GENRE BLAST X: The Barn Part III (2026)
Remember when Sam and Josh battled The Boogeyman, Hollow Jack and The Candy Corn Scarecrow? Or when Michelle and Charlie also got messed up in the battle against the forces of Hell? That was thirty years ago, and everyone has either walked away or forgotten what happened, except for Josh — now Pastor Josh (Courtney […]
GENRE BLAST X: Sunshine Girls (2026)
Directed by Madeleine Hicks, this is the story of Elaine (Clara Vance). She’s teetering on the edge of thirty, living in a world that’s suffocating under the weight of total environmental collapse. More than right now, that is. Oxygen is a luxury, and humanity is dying. The government solution is a medical procedure that repurposes […]
GENRE BLAST X: Angel Lust (2026)
Directed and written by Michael Fausti, Angel Lust plunges headfirst into a dark, romantic labyrinth where history, mortality and unyielding passion collide. The film opens in the cold shadows of 1782, where Ophelia Danube (Roe Haven) suffers execution for the ultimate crime of defying the rigid moral codes of her society. But death is far […]
GENRE BLAST X: Demonetize (2026)
Influencer culture is the new slash-and-burn territory for horror, providing many victims in movies today. It’s the perfect target—vain, desperate, and begging to be offed. Alexander Boyd Watson’s Demonetize takes that premise and runs it through a meat grinder. A washed-up paranormal investigator, Martin (Sean Carrigan), is desperate to reclaim his glory days. He figures […]
GENRE BLAST IS BACK!
GenreBlast Film Fest has announced its lineup for the tenth year of its international independent genre film festival. The four-day in-person event will showcase fourteen feature films and seventy-five short films from around the world, as well as the results of its annual screenplay competition. Emanating from the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Winchester, Virginia, GenreBlast continues […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: SHORTS BLAST #6 // THE GB ALL-STAR GAME – 2025 EDITION
A killer assortment of short films created by returning filmmakers. The Blue-Eyed Boy & Mister Death (2024): The description for this says, “Losing a loved one is never easy. Losing a parent can be even harder. Will Cummings had a hole in his heart shaped like his Dad that he tried to fill after the Cancer took […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: SHORTS BLAST #5 // WAKE UP & BLAST!
An insane and eclectic collection of animation, comedy, music, and whatever else to wake your ass up. Pile – Born at Night (2025): Directed and written by Joshua Echavarria, this is a video for the song by the Boston band Pile. Stereobar describes their music as a “philosophical exploration of existential nihilism, wrestling with the […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: SHORTS BLAST #4 / BINGE & CRINGE: RETURN OF THE FRIDAY NIGHT FREAK SHOW
There are no trigger warnings and there are no safe spaces within this collection of WTF shorts. Sugar Tits (2025): Director Heath Benfield has created something, well, crazy. A teeth-obsessed killer kidnaps a new victim to complete his deranged masterpiece, Sugar Tits, a doll with real human parts and teeth. This movie has seen some […]
GENREBLAST FILM FEST: SHORTS BLAST #3 // THE KOLESNIK METHOD
This series of shorts is curated by acclaimed author and filmmaker Samantha Kolesnik, featuring LGBTQ+ and documentary genre shorts. The Shaver Mystery (2024): This is an examination of the strangest and most controversial episode of sci-fi history: The allegedly “true stories” of writer Richard Shaver’s encounters with evil underground aliens; stories that are collectively known […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: SHORTS BLAST #2 // RETURN OF THE SCI-FANTASTIC
The best sci-fi and fantasy shorts GenreBlast has to offer. The Man That I Wave At (2025): Directed and written by Bob Hylan, this hit on something that I think about all the time. Sam Pamphilon keeps wondering why a neighbor, Marek Larwood, waves at him. They don’t know one another. How has he become so […]
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