Calgary Underground Film Festival

Teresa (Madison Lanesey) and Drew (Travis Quentin Young) are on their late honeymoon, and the marriage isn’t all that great for Teresa. Drew? Everyone loves the guy, and he seems so happy no matter what. Teresa is one of those people who constantly has to tell everyone how much she loves them, even calling an… Read more

Charlie Bailey (Eric Tabach) hosts the Paranormalcy podcast, struggling to get noticed as a crowded white guy with a podcast space. I can relate. Then, he meets Duncan Slayback (Gabriel Rush), who tells him he can prove that ghosts don’t exist. After all, his fiancee died and has never come back to him. To further… Read more

From the CUFF guide: “From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet: turning the residents of Marlow into his personal army of vampire zombies. Terror grips the town as a full-blown zombie outbreak erupts, leaving chaos in its wake. A motley crew consisting of a grizzled detective, a sceptical rookie… Read more

From the CUFF Guide: “In the chaos of Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park, a teenage usher named Vince Lawrence witnessed the fiery backlash against disco—a sound that defined freedom and pride. Undeterred by the hostility, Vince used his earnings to buy a synthesizer, setting in motion a journey that would change music forever. Venturing… Read more

I had a roommate who used to tell us Yinzers how much better everything was in Philadelphia. He would go on and on about the excesses of Wing Bowl and I’d think, “Who could live through such a thing?” Now I have my answer. From villain Damaging Doug to the vomiting of Matt “Sloth” Dutton,… Read more

I’ve been way too lax in reviewing this movie, which I’ve been wanting to see for a long time. Sometimes, when I love a filmmaker, such as Christopher Bickel, whose The Theta Girl and Bad Girls are both incredible watches, or an artist, I always worry about their next work. What was I thinking? This movie is so… Read more

Directed by Graham Mason, who also created 2018’s Reveries and 2020’s Reveries: Going Deeper, this was co-written by stars Matt Barats and Anthony Oberbeck, who play two drifters wandering through a desert. The quote on this film is: “Who are those guys? Poets or something? I always see them around coffeeshops…no laptops…weird…are they artists? Philosophers?…They seem… Read more

From the CUFF program: “The story of D.O.A. frontman Joey “Shithead” Keithley, who transitioned from a punk activist musician to politician when he was elected for the Green Party in Burnaby, BC. In 2018, punk icon Joe Keithley turned art into reality by winning a council seat in his hometown of Vancouver. When he ran… Read more

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also… Read more

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also… Read more