GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: SHORTS BLAST #1 // FOUNDERS FEAST
A selection of darkly humorous genre shorts that match Chad & Nate’s sensibilities perfectly. In Old Ranchos (2025): Directed by Matthew Lucas, who co-wrote the story with Patrick Flynn, this is the story of an old west lawman (Krymis J. Fernando) on the run who meets a seductive siren (Natalia Berger) who offers him a chance to […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Inter-State (2025)
In this film by Sam Gorman, an idealistic scientist named Bentley McCrissus (Aubrey Clyburn) gets recruited by a tech startup. They claim to be close to creating the world’s first teleportation device. If we’ve learned anything from movie about this, it’s that things that can go from point A to point B through some other […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: House of Ashes (2024)
Meat Friend, a short that director and co-writer (with Steve Johanson) Izzy Lee made, is one of the best short films I’ve seen, so I was excited about this feature. Mia (Fayna Sanchez) has lost her husband and her baby, which has led to her being jailed in her home, as she lives in a […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Tonight and Maybe Tomorrow (2025)
Directed and written by Michael Smallwood — who also shows up in the beginning of the story as the host; he was Marcus the doctor in the recent Halloween films, the same name he uses in the film — this is about a party at the end of the world. Within this strange time, Addison (Shivam Patel) […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: First Drafts: The Outcasts (2025)
What if you rediscovered the script you wrote when you were 12? And what if you performed it with real actors, without changing a word? In Michelle Iannantuono’s First Drafts: The Outcasts, actors including Iannantuono, Maddox-Julien Slide, Evan Michael Pearce, Gregory Howard Jr., LG Wylie, JJ Schaeffer, Anna Lin and Michael James Daly do exactly […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Sugar Rot (2025)
Candy (Chloe Macleod) used to be a good girl until the ice cream man delivered to her work and violently took her into the back room, injecting her with something this film never explains, an illness that makes her so sweet that her body becomes cake that everyone wants to devour. How strange that the […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Burnt Flowers (2024)
Directed and written by Michael Fausti, this film takes place in 1968, 1983, and 1992, starting with Alice Kyteller (Ayvianna Snow) in 1992, telling the police that her husband, Austin (Adrian Viviani), has gone missing. The problem? When Detective Franc Alban (Amber Doig-Thorne) asks when she last saw him, the answer is eight years ago. […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: The Man With the Black Umbrella (2025)
“On January 8th, 2015, a man with a black umbrella broke into 818 Hilltop Drive at 3:38a.m., committing a double murder. The investigation that ensued proved that some murders shouldn’t be solved.” Directed and written by Ricky Umberger (Project Eerie), this found footage film concerns a man being haunted by, well, precisely what the title […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Gush (2025)
Sally Harkley (Ellie Church) has recently lost a baby after a car accident and is at a career crossroads, having written two of three books in a planned trilogy. Her publisher wants to send her away to a cabin in the woods to get away from it all, but between her mental state and ruined […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL: Marginalia (2025)
Directed and written by Mark Beal, Marginalia is about Sister Trista, who comes to Karnstein Abbey to help her fellow nuns mourn the recently departed abbess. As often happens in movies like this, the sisters all end up being devil worshippers, and Trista must stop them from their sinister ways. There are also killer rabbits — […]
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