A Film Festival meets Slumber Party meets Glamping. That’s the Cabin in the Woods Film Festival, a brand new experience being brought to you from horror Author Crystal Connor. Join the Scariest Things, and all of Crystal’s special guests for a one-of-a-kind experience, made special for horror fans. Come join us!
Chattanooga Film Festival serves up another scintillating cinematic stew of genre films for its 2023 edition, running June 23rd through […]
For a powerful examination of the other side of exorcisms, check out Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism coming out on May 30 on TUBI! You can get a primer for the film with The Scariest Things Interview with the Director and Cast of the film. Listen in, and go get to the TUBI!
On Saturday, May 27th at 3:45 p.m., the black comedy CLAUDIA— directed by Edward Westrop — will have its world premiere at The Romford Film Festival.
It’s the Original Crew of Mike and Eric for Episode 13! We gave Robert and Liz the day off…
In this Episode, Mike announces a new Faces of Death movie (Really!) and the release of Count Crowley: Amateur Midnight Monster Hunter.
Eric talks about his new Horror Movie production fantasy draft experience: The Horror Movie Greenlight Pitch that will be coming out at Crypticon later this month.
Chattanooga Film Festival serves up another scintillating cinematic stew of genre films for its 2023 edition, running June 23rd through the 29th.
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A couple whose marriage is decidedly not in a good place — and add a newborn baby to that mix — find their lives fraught with horror thanks to the titular piece of furniture in the Spanish feature The Coffee Table.
Joseph reviews three fine short films from MidWest WeirdFest.
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Beaten to Death is a bloody and beautiful nightmare from down under!
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A bachelorette party goes to hell when the groom-to-be springs a supernatural surprise on his fiancée and her friends in this blood-soaked shocker.
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Put on your corpse paint and listen for the Invoking Yell!
Chattanooga Film Festival offers up its first wave announcement for 2023!
Panic Fest is back at the Screenland Armour theater in Kansas City, MO and virtually from your couch! The in […]
The Overlook Film Festival just concluded its 2023 event, and it really flexed its influence this year. By my count there were two ★★★★★ movies and at least five ★★★★ movies, meaning that we will see several of them back at the best of awards this year. There are several films here that will be influential for years to come, I am certain. Overlook has once again treated us to some of the best curated films in the genre, and from this festival I can assure our fans that there is much to look forward to coming soon to a theater near you. Listen to Eric and Liz discuss the best (and worst) of the event.
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Marijuana trimmers find themselves smack dab in the middle of some occult goings-on in this well-paced chiller that debuted at Overlook 2023.
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Joseph reviews pregnancy horror film CLOCK, which premiered at Overlook and heads to Hulu on April 28, 2023.
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Evil Dead Rise is everything you would want a film in this franchise to be. It gets to the bloody action right from the start, and does not let up once it gets rolling. This incredibly gory film reconstructs the fundamental Evil Dead script in by making it a family-forward story, but it still walks a familiar path.
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Accused is a white-knuckle, home invasion thrill ride that grabs you early and never lets you go.
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This is a horror movie that examines exorcisms, not from the horror of the demonic possession itself, but that of the zealotry and shoddy practices of non-sanctioned exorcisms as exercised by charismatic charlatans. It recognizes the fragility of those who are mentally ill and the unfortunate abuse that they receive when those who are supposed to love and care for them instead seek help from the questionable practices of religious hucksters.
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Ted Geogeghan wrote and directed a nifty mystery box of a film wherein a group of WWII army officers support their friend, Lt. Colonel Hockstetter (Larry Fessenden) in his attempts to to reconnect with his recently deceased wife. A terrific veteran cast delivers the drama in this well constructed (and occasionally bloody) ghostly escape room of a story.
Joseph reviews two fine features from Boston Underground Film Festival.
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Joseph reviews two splatterific mayhem-and-mirth features from FrightFest Glasgow.
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Surreal sci-fi in bite sized pieces, Shatter Belt will shatter your expectations!
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Each and every year there’s THAT horror film that shakes things up. Hits the festival circuit and creates tidal wave-sized buzz. Sometimes it’s deserved and sometimes it’s not. In the case of 2023’s festival darling Talk to Me, the buzz is profoundly deserved.
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A hundred years on we’ve been blessed and not-so-blessed with hundreds, or maybe thousands or Frankenstein-related films. Remakes, reboots, re-imaginations, reworking of the Mary Shelley source material, and even re-re-working of Shelley’s book. The Frankenstein mythos has comfortable slipped into our collective horror zeitgeist.
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If you’ve even run across Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, or Dinah Shore you’ll know that they all roiled in a very specific talk show space in the 1970s. Talk shows were smarmy, boozy, and informal affairs that gave audiences time each day to let their hair down and forget about the doldrums of the Viet Nam War and the crushing presence of socio-economic injustice in America.
These talk shows were also incredibly competitive. Johnny Carson was king, but there was a lot of room under him to vie for advertisers and Neilson ratings. Late Night with the Devil follows that exact story line, by exploring frustrated talk show host Jack Delroy played pitch perfectly by David Dastmalchian.
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Raging Grace breathes new life into classic gothic horror.
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Midway through Only the Good Survive the local sheriff and Dennis Miller impersonator (Frederick Weller) is interrogating young Brea Dunlee (Sidney Flanigan) about her involvement in a string of ritualistic murders and asks “…is this a comedy or a horror?” While the film chugs along like an Edgar Wright-inspired effort, this very sentiment is really the film’s problem. It wants to be both. Unfortunately, juggling these two juxtaposed art forms is a tricky bit of business that is almost never accomplished.
