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Down on her luck Sarah (Hailley Laurén) has returned to her hometown to take possession of the decrepit family home left behind by her deceased mother. Meanwhile, her nosy, unstable neighbor Sandy (Kelsey Pribilski) is insistent that Sarah continue her mother’s holiday traditions, or else. So begins a psychotic duel between two women each dealing with their own pain in very different in director John Valley’s American Dollhouse. When Sarah arrives to meet her brother, Michael (Tinus Seaux), at the above-mentioned ramshackle abode in East Austin, he thinks that the best thing for the family is to sell it off and let some developer tear it down so they can walk away with a little bit of cash instead of a giant headache. Sarah, on…
Elsie Fisher leads a talented ensemble in writer/director Fergus Campbell’s charming adventure.
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at two different videos by Slava Tsukerman. Slava Tsukerman passed away recently at the age of 86. He left behind only a handful of features, half of them documentaries, some shorts and two music videos. The two music videos in question are stylistically immediately recognizable as his work, using a pop art sheen and deliberately flat-looking effects work to build a colorful, vibrant and joyful vision with a punk queer edge. Tsukerman’s most famous film is Liquid Sky, a film that uses eighties New Wave and Punk fashion to tell a gender blending and bending story about aliens and drugs in New York. In…
The final wave of film for this year’s Unnnamed Footage Festival were announced heading into the weekend. This wave includes a couple of folk horror tales from Thai and Ireland, a standout film from SXSW Sydney, and a long unseen faux-doc from celebrated writer and directer, Gary Sherman, which has been scheduled to close out this year’s festival. A selection of short films were announced as well. You will find those below this wave’s announcement. All the feature films can be found in the gallery below. UNNAMED FOOTAGE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL LINEUP OF FILMS INCLUDING WORLD PREMIERES OF THAI FOLK HORROR SAMING, IRISH FOLK HORROR DISTORT 2: DEAD AMONG THE TREES, MIDWEST NOIR ZEBRA HOOVES, AND BAY AREA SHOT THIS HOUSE IS…
The final wave of film for this year’s Unnnamed Footage Festival were announced heading into the weekend. This wave includes a couple of folk horror tales from Thai and Ireland, a standout film from SXSW Sydney, and a long unseen faux-doc from celebrated writer and directer, Gary Sherman, which has been scheduled to close out this year’s festival. A selection of short films were announced as well. You will find those below this wave’s announcement. All the feature films can be found in the gallery below. UNNAMED FOOTAGE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL LINEUP OF FILMS INCLUDING WORLD PREMIERES OF THAI FOLK HORROR SAMING, IRISH FOLK HORROR DISTORT 2: DEAD AMONG THE TREES, MIDWEST NOIR ZEBRA HOOVES, AND BAY AREA SHOT THIS HOUSE IS…
In 2024 Damian McCarthy lit up the horror world with his quietly terrifying Oddity, a film I reviewed for its SXSW world premiere, and while it was topping year end horror lists left and right, I was a bit less enthusiastic. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed the film, and have seen it a couple of times since, but I felt like there was just something missing that couldn’t quite put my finger on. Here we are two years down the road and McCarthy is back, and it’s time for his close-up. This time around he’s back at SXSW with the world premiere of Hokum, backed by the indie powerhouses and Oscar-machines at NEON, and starring one of Hollywood’s most dependable actors, Severance’s Adam…
A traveling psychic medium who specializes in clearing unwanted spirits arrives at a remote Japanese hotel to take on her most unexpected and dangerous challenge yet in Dave Boyle’s ravishingly dark ghost story, Never After Dark. Airi (Moeka Hoshi) makes a modest living traveling the Japanese countryside helping distraught homeowners shoo away ghosts that typically present more of a nuisance than a threat. When she arrives at the hotel owned by Teiko (Tae Kimura) and her son Gunji (actor/producer Kento Kaku, House of Ninjas), she discovers that the entity that has been plaguing the property is unlike any she’s ever experienced. Sending Teiko and Gunji off-site so she can focus on her work, Airi finds herself in a battle for survival against an adversary who…
Mor Cohen and Polaris Banks scripted and star; Polaris Banks directed.
Singer and songwriter Steven Fromholz’s roots go deep and his influence goes wide.