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.…
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BLADE RUNNER 2049 “In One Ostentatious Word: Fan-fucking-tastic!”
It is 10:08 on Thursday night and I have just made it home after seeing Blade Runner 2049. I walked out the cinemas doors and felt the cool air meet me as I walked to my car, strolling through the poorly lit parking lot. Usually I would start calling folks or texting after a movie,…
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: ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977)
A beautiful DVD transfer, The Island of Doctor Moreau stars Academy Award winner, Burt Lancaster, (Best Actor, Elmer Gantry – 1961), Michael York (Cabaret; the Austin Powers trilogy) and Barbara Carrera (Never Say Never Again; Dallas). It is technically the fifth film adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novel of the same name, but only the…
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: 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…
PUFF 2017: Dirty, Shitty, and Unforgettable ASSHOLES
Assholes plays Friday night at PUFF. It starts at 11:00. Get tickets to the film or a full pass at FilmFreeway! The greatest sin a film can commit is not to be bad, it’s to be forgettable. I’ll say this about Peter Vack’s directorial debut Assholes, it’s not forgettable. It’s disgusting. It’s irritating. At times,…
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…
PUFF 2017: Evil Clown Named Art Makes Pennywise Look Like Krusty in Aptly Named TERRIFIER
Terrfier is the festival’s second movie of opening night at the festival. It starts at 9:30. Get tickets to the film or a full pass at FilmFreeway! Tonight’s opening film, Imitation Girl, is a meditative and beautiful science fiction tome. After a brief reprise and ceremony, the night will continue with something just a bit…
PUFF 2017: Lauren Ashley Carter Stars in Natasha Kermani’s Contemplative Sci-Fi Film IMITATION GIRL
Imitation Girl is the festival’s opening night movie at the festival. It starts at 7:00. Get tickets to the film or a full pass at FilmFreeway!
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…
The Kid in Black Recommends: Randy Kaplan’s Latest is For Kids, But Not *Just* For Kids
[Editor’s Note: Just a word from Cash’s dad and editor… he writes these pieces all by himself, at only 8 years old. I simply type them up, edit them, and occasionally embellish or fix a sentence. I don’t really do more than I have with many articles from adults that I edit. With this in…
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…
Kathleen Kills It on Scream Factory’s Special Edition of SERIAL MOM
John Waters, eternal outlaw of cinema, has always treated filth with the respect it deserves. His filmography is instantly recognizable by its embrace of schlock, camp and bad taste; gleefully thumbing his nose at the hypocrisy and cowardice that lie behind the mask of “polite” society. But by 1994, Hollywood had come around to John…
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…
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…
ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENICE, Someone Stole Bruce Willis’s Dog and There Was Hell to Pay
Private Dick, Steve Ford (Bruce Willis) is a payday to payday, making end meet investigator who enjoys the company of beautiful women, is tough as nails, and is a man of his word. His partner, the films’s narrator, is John (Thomas Middleditch), an awkward and young apprentice, who seems to often be more lucky than…
Terror TWOsdays: WTF and HANK BOYD IS DEAD
[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…
Remembering Romero, Part 1: Friday Frights is Back with TWO EVIL EYES
The loss of George Romero was felt pretty deeply by us here at The Farsighted. He is one of the founding fathers of contemporary horror, and his influence is enormous. And not just in the “Walking-Dead-wouldn’t-exist-without-Romero” kind of way, either. He helped change the look and feel of horror films in very real, tangible ways.…
FANTASIA 2017: Our Very Own Lowlifes Review LOWLIFE, Part 2 – Doug’s Take
A colossal achievement in low-budget ingenuity and skill, Lowlife marks the arrival of a major new filmmaking talent in director Ryan Prows. Despite flashes of pop culture eccentricity and extreme violence, Prows breaks free of his Tarantino-esque trappings to deliver a beautifully structured, wonderfully acted and darkly comic thriller tinged with that most rare of…
FANTASIA 2017: Our Very Own Lowlifes Review LOWLIFE, Part 1 – Mondo’s Take
When I first saw the trailer for Lowlife, I was instantly hyped on the outlandish imagery. Seeing a hulking luchador cross cut with gun shots and brutality, it had me liking the flick before I ever saw it. I made sure not to read any press or dive too deep into the synopsis and wanted…
Come to the ALTAR: Found Footage was Lost but Now It’s Found
When I was a kid, my parents and I went camping at a place called Thomas Mountain in California. Eerie place – you always felt like someone was watching you. One time we found a bunch of camping equipment left behind: blankets, sleeping bags, thermos, etc. No one ever showed up to claim them. I…