It has been a while since I sat down and watched a true-blue art film. When I picked out Hagazussa – A Heathen’s Curse I assumed it was just another horror movie and was shocked by what I found. Instead of shrills and thrills, I got a nearly silent period piece about psychosis and medieval…
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BHFF 2017: It Sure Ain’t The Newlywed Game – GAME OF DEATH (31 Days, Day 17)
Foreign directors Sébastien Landry and Laurence Morais-lagacé break into the American film scene with their new horror film, Game of Death. With a slew of “written by” and “adapted by” credits, the story seems to have been a true joint effort. Under the direction of Landry and Morais-lagacé, this story takes shape through the pair’s…
31 Days, Day 16: KILL BABY KILL is a TURD BABY TURD
[Editor’s Note: Kenny won one of our podcast giveaways and, in turn, I began following him on Twitter. His opinions interested me, so I offered to post some of them. I hope to have him doing some more reviewing and writing for us going forward. He’s awesome, even if this Mario Bava “classic” is not.]…
BHFF 2017: Rachael Travels TO HELL AND BACK with Kane Hodder (31 Days, Day 15)
Being a horror fan, you know of the major horror icons. Though this man did not star in the first Friday the 13th, when someone says “Jason” in regards to that series, many minds think of Kane Hodder. He’s iconic. His posture, boldness he brought to the character, and one of the most famous and…
31 Days, Day 14: Friday Fight is a Day Late and a Buck Short with UNINVITED
Uninvited‘s trailer begins with a voiceover that says, “They say cats have nine lives, but you only have one!” this says pretty such everything you need to know about this wonderful, wonderful piece of cinematic trash. Wonderfully inept, the acting is some of the worst I’ve seen in ages. Gloriously awful, the effects are the…
31 Days, Day 9: Warner Archive’s THE HIDDEN is a Quirky 80s Gem, Finally Released on Blu-ray
Earlier in the year, buzz about Twin Peaks returning was in high gear. Everyone started their rewatches and conversations flourished. Obviously, the one person that would be in every conversation would be the man who played the incomparable Kyle MacLachlan. Driving to work, listening to the Shock Waves podcast, one of the crew mentioned that…
31 Days, Day 7: Sonny Chiba is the WOLFGUY
Wolfguy, aka Wolfguy: Enraged Lycanthrope, is a fun outside the box kung-fu horror film noir based on the Manga of the same name and it is one trippy as hell time at the movies. I normally do not watch films like this. I am not the type of guy who watches very many foreign flicks.…
31 Days, Day 6: ODD THOMAS Showcases the Talents of the Late Great Anton Yelchin
[Editor’s Note: In October, Friday Fight becomes Friday Frights and we’ll be covering something every Friday this month. Next week we’ll be celebrating the life of the late George Kennedy with a lesser known 1988 horror film called Uninvited. It’s streaming on Amazon Prime.] I don’t understand how this star-studded flick flew so far under…
31 Days, Day 5: Double Dose of the Our Inner Demons – Man’s Greatest Enemy is Man
Two new releases that have hit shelves in the past few weeks are, at their core, all about how the greatest enemy of man is man himself. The most powerful demons reside within the very souls of men. In the case of The Evil in Us and Jackals, these inner demons lead men to go…
PUFF 2017: The Final Review Pits Iceland Against Mondo… and Iceland Wins with RIFT (31 Days, Day 4)
[Editor’s Note: Blaine is currently serving as the Feature Film Programmer for Atlanta’s Buried Alive Film Festival. He was excited… giddy even… at the chance to review Rift as part of PUFF coverage, as he’d become a big fan since screening it for Buried Alive. You’ll see that he’s quite the cheerleader for this film.…
31 Days, Day 4: Garrett’s Best of the Fest, PUFF 2017 Edition
Satan’s cooool. Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival has come and gone, and now that I’ve had the weekend to ruminate on the fest, I’m ready to give you my picks for best of the fest. PUFF 2 was an excellent four days of genre and cult programming that I was delighted to be invited to again.…
31 Days, Day 3: WHAT JUST HAPPENED – Chapters 1-5
[Editor’s Note: One of the things we’re featuring this year as part of 31 Days of Halloween is a short book that Cash, my son, begn writing in a notebook last month. He wanted to share it and, together, we decided to do it in 3 parts, one part each week for the first 3…
PUFF 2017: Day 4 Focuses on the Local and the Exceptionally Weird (31 Days, Day 2)
[Editor’s Note: Garrett’s PUFF Day 4 and Best of the Fest posts (today and tomorrow) are also running as part of out 31 Days of Halloween, because there is sufficient Halloweenyness in PUFF to genuinely make it appropriate. Thanks to the folks from PUFF for letting us participate in said Halloweenyness for a second straight…
PUFF 2017: RUIN ME – A Modern Slasher Commentary on Addiction, Trust, and Patriarchy (31 Days, Day 1)
In this review, we celebrate both the Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival and the kickoff of The Farsighted’s second annual 31 Days of Halloween. Like many others, we celebrate all month long, but rather than the standard “31 Days of Horror” we cover all types of Halloween goodness, from the goofy family fun of movies like…
PUFF 2017: Day 3 – Real Frights and Gaslights
We do this just for you. Listen PUFF, I know that’s not true, but goddamn do you make it feel like it’s true. Day 3 of Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival was jam packed, not just with movies, but a crowd that hung around all day. And boy were you rewarded if you did – the…
