GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Inter-State (2025)
In this film by Sam Gorman, an idealistic scientist named Bentley McCrissus (Aubrey Clyburn) gets recruited by a tech startup. They claim to be close to creating the world’s first teleportation device. If we’ve learned anything from movie about this, it’s that things that can go from point A to point B through some other […]
Murder, She Wrote S2 E9: Jessica Behind Bars (1985)
Jessica visits a women’s prison and is held captive when an uprising occurs because of abuse and murder at the facility. Season 2, Episode 9: Jessica Behind Bars (December 1, 1985) Tonight on Murder, She Wrote… Jessica teaches a class for a women’s prison on the day it locks down, and the staff doctor gets killed. […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: House of Ashes (2024)
Meat Friend, a short that director and co-writer (with Steve Johanson) Izzy Lee made, is one of the best short films I’ve seen, so I was excited about this feature. Mia (Fayna Sanchez) has lost her husband and her baby, which has led to her being jailed in her home, as she lives in a […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Madhouse (2004)
Aug 25-31 Natasha Lyonne Week: There’s a new season of her weirdo mystery of the week coming out (I can’t remember the name rn, you can look it up), and she’s been steadily delivering chuckles for decades now. William Butler was killed in numerous horror movies. In Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Tonight and Maybe Tomorrow (2025)
Directed and written by Michael Smallwood — who also shows up in the beginning of the story as the host; he was Marcus the doctor in the recent Halloween films, the same name he uses in the film — this is about a party at the end of the world. Within this strange time, Addison (Shivam Patel) […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: First Drafts: The Outcasts (2025)
What if you rediscovered the script you wrote when you were 12? And what if you performed it with real actors, without changing a word? In Michelle Iannantuono’s First Drafts: The Outcasts, actors including Iannantuono, Maddox-Julien Slide, Evan Michael Pearce, Gregory Howard Jr., LG Wylie, JJ Schaeffer, Anna Lin and Michael James Daly do exactly […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Dennis the Menace (1993)
Aug 25-31 Natasha Lyonne Week: There’s a new season of her weirdo mystery of the week coming out (I can’t remember the name rn, you can look it up), and she’s been steadily delivering chuckles for decades now. Dennis Mitchell (Mason Gamble) spends time with his friends Joey McDonald (Kellen Hathaway) and Margaret Wade (Amy […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Sugar Rot (2025)
Candy (Chloe Macleod) used to be a good girl until the ice cream man delivered to her work and violently took her into the back room, injecting her with something this film never explains, an illness that makes her so sweet that her body becomes cake that everyone wants to devour. How strange that the […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Burnt Flowers (2024)
Directed and written by Michael Fausti, this film takes place in 1968, 1983, and 1992, starting with Alice Kyteller (Ayvianna Snow) in 1992, telling the police that her husband, Austin (Adrian Viviani), has gone missing. The problem? When Detective Franc Alban (Amber Doig-Thorne) asks when she last saw him, the answer is eight years ago. […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: The Man With the Black Umbrella (2025)
“On January 8th, 2015, a man with a black umbrella broke into 818 Hilltop Drive at 3:38a.m., committing a double murder. The investigation that ensued proved that some murders shouldn’t be solved.” Directed and written by Ricky Umberger (Project Eerie), this found footage film concerns a man being haunted by, well, precisely what the title […]
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