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The Wave of the Future.
It was twenty-five years ago that I sat in a theatre and watched Rachel Talalay's Ghost in the Machine so I figured now was as good a time as any for a revisit to see how much I actually remembered....
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Short of the Week #8: Slut
This week is Chloe Okuno's wildly stylish short film from 2014, Slut.I was instantly smitten with this short when I saw it during its festival run. We actually tried to get it for Minutes Past...
View ArticleThen He's Still There...
This is so freaking badass. A few years ago, someone put a Friday the 13th Part VI era Jason Voorhees statue at the bottom of a lake in Minnesota. That's some fan dedication and next level prankage,...
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A Girl & Her Doll
This week I checked out my VHS of Eddy Matalon's 1977 killer kid vehicle Cathy's Curse.A young girl (Randi Allen) becomes possessed by the ghost of her aunt after her family moves into their ancestral...
View ArticleShort of the Week #9: Apaches
After falling down a YouTube rabbit hole some weeks ago, I discovered this farm safety short film from the UK called Apaches. As was the case with most European public service scare films of the era,...
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Typecasting.
I discovered a cute little game/joke/demo the other day called “David Lynch Teaches Typing”.It's good for more than a few laughs and, as you would expect, goes to places both wonderful and strange. The...
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It's A Dead Man's Party!
The next VHS off the pile was William Fruet's 1986 effort Killer Party.A sorority pledge party in an condemned frat house turns bloody when an uninvited guest arrives.This was another title that I knew...
View ArticleShort of the Week #10
A short I caught at Fantasia last year has recently found its way online. Without further ado, here is Jessica Curtright& Santiago C. Tapia's short film It Began Without Warning.There's some...
View ArticleThe Bad Man Cometh
The Kickstarter campaign for Scott Schirmer's latest opus, The Bad Man launched today. As you can see from the trailer below, it has just the level of depravity you would expect from the director of...
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Ma & Pa Death
This week’s VHS is the instantly recognizable 1987 John Hough joint, American Gothic.A group of vacationers end up stranded on an island inhabited by a family of psychos.I have no real excuse as to why...
View ArticleGacha Gacha
Here's another Kickstarter worth taking a gander at if you're into either black humour and/or weird indie cinema. Last year you may recall an Australian film called Cat Sick Blues getting under my...
View ArticleShort of the Week #11: The Itching
This week is Dianne Bellino's terrific 2016 stop-motion animated short film The Itching. While not horror persay, I think it is one of the best visual representations of social anxiety I've ever seen...
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Go West!
I have some great news. My latest short The Good Samaritan will be playing the 15th edition of the Calgary Underground Film Festival next month.I was lucky enough to have The Monitor play there in...
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Shake Him Down, Shake Him Down
This week I watched the Dean Crow's Indianian import Backwoods (aka Geek) from 1987.A couple biking across America run afoul of a family living deep in the woods.I feel like this film has been slightly...
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What The Weekend!
Over the last few days, I've had an extremely busy and fruitful weekend splitting my time between two festivals. The inaugural Hexploitation Film Festival in Hamilton and the fourth edition of What the...
View ArticleShort of the Week #12: Junk Head
I mentioned a film yesterday that played What the Film Fest called Junk Head. It is a stop-motion animated opus from Japanese filmmaker Takahide Hori. Essentially made by just Hori himself over the...
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Welcome To Potter's Bluff
This week it's Gary Sherman's 1981 horror film Dead & Buried.I have to admit that I cheated this week. I did not watch a VHS, but rather attended a special screening of the film at The Royal with...
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Break The Mirror!
Last Wednesday, The Black Museum held its newest lecture at The Royal.This long running series has put on many great events in the past, but this one in particular was extra special, as filmmaker Gary...
View ArticleShort of the Week #13: Killer Kart
Here's a oldie, but a goodie in Floridian James Feeney's short film Killer Kart from 2012.
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Tales From The Mountain State!
I decree April to be Anthology Month!!! Over the next four weeks, I'm going to post about the three unwatched anthologies I have on my VHS shelf (with the last TBD) starting with Daniel Boyd's...
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