PUFF 2017: DAY 2 in Review… Smoke ‘Em If Ya Got ‘Em
I guess that makes two shit-demons in cinematic history. The Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival is the only place you can say that sentence directly to the distributor of a movie you just watched. And Day 2 of PUFF 2 provided me just such an opportunity. I arrived a few minutes early and was immediately offered…
PUFF 2017: Shipp and Hildebrand Shine in Tyler McIntyre’s TRAGEDY GIRLS
Tragedy Girls played Friday night at PUFF. You already miss this one but there are more awesome films all weekend. Get tickets for the rest of the fest at FilmFreeway! Tragedy Girls is a terrific teen slasher with two of the most charismatic leads in horror history. It actually manages to bust open a few…
PUFF 2017: Highlights from This Year’s Short Film Crop
Signal to Noise (2017) Dir. Jarret Blinkhorn Signal to Noise feels very much like a proof-of-concept short version of a potential splatter feature in the vein of Joe Begos (who director Jarret Blinkhorn has worked with previously and gets a special thanks in the closing credits). Following a radio broadcast from the president, massive numbers…
PUFF 2017: Beauty, Gore, Metal, and Tits – A Day 1 Wrap Up
When he wears her tits… just wow. That’s the text I received when I woke up this morning. I don’t get texts like this very often. A text like this at 7:00am could only mean one thing – PUFF 2 has begun. 2016’s inagural Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (known as PUFF) was my favorite movie…
RL Stine’s Latest GOOSEBUMPS Book is His Best One Yet
I read this book in two nights. The first night I ready chapters 1-15. I finished chapters 16-31 on the second night. I wrote this review in two parts. Chapters 1-15: So far, I give this book 5 stars because chapters 1-3 are really scary and awesome. Chapters 4-15 are scary too. The first Slappyworld…
PUFF 2017: Heavy Metal Fun and Brutality, DEATH METAL Be Thy Name
Death Metal plays tonight at PUFF, along with feature films Imitation Girl and Terrifier. Get tickets to the film or a full pass at FilmFreeway! This is a short film, 5 minutes to be exact, and it goes by in a blink. However, the fast pace and short runtime don’t stop this from being one…
Terror TWOsdays: Short on Runtime, But Not on Gore
I’m a week late on posting this, but the movies are good and I didn’t want to wait till next week. So, here are two recommendations of wildly different short films. One hilarious horror comedy short and one disturbing avant-garde short, the two films are both interesting glimpses of the creative minds at work in…
New Music Monday: Johnny MFin Zuko
Double dose of New Music Monday today, with our recommendation of J. Lee’s “Datgum” coming just a little bit ago. Our second artist, also a hip hop head, is Johnny Zuko. Pictured above, Zuko explains: I’m an M.C. from the Santa Cruz area I go by Johnny Zuko and I was heavily influenced by East…
Get Thee to NYC for Grady Hendrix’s PAPERBACKS FROM HELL
Tommorow night, Tuesday September 19th, author and performer Grady Hendrix comes to NYC’s Miskatonic Institute to deliver his own of a kind oral history of horror fiction. We’ll be talking to him in the coming weeks about the experience of this event and all of the crazy awesome stuff he’s been working on, but everyone…
Terror TWOsdays: AGFA and Film Detective Restorations of EFFECTS and VOODOO BLACK EXORCIST
[Editor’s Note: We have a new graphic header for the column. I hope you like it!] Effects (1980) Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the “killings” in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a “snuff” film. Director Dusty Nelson may have gotten his…
TOBE TUESDAY: Tobe Invades Our Imaginations with His 1986 Cannon Remake of the Classic INVADERS FROM MARS
As I sit here watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for the first time in my adult life (it’s possible I’ve never seen it 100% through and unedited, to be honest) and I have Eaten Alive queued up, I can’t help but think to myself, “Goddammit, John Carpenter better get to the doctor stat!” We’ve…
Peter and Andrea from WTF! Catch Up with The Farsighted
A few weeks ago, I recommended the new horror film WTF! as part of our inaugural entry in Terror TWOsdays. I really enjoyed the film and highly recommend all Amazon Prime users check it out. Since then, I was able to catch up with the film’s star Andrea and director Peter. Peter and Andrea, thanks…
Thank God for Harry Guerro: Garagehouse Unearths Mickey Rooney’s Lost Slasher, THE INTRUDER
As a film, The Intruder wasn’t necessarily a favorite I’ve seen this year. In fact, it wasn’t even one I would rank anywhere close to my favorites. However, I am so thankful for it and for its release. Every moment I watched, I felt myself smiling, beaming with pride perhaps, for someone from my hometown…
Terror TWOsdays: Gritty Horror on a Modest Budget
[Editor’s Note: Terror TWOsdays is my latest column, just an excuse to talk about more horror films. Notably, I’ll be hitting up two independent, lesser known, and/or underappreciated horror and horror adjacent movies. And with that, I bring you two films to fear. Stay tuned for the official intro graphic in the coming weeks… but…
MOHAWK, Publicity, and All That Jazz: Talking to Ted Geoghegan at Fantasia 2017
As our final cherry on top of the wonderful sundae of Fantasia 2017 coverage, I was lucky enough to catch up with director Ted Geoghegan, whose follow up to the impressive We are Still Here debuted at Fantasia this year. In addition to debuting Mohawk at the festival, Ted was a vital cog in the…