More Gore From Housecore Horror

New film fest adds more classics plus a locally lensed premiere

"...Corey Mitchell cracking the whip at the new Housecore Horror Film Festival, it's no shocker that the Louisiana-set, Austin-filmed..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin-Made Horror Anthology Comes Back Home for Other Worlds

Delivering a Scare Package

"...are few things Aaron B. Koontz hates more than horror films that mock horror films. So while his new..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Homegrown Horror

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett on 'V/H/S/2'

"...In a found footage horror movie, the audience is either the hunted or the..."

July 26, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Josh Kupecki's Top 10 Films of 2020

"The outrage, the tragedy, the surprise"

"...With movie theatres dark and empty, Hollywood studios and independent distributors didn't have much of a choice but to..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

American Nightmare

A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.

"...the Austin Film Festival, American Nightmare premiered on the Independent Film Channel, the network that produced this focused documentary..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Full-Gore Press

Mind the viscera: Austin's horror filmmaking scene is exploding

"...Will 2011 go down as the year the Austin horror filmmaking community definitively established itself as a vital hub..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

"Lesbian Vampires"

"...Goldstein, Bruna Fionda, Polly Gladwin and Isiling Mack-Nataf. The independent shorts in this twofer attempt to shine a new..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Man Behind the Leatherface Mask

Gunnar Hansen signing "Chain Saw Confidential" at Bookpeople Sunday

"...1974, when UT student Gunnar Hansen joined a little independent horror film called The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as..."

Sept. 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Scary Movie Comes Back From the Grave

Austin's 1991 indie horror rises again

"...Despite our reputation as the best community for mondo horror, the Austin of the 1990s was a very different..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Mercy Black

Viral horror faces the reality of childhood crimes

"...the golden age for both true crime adaptations and independent horror films, then you might also agree that the..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Pet Sematary

Latest Stephen King adaptation is a pretty good horror film, but nothing more

"...and 2014's Starry Eyes, Kölsch and Widmyer’s roots as independent horror filmmakers shine throughout the movie – for a..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director. His award-winning 1993 feature debut Cronos, an..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

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

"...magnetic north, is a good old fashioned, clutch-the-sheets, double-check-the-locks horror...."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 09 Film Lineup Announced

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

"...In addition to previously announced films like opening night comedy I Love You, Man (the..."

Feb. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: Beyond the Gates

Throwback horror resurrects the VHS board-game phenomenon

"...specific term to describe the ever-growing library of modern horror films that deliberately evoke the mood, conventions, and tropes..."

May 21, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drafthouse Sets Bill Paxton Memorial Screenings

Beloved everyman actor and Texas native passed away Sunday

"...of all time, but he had indelible turns in independent film, too. The Alamo Drafthouse is paying tribute to..."

Feb. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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 again. Few other film genres are..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Last House on the Left

Louis Black reviews Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, Texas Chain-saw Massacre, and Halloween -- all featured in IFC's new documentary, American Nightmare

"...to be monsters and now it's maniacs. Great American horror films were driven by monsters, nightmare creatures created out..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

Around the World of Weird

The many genre delights of Fantastic Fest 2008

"...Among the 120-plus feature-length and short films is a roster of non-American-made masterpieces from every corner..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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

"...few fellow directors to make trailers for imaginary grind-house films. The reviews that the three-hour finished product receives should..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...analogies don't hold up quite so well when both films are placed side-by-side. Yim's movie offers up a much..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...South by Southwest, find harmony in the three headlining films announced for this year’s streaming festival...."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Wes Anderson Brings Isle of Dogs to SXSW

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

"...Last week, SXSW announced that high-concept horror A Quiet Place is this year's opening night film...."

Feb. 7, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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 again. Few other film genres are..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Getting Their Due

The 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...is the notion of broadening the perception of Texas films. Founding Chair Evan Smith (also the editor of Texas..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

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.

"...one of the most charming, melancholy and quirkily humorous films of the year; a wonderfully sparse recreation of the..."

Oct. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Film at Wit's End

An Interview With Stan Brakhage

"...of people have seen even one of the 250+ films he has made over the past 45 years, filmmakers..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

The Stunt Man

William Castle's Gimmick Flicks Live Again!

"...Forum sponsored a two-week festival entitled "Gimmick-o-Rama," celebrating the films of the 1950s that featured technical and publicity innovations..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

Tobe Hooper, R.I.P.

Remembering The Texas Chain Saw Massacre director

"...with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: not just for horror, but for independent moviemaking as a whole...."

Aug. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film

Film Reviews

"...analogies don't hold up quite so well when both films are placed side-by-side. Yim's movie offers up a much..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

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