Short of the Week #14: M is for Matador
In keeping with the anthology theme, I wanted to focus on filmmakers who broke out while competing in the ABC's of Death series. Today's short is Gigi Saul Guerrero's ABC's of Death 2.5 segment M is...
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Worth The Price of Admission
Happy Friday the 13th everyone! The next anthology I pulled off the shelf was Jeff Burr's 1987 flick The Offspring aka From A Whisper To A Scream.On the eve of his daughter's execution, a writer...
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Rats make everything better. Ghost agrees with me! Here's their new video where they go all Italian horror!!!
View ArticleShort of the Week #15: T is for Turbo
One of the breakout contest shorts from the first ABC's of Death was 2011's T is For Turbo from French Canadians François Simard and Anouk & Yoann-Karl Whissell.Not only were this trio able to...
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Go To Bed!
The next VHS off my shelf is Jeff Delman’s 1986 anthology Deadtime Stories.While babysitting, Uncle Mike (Michael Mesmer) tells his young nephew three stories to try and get him to sleep. Deadtime...
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Short of the Week #16: W is for Wish.
Filmmakers I have been following for a long time are Astron 6 alumnus Steve Kostanski& Jeremy Gillespie. Here is one of their most infamous collaborations, W is for Wish from ABC's of Death 2.After...
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To The West!
I'm headed out west this weekend for the Calgary Underground Film Festival. I'll be representing my latest project The Good Samaritan which plays today as part of the A Turn For The Worse shorts...
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CUFF '18
Wow, what a fantastic trip that was! I was only gone three nights, but boy did I fill it up with some bangin' stuff, including sampling some Alberta beef, a side road trip to Banff with an old friend...
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CUFF Shorts.
I mentioned yesterday that Calgary Underground hosted two strong shorts programmes last week. I was lucky to be there for both and was really impressed by the range on display from filmmakers around...
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That's the Way!
For the final VHS for Anthology April, I wanted to post about a title that is near and dear to my heart, Michael Armstrong& Stanley A. Long's 1983 effort Screamtime.Two petty criminals steal three...
View ArticleShort of the Week #17: The Armoire
I was glad to see one of my favourite shorts from last year show up on recently show up on YouTube. Evan Cooper's The Armoire is everything you want in a creeper. The page proclaims “FOR BEST VIEWING...
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Shock Stock 2018!
Last weekend was yet another greasy edition of Shock Stock. I barely had time to recover from the Carpenter Brut show the night before I was speeding down the 401 to London, Ontario.It was once again...
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Big Snake On Campus.
This week I watched one of my recent Shock Stock acquisitions, 1983's Spasms.A British millionaire (Oliver Reed) gains a telepathic connection with a snake demon after being bitten while hunting in New...
View ArticleShort of the Week #18: Dirty Silverware
This week's short is Steve Daniels' whimsical 2011 effort entitled Dirty Silverware. I've always loved this short because it is a perfect example of a great concept fleshed out into a well executed...
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Tex-A-Thon
Last weekend, I partook in the latest marathon at my friend Serena’s place which consisted of watching all the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. Out of all these events I have participated in (Scream,...
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Doctor Snore
In an attempt to continue a theme started with last weekend's Tex-a-Thon, I pulled J.G. Patterson's 1972 flick The Body Shop off the shelf.A grieving mad scientist (also Patterson) and his hunchbacked...
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R.I.P. Margot Kidder 1948-2018
My crappy Monday got even crappier when I heard about the passing of actress Margot Kidder. Kidder died in her sleep yesterday at her home in Montana. She was 69.R.I.P. Margot Kidder 1948-2018I was...
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Short of the Week #19: Fun
One of my favourite shorts last year was Greg Kovacs'Fun. Recalling the children show puppetry of his 2013 effort Tasha & Friends, this will surely win you over. Check it out below.Wasn't that...
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That Ain't Smokey...
This week I watched my recently acquired VHS of John Frankenheimer's 1979 environmental horror Prophecy.The waste from a lumber mill causes mutations in the surrounding inhabitants, the most dangerous...
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