DVDanger: The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Missing found-footage finally escapes, plus Bautista in Bushwick

"...release, springboarding off the recent and unexpected success of Paranormal Activity. At the last minute, it was inexplicably pulled,..."

Nov. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Arts: Summer Snapshot

Theatre, dance, comedy, and lit events on the horizon

"...Welcome to Night Vale Popular paranormal podcast returns to the Paramount. July 15...."

May 19, 2017 Arts Feature

Owen Egerton Gets Spooked Writing The Axe Murders of Villisca

Austin author on his new haunted house movie

"...Well, almost nothing happened. One of the hordes of paranormal researchers that have searched for arcane phenomena had left..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds and Under Worlds With Bears Fonté

OWA founder adds horror, history, and food to the sci-fi fest

"...The epitome of that is paranormal investigation chiller We Go On. Fonté said, "There are..."

Nov. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ghost Hunting at Austin’s Spookiest Bars and Restaurants

Our favorite haunts

"...going bump in the night. The results of my paranormal investigation may chill you to the bone. The Red..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Hidden Room Theatre's Houdini Speaks to the Living

In this drama featuring Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle, a debate on the talking dead springs to dramatic life

"...psychics, phony mediums, and anyone fraudulently claiming to possess paranormal abilities. But the show's creators take advantage of a..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Survive Record Review

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"...missions gone terribly awry. "Low Fog" echoes Stranger Things' paranormal tone – ambient and expressive in its patient crawl..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

DVDanger: Fantastic Fest 2015 Revisited

With the 2016 lineup here, time for VOD and DVD reruns

"...Psychokinesis used to be sci-fi's go-to paranormal skill: far more cinematic than remote viewing, but still..."

Aug. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips: USS Lexington, Corpus Christi

Old Navy warhorse retires to beachfront property and life as a military history museum

"...There have been more than 600 paranormal sightings on the ship. One of the most persistent..."

June 3, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Eyelid Kid’s Hyde Park Demons

“Landscape” video introduces ghostly abandoned mansion

"...Mackenzie Taylor, adapted their glitchy dance routines into a paranormal ritual that synchs up with the track’s breaks and..."

May 31, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Dana Falconberry Premieres “Cormorant”

First look at Austin chamber folksinger’s new video

"...crystalline clip, directed by Cody Ground, speaks to the paranormal themes burning in Falconberry’s woods...."

March 28, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Strange Case of Beware the Slenderman

Irene Taylor Brodsky on the Internet's favorite boogeyman

"...was his response to a challenge to insert something paranormal into a regular photo. The images, and then the..."

March 11, 2016 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The X Files' Mitch Pileggi at Zach Theatre

What conspiracy brought X-Files star Mitch Pileggi back to Austin, Zach, and Walter Skinner all at the same time?

"...especially once he became the staunch ally of Fox's paranormal Holmes and Watson, which provided work for nine seasons..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mark Duplass Is a Creep

Found footage gets arty on Netflix

"...the distributor behind box office leviathan franchises like Insidious, Paranormal Activity, The Purge, and Sinister, may not seem like..."

July 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Digging Up the Marrow

Adam Green on the long and very personal path of his new feature

"...format. You look at The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity, and it made sense. There was a reason..."

March 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...boyfriend to help take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightened to face. Cast: Ali Larter,..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Documenting Extremes

Behind the scenes at Studio Ghibli and Kink.com

"...young women into a creepy old mansion. The inevitable paranormal activities, visions of the former (deceased) owners, and the..."

Jan. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Atticus Institute

Or, in defense of found footage and mockumentaries

"...into a film: So, The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity...."

Jan. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Science-Fiction Cinema

Break down the walls

"...the film's genesis to Oren Peli's explanation of the Paranormal Activity films. "That was his experience of living in..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bedtime Stories That Bite Back

Jennifer Kent discusses horror debut The Babadook

"...to be stalled in a desert of Saw and Paranormal Activity sequels and knockoffs – The Babadook mines a..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Sasquatch and Zombies and Demons, Oh My!

Let the Halloween countdown commence

"...Honestly, the current wave of post-Paranormal Activity, demonic-possession movies have generally left me cold. They..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Putting the Austin Into Wizard World Austin

Local talent appearing at the geek culture gathering

"...6pm: Paranormal City Travel Channel host and Blastr editor-at-large Aaron Sagers..."

Oct. 2, 2014 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2014: V/H/S Viral

Third time the charm for found footage anthology franchise?

"...raw footage that would confirm the existence of something paranormal. Watch too many, and there are terrible, deadly consequences...."

Sept. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hell of It

Mike Mignola on returning to Hellboy

"...Now the adventures of Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense are a veritable publishing cottage industry,..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Staring Into the Abyss With Mike Mignola

Before MondoCon, the comics legend talks Hellboy and shadows

"...created Hellboy and the world of the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. Now he's slowly destroying it. He..."

Sept. 15, 2014 Design Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

Documentary about a film that never was heads this week's releases

"...(in the loosest sense of the word) TV like Paranormal State (aka the poor ghoul's Ghost Hunters) and Room..."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hammering 'The Quiet Ones'

Director John Pogue talks spooks, science, and "Mad Men" stars

"...(Olivia Cooke.) Coupland, ever the scientist, believes that the paranormal phenomena plaguing the young woman is not supernatural, but..."

April 25, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top Picks for Oenophiles at AF&WF

Wine gurus Mark Oldman and Ray Isle sure to attract big crowds

"...just a pretty face, but he certainly possesses an almost-paranormal ability to attract a crush of enamored women. He..."

April 25, 2014 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Smoke and Mirrors

The 'Oculus' team on taking a ghost story to the big screen

"...horror movie from Blumhouse (producers of Sinister and the Paranormal Activity franchise) casts the star of long-running British sci-fi..."

April 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 'Exists'

'Blair Witch' creator revives 'The Beast of Boggy Creek'

"...sets himself up to fail narratively by taking another paranormal camping trip. Yet somehow he evades all those bear..."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

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