SXSW 2021
The Spine Of Night Is A Fitting Throwback To Fantasy Epics [SXSW 2021 Review]
Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King’s The Spine Of Night is a throwback to a particular vein of fantasy fueled adult animation that had only the briefest of mainstream moments before becoming a ...
Alien On Stage Is A Surprisingly Sweet Tribute To A Sci Fi Classic [SXSW 2021 Review]
Alien On Stage follows the amateur theater group Paranoid Dramatics as they attempt to adapt Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic to the community theater stage. By day, the players are an unassuming gro...
The Feast Is An Elegant Eco Horror Hybrid [SXSW 2021 Review]
The Feast opens with an unexplained death on a mining site, then cuts to the severity of a Modernist vacation home in rural Wales. The drilling site is hazy, dirty work, while the spotless home is the...
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break [SXSW 2021 Review]
Paul Dood is not a great stage name for a U.S. audience, or really any audience to be fair. And yet schlubby momma’s boy Paul (Tom Meeten) is convinced he has what it takes to make it big. The ...
Sound of Violence Is a Stunning Debut [SXSW 2021 Review]
Sound of Violence is an interesting companion piece to Sound of Metal, the Riz Ahmed-starring, Oscar-nominated drama about a drummer who suddenly loses his hearing, and not simply because the two movi...
Broadcast Signal Intrusion Combines Conspiracy and Creepypasta Into An Ambiguous Techno Thriller [SXSW 2021 Review]
There’s a certain kind of solitude that cuts unusually deep, isolation that can slice right through the middle of a crowd. Broadcast Signal Intrusion is set in late 90s Chicago, but direct...
‘Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror’ Is A Worthy Documentary Deep Dive [SXSW 2021 Review]
While the term “folk horror” is relatively new, the imagery and concepts are familiar to most horror fans. Isolated communities and dark secrets. Ancient rites and forgotten incantations w...
Offseason is Divertingly Mysterious [SXSW 2021 Review]
Offseason is undoubtedly un film de Mickey Keating, which will either fill you with excitement or dread. Opening with the great Melora Walters (give her more work!) delivering a monologue to camera be...
Witch Hunt is Radical Horror [SXSW 2021 Review]
Witch Hunt, the sophomore feature from writer-director Elle Callahan (Head Count), opens with two definitions of its title. The first is the traditional one, while the second considers how the term ha...