Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: M 10.28 (1999)
Week 1 (June 21 – 27) – Welcome to HELL The summer’s here, so get ready to broil! Bruce Neubauer somehow made this movie in under an hour, and unlike so many Christian scare movies, this isn’t for a strictly religious audience. It also presents a world where teen parties are filled with strobes, people who want to […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026 Red Eye #1: Night Angel (1987)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Adam Hursey is a pharmacist specializing in health informatics by day, but his true passion is cinema. His current favorite films are Back to the Future, Stop Making Sense, and In the Mood for Love. He has written articles for Film East and The Physical Media Advocate, primarily examining older films through the lens of contemporary perspectives. He […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: W.T.F. FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 3
Blossom Needs a Ride Home (2025):Directed by Tim Schwagel. You know how it is. You spend your night fighting off a bloodthirsty maniac, you’re covered in gore, the adrenaline is fading, and now you have the ultimate indignity: trying to get a ride home in the middle of nowhere. I always wonder what happens in […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026 Red Eye #6: The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
High-concept sci-fi. 70s paranoia. Talking dolphins. The Day of the Dolphin is a strange, earnest and a little bit flawed trip. Directed by Mike Nichols—fresh off The Graduate and Carnal Knowledge—this is a somber, weirdly tense thriller that takes its talking dolphins premise with a level of seriousness that borders on the bizarre. Dr. Jake […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: DANGEROUS VISIONS: FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 2
Undertone (2025): Shaun Munro’s Undertone reminds us that the scariest things might be the ones vibrating right beneath our floorboards. The film follows a sound recordist who picks up strange audio frequencies emanating from beneath their home. What starts as a curiosity—the kind of professional obsession that usually leads to a third-act demise—quickly spirals into […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Neverlake (2013)
DAY 27: Italian Cinema! Jenny (Daisy Keeping), a young English woman, heads to Italy to reconnect with her estranged father, Dr. Brooks (David Brandon, Stagefright, Beyond Darkness). Once a respected medical professional, Brooks has traded in his stethoscope for a trowel, acting as an amateur archaeologist obsessed with a lake—an actual place, The Lake of Idols—once worshipped […]
Naked witches on the DIA!
This Saturday, there are two great movies waiting for you on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels at 8 PM EDT. We’ll be joined by Bradley Steele Harding, director of 13 Tracks to Frighten Agatha Black. Want to know what we’ve shown before? Check out this list. Have a request? Make it here. Want to see […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: W.T.F. FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 1
Spanked by a Ghost (2025): Directed by Katelyn Douglass, this follows a lonely protagonist who finds herself living in a house that isn’t just haunted. It’s handsy. But she doesn’t run for the hills. Instead, she becomes obsessed. So what starts off as a standard ghost story becomes an exploration of repressed, supernatural desire. As […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026 Red Eye #8: Hollywood Mortuary (1998) and Demon Queen (1987)
Hollywood Mortuary (2000): Pierce Jackson Dawn (Randal Malone) was one of the greatest make-up artists of the early 20th century. However, his death is quite strange. It came after he wanted to work with horror stars Pratt Borokov (Tim Sullivan) and Janos Blasko (director and writer Ron Ford) for producer Leonard Schein (Wes Deitrick), even though Blasko […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: CFF SALUTES YOUR SHORTS: FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 2
The Second Coming (2025): A young couple is trying to navigate the normal stressors of life. They are looking to cement their future, but that future gets derailed when a divine entity descends. This isn’t your standard angel-on-the-shoulder visit. This entity is cold, intrusive, and treats the couple’slife like a lab experiment. As the entity […]
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