GENRE BLAST X Shorts Blast #2: Where the Buses Don’t Run
Severed (2025): Megan Duffy directed, co-wrote — with Danielle Bauman — and stars in this short as Abigail, a woman who keeps finding fingers in the streets of her town. There’s been an epidemic of missing digits, whether that’s through accident, a finger cutter or a strange disease. Her partner Mark (Ben Giroux) doesn’t even […]
GENRE BLAST X: Still Ohio (2026)
Desperate to save her long-distance relationship, college student Ana (Fernanda Lopez) transfers from Boston to Tulane to be closer to her boyfriend, Doug. Instead of picking her up himself, Doug arranges for her to carpool down south with three of his acquaintances: Henry (Michael Zapesotsky), Julia (Sofia Angelopoulos) and Johnny (Jake Melamed). As they cruise […]
GENRE BLAST X: This House Is Totally Haunted (2026)
Following up on 2024’s The Ceremony is About to Begin, Sean Nichols Lynch returns with This House is Totally Haunted, a film that doesn’t just subvert the genre’s rigid rulebook; it gleefully takes a sledgehammer to it. The premise hits the ground running when a cryptic letter from “Surviving in Shasta” lands on the lap […]
GENRE BLAST X Shorts Blast #1: Tripping the Sci-Fantastic
Here’s the first lineup of shorts I watched at Genre Blast. Wooly Bully (2025): What a rough watch. I don’t mean that in a bad way. I mean that in an “I have lived this movie” way. My dad’s descent into dementia was not easy to navigate, and as always, avoidance and denial were probably […]
GENRE BLAST X: Hollow Lake (2025)
Newlyweds Max (Anthony Dain) and Baker (Santiago Sky) find themselves trapped in a deteriorating relationship, with Max seeking validation through hookup apps and Baker entirely consumed by his work. Desperate to add a spark and explore new territory, Baker pressures Max into an illicit encounter. They decide to head to a remote property owned by […]
GENRE BLAST X: Heat Score (2025)
Heat Score, the gritty crime-comedy-thriller from co-directors Devin and Robert Burkosky, wears its greasy heart right there on its sleeve. Set deep within the gritty underworld of Edmonton, this takes place in the 1990s, a place where Vince Valcone, once the toast of the local adult entertainment scene, has fallen on hard times. He’s running […]
GENRE BLAST X: Get That Dick (2026)
Bugs (Sean Ashlet) is a burned-out Atlanta private investigator who thinks he is taking on a simple, quick-cash gig when he agrees to help a foul-mouthed kid on the run. That easy money evaporates instantly once he realizes the boy is fleeing the clutches of a dangerous, unhinged cult. What follows is a relentless, chaotic […]
GENRE BLAST X: Final Transmissions (2026)
Final Transmissions was announced as a six-episode analog horror anthology series co-created by the husband-and-wife team Steven Hugh Nelson and Erica Nelson (Old Wounds). However, it played as a film at Genre Blast X, an anthology set in the small, eerie town of Eldritch, Illinois, in 1999. There, a local cable-access TV host begins broadcasting […]
GENRE BLAST X: Debone (2025)
Director Lee Dae-han’s feature debut Debone, shot on a $ 23,000-or-less budget, is a punishing, pitch-black entry into South Korea’s rich tradition of uncompromising crime-thriller horror. The film is the tale of Gyutark (Lee Gyu-tark), a young man whose life is derailed by an initial act of primal self-preservation: killing his abusive father to protect […]
GENRE BLAST X: The Cramps: A Period Piece (2025)
Agnes Applewhite (Lauren Kitchen) is a blossoming young woman trapped in a claustrophobic home with her sanctimonious mother (Brooklyn Woods) and tightly wound sister, Liberty (Harlie Madison). Defying her family’s strict expectations, Agnes takes a job as a shampoo girl at the lively Hairbrain Beauty Salon. Surrounded by a colorful, welcoming crew of misfits—including a […]
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