Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Evil Heart (1985)
Week 12 (Sept 6 – 12) – Japanese V- Cinema: V-Cinema is shorthand for the Japanese direct-to-video wave of the 90s and 00s. These movies were often produced by major studios on very low budgets, but they allowed the filmmakers a great deal of creative freedom as long as they could deliver the “exploitable elements.” This proved […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Humanoid Puppet (1992)
Week 12 (Sept 6 – 12) – Japanese V- Cinema: V-Cinema is shorthand for the Japanese direct-to-video wave of the 90s and 00s. These movies were often produced by major studios on very low budgets, but they gave filmmakers huge creative freedom as long as they could deliver the “exploitable elements.” This proved to be a great […]
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 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 […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Beneath the Skin (1981)
The first film by Cecilia Condit, Beneath the Skin, is based on a real-life incident in the artist’s life. At one point, she dated Ira Einhorn, also known as the Unicorn Killer after he murdered his ex-girlfriend, Holly Maddux, and hid her corpse. Condit was taking medication that deadened her sense of smell, so she […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Possibly In Michigan (1983)
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there, it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Submit To Me (1986)
Week 9 (Aug 16 – 22) – Cinema of Transgression: “none shall emerge unscathed” -Nick Zedd A BDSM video made for parties and edited down to ten minutes, this hits you with a dangerous-looking Lydia Lunch, tops that with Lung Leg holding a knife and a Butthole Surfers soundtrack. Women wrestle in pools of gore. Guys shaving themselves. […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: You Killed Me First (1985)
Week 9 (Aug 16 – 22) – Cinema of Transgression: “none shall emerge unscathed” -Nick Zedd Lung Leg was born Elisabeth Carr, and for so much of the art I consumed in the mid-80s, she seemed like a poster girl. She’s right there, screaming on the cover of Sonic Youth’s EVOL, all over Richard Kern’s books and movies. […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Goodbye 42nd Street (1983)
Week 9 (Aug 16 – 22) – Cinema of Transgression: “none shall emerge unscathed” -Nick Zedd Acting as an unflinching, guerrilla-style love letter and farewell card to Manhattan’s most infamous thoroughfare, Richard Kern’s short film plunges headfirst into the chaotic, neon-drenched underbelly of early-1980s Times Square. The picture captures a relentless, documentarian drift down 42nd Street, interspersing raw […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Flaming Creatures (1963)
Week 4 (July 12 – 18) – Roots of the Underground: Film-makers’ Coop The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is a non-profit dedicated to experimental and avant-garde cinema; almost all of the most well-known American experimental filmmakers have had works in their catalogue at some point. Flaming Creatures is largely non-narrative, transgressive joy. Smith, a visionary working with a shoestring […]
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