Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: The Witch’s Cradle (1944)
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. “I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.“ Maya Darden may have […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Eyewash (1959)
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. Robert Breer occupies a singular space in the history of experimental animation. His work—often […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Fragment of Seeking (1946)
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. Curtis Harrington had a career trajectