all the sci-fi and horror genre films available. Movies were a gateway to LGBTQ..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Screens Feature by James Scott

When I Consume You
Siblings against Satan in this character-driven supernatural horror
"...that have become so common in modern urban indie horror, but with a distinctiveness of edge and image that..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Orphan: First Kill
The cuckoo's nest classic gets a gruesome and surprising prequel
"...When 2009 cuckoo's nest horror Orphan revealed its brain-bending twist, audiences were left genuinely..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Your Austin Starter Kit
Back to School issue
"...bizarre, strange, and innovative will open with Paramount Pictures horror Smile...."

Aug. 19, 2022 Column by Kimberley Jones

Five Films Not to Miss at aGLIFF
Fashion, wrestling, and giallo on-screen at the queer film fest
"...tragedy? The circumstances perfectly line up with the giallo horror script he's been filming. Fri., Aug. 26, 11pm Erica’s..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Screens Feature by James Scott

Eat Like an Austin Movie Star
Your guide to local restaurants featured in famous films
"...gas station and is now the Gas Station, a horror museum, hotel, and (natch) BBQ joint. If you’re really..."

Aug. 17, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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