Chattanooga Film Festival: The Leech (2022)
Father David (Graham Skipper, the director of Sequence Break) is a devout priest who has never missed a Mass, never eaten meat on a Good Friday and never misses the opportunity to speak on God’s love, including when he invites Terry (Jeremy Gardner, the director of After Midnight and the man who told his mother not to […]
Tubi picks (week 8)
Welcome to another week of movies to watch on Tubi. Do you have some that you’d like to share? Get in touch because I’d love to share your picks. 1. Mary Mary, Bloody Mary: TUBI LINK Juan López Moctezuma also made Alucarda, one of the most blasphemous blasts of sheer madness ever committed to celluloid. He […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Bitch Ass (2022)
When a movie starts with Tony Todd asking if you know your hood horror, then name drops Blacula, Bones, Tales from the Hood, The People Under the Stairs and Candyman, it has a lot to live up to. Luckily, Bitch Ass more than succeeds. Director Bill Posely, who started his career as an actor before writing episodes of Cobra Kai and directing several […]
Muñeca Reina (1972)
Queen Doll is a film about the dangers of nostalgia. When Carlos (Enrique Rocha) comes back to his hometown, he starts to remember moments of his past that he’s long forgotten. A copy of Tom Sawyer — the movie even has scenes from the book filmed and presented almost as flashbacks — has a map inside […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: A Pure Place (2021)
Irina (Greta Bohacek) and her brother Paul (Claude Heinrich) are Firstlings, the young members of a cult based around an upper caste that strives to remain pure and clean, while its opposite lower members are devoted to making soap, herding pigs and living in darkness and filth. All decisions are made by Fust (Sam Louwyck), who has set […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968
Take Noriaki Yuasa, the director of the original eight Gamera movies, and pair him with Kazuo Umezu, who created The Drifting Classroom, and have them make a movie that should be for kids but is the type of motion picture that destroys minds and reaps souls (and is filled with nightmarish visions and brutal murders). Sayuri has […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Ming kiyal (1000 Nights) (2021)
There’s a quote at the start of this movie that was so great that I wrote it down: “True love is wild and sad. This is the thrill of two beings in the darkness.” Director Marat Sarulu, who co-wrote this movie with Emil Jumabaev, also made Move, Songs from the Southern Seas and The Rough River, the Placid […]
El Vampiro (1957)
The horror boom in Mexican film can be attributed to this movie, one that takes Mexico’s love for the Universall monsters — indeed, there was even a Spanish language version filmed at the same time as Dracula with an entirely different cast and crew — and gives them their own vampiric villain, Conde Karol de Lavud […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)
The Langoliers may be at the bottom of Stephen King adaptions, but if The Timekeepers of Eternity has any say in things, we’ve been misjudging Tom Holland’s 1995 TV miniseries. Animator Aristotelis Maragkos has printed every frame of that movie and used collage animation to reconstruct, remix and retell the story in an entirely new way, […]
Chattanooga Film Fest kicks off!
The Chattanooga Film Fest seeks to curate and share the best of cinema’s past and present while educating and inspiring future generations to create films of their own. By fostering love for cinema of all types from all eras, they hope to create a world in which the medium of motion pictures is treated as […]
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