Chattanooga Film Festival 2025: The Craft (1996)
You know, I love the movies Ideal Home and Bad Dreams. I’d never guess that they were both written and directed by the same person, Andrew Fleming. You may not know the man, but chances are you know his 1996 film, The Craft. Producer Douglas Wick (he produced Stuart Little and also co-wrote the sequels) wanted to create a […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Red Eye #6: Southlander (2001)
Originally titled Recycler, after the Los Angeles magazine of the same name, this has a keyboard player named Chance (Rory Cochrane) getting to tour with dub-pop band Future Pigeon and their lead singer Rocket (Beth Orton), as long as he finds his signature sound. It exists in a Molotron keyboard which gets stolen the night […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: NOCLIP 2: Return to Lunchland (2025)
“In this sequel to the award-winning found-footage film NOCLIP, the two explorers return from the void in search of even more liminal spaces. They find new backrooms which lead to multiple surreal locations, plus some familiar ones.” Directed, written by and starring Gavin Charles and Alex Conn, this Kansas City-filmed microbudget film takes viewers into […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Itch! (2024)
“Amid a mysterious deadly outbreak called the ITCH. A widower and his estranged young daughter take sanctuary in a department store, only to realize the real terror is inside with them.” Directed, written by and starring Bari Kang, this has a disease call the Itch, which makes you scratch yourself, mutilating your body until there’s […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Even More Dangerous Visions
My last round of shorts. Chickenboy (2024): When a lonely farmer accidentally makes a chicken-human hybrid by jerking off in the chicken coop, he must decide what their fate will be. Directed by and starring Matthew Rush — as both the farmer and the chickenboy — this is something else, a world where humans and chicken can […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Fun Sized Epics vol. 2
Almost through all the shorts! DID YOU REMEMBER THE CAT? (2024): Directed by Daniel Foster, who wrote the script with Autumn Olson, this has Tara (Angelique Maurnae) and Mitch (Jonny H Lee) escaping a house party turned horror movie. But then they realize that they forgot the cat and not even a monster can keep […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Bride of WTF
WTF got married and here are more shorts. Beef Creek (2024): Occultist Mr. Petrulo runs a New York-style deli in middle of nowhere Wyoming with Horace, Sandra, Lily and Ralphie. That’s the quick description, and as I always write, hijinks ensue. In this pilot, Ralphie falls into a pocket dimension inside the deli’s dumpster and is […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Salutes Your Shorts Again
DiMore shorts? Yes! Bloody Marian (2025): A bartender with a bit of an attitude faces a significant challenge when a customer arrives whose taste for drink can’t be stopped. Directed and written by Sommar Ashleigh Boulware, this film has a great visual look, reminiscent of Sin City, and a fun premise. Dead Pet Shark (2025): Directed and written by […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: WTF (Watch These Films)
Another round of shorts? Let’s watch them. Is That a Mime (2024): First off, yes, that is a mime. Second, if you encounter a mime in the park and it appears to be a killing machine, the chances are very good that, indeed, that mime is a killing machine. Directed and written by Phil Cheney, this film […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Dangerous Visions
More shorts? Yes! Bathroom Spider (2025): Directed by Christine Weatherup and written by C.J. Hoke, this short finds a young bride (Ivy Strohmaier) having her heart callously broken by her husband (Logan Eller). With only her bathroom spider to confide in, he will soon find that he’s not the only one able to go through great change […]
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