Chattanooga Film Festival: Proyecto Fantasma (2022)
Pablo (Juan Cano) dreams of being an actor but until that happens, he’s paying the bills doing the only acting role he can find, playing a patient that medical school students can practice on, as well as taking part as a paid member of alternative therapy sessions. Much of this movie — well, maybe not […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Interface (2017)
Originally a web series, each segment of this tool two months to make, created by Canadian YouTuber and animator u m a m i, whose real name is Justin Tomchuk. You can see a collected version of the first part of the series here and the second part here. I guess the thing to realize […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Honeycomb (2022)
Leader (Destini Stewart), Willow (Sophie Bawks-Smith), Jules (Jillian Frank), Vicky (Mari Geraghty) and Millie (Rowan Wales) have gone all Lord of the Flies Canada edition and leave behind parents and boyfriends to live in the woods all on their own with their own rules and things go about exactly as well as you’d expect when five […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: The History of Metal and Horror (2022)
Metal and horror are the two things that got me out of a small-minded high school during the height of the Satanic Panic and have been part of my life every single day. So why did I just finish a two and a half hour plus documentary about both and feel let down? Is it […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Munkie (2021)
Jennifer Pan’s parents left Vietnam for Canada where they toiled at Magna International, an auto parts manufacturer in Ontario, working hard at car part manufacturing so that their children would have a much better life than they did. They were also incredibly strict and had extremely high expectations. Jennifer was already training to be an […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Sleep (2022)
Director and writer Alexandra Pechman (who wrote an episode of the lamented Channel Zero, “Where Did You Sleep Last Night”) has an audacious idea here: film Kate Adams (who was also in her film Thumb) for nearly four minutes in the same unmoving shot as she loses her mind at the sound of home invaders just feet […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: What Happened to The Others? (2022)
With just 7 minutes and $6,000 in the budget to tell the story, Douglas Wicker (Bang the Drum: The Life & Death of a Small Town Music Scene, Bad People) deals with a family’s trauma by way of mysterious creatures that they’re been worrying about since grandfather first saw them fifty years ago. Now, it seems […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: The Woodsman (2022)
If you told me that a movie about a man struggling to sell the last three trees out of his lot on Christmas Eve would be one of the best films that I saw at a festival, well, I probably would have laughed. And then probably asked you to show me this magical movie. I’m […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Box (2022)
Directed by Jonathan Shander, who wrote the film with Joe Wolff and produced it with Sage Bennett, Box starts Max Rubin as a doomsday prepper whose life is routine, routine, routine. Well, a strange box shows up and throws his whole life into a toe shooting off frenzy. It isn’t about how the box got there or […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Smile (2021)
Six minutes, two characters and incredibly unsettling, Smile is a simple metaphor for depression told in an incredibly stunning way. Anna (Konstantina Mantelos, who was in one of my favorite recent horror films, Anything for Jackson) is the only human we see in this movie — we hear Ashley Laurence (Kristy from the Hellraiser films) as the voice […]
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