It was a huge surprise to me that Travis Steven’s sophomore feature Jakob’s Wife was a gattdang vampire movie! Starring...
Found footage is an acquired taste among horror fans. Some of us love it (meeee), and some of us absolutely...
The horror genre has always been unparalleled in how it handles trauma, but even Alex Noyer’s first feature film Sound of Violence feels like an aberration among its peers. This extension of Noyer’s short Conductor tells the origin story of a sound engineer named Alexis (Jasmin Savoy Brown); her method...
[#SXSW 2021 Interview] Director Mickey Keating Breaks Down The Ethereal Nightmare Logic of OFFSEASON
Mickey Keating is one of the most interesting and versatile indie filmmakers working in horror today. In the same way...
Like a MumbleGore re-imagining of John Carpenter’s The Thing set in the remote forest regions of South Africa, Gaia hints at...
Supernatural comedy Jethica is a darkhorse of an indie ghost story. Hidden between the more studio-polished, star-studded films of the 2022 SXSW lineup lies this deceptively subtle story of life after death with as many actors as you could count on one hand. Indie in every sense of the word, this...
A harmless internet prank gets out of hand real fast in Maureen Bharoocha’s dark comedy The Prank. Celebrating its World Premiere...
Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence features some pretty elaborate deaths, tailor-made for the Midnight Madness crowd. Adapted from his short Conductor, the...
As a fan of Travis Stevens’s previous film, Girl On The Third Floor, I had a pretty good sense that Jakob’s Wife would be loaded with great gore gags and complex characters, but I was genuinely surprised by the chemistry between leads Barbara Crampton (Chopping Mall, Sacrifice) and Larry Fessenden (Depraved, Habit). The...
I’m going to assume you’ve seen Ridley Scott’s Alien, but have you seen Ridley Scott’s Alien reenacted by the bus...
DESCRIPTION We’re kicking back and getting cozy this week with an extended What’s Keeping Us Creepy episode, to share our...
Like so many filmmakers staring down the barrel of the Covid-19 Pandemic, husband and wife duo Vanessa & Joseph Winter seized their opportunity to make a stripped-down, bare-bones, balls-to-the-wall horror movie. The newest entry in the found footage canon, Deadstream follows a disgraced Livestreamer, desperately trying to make a comeback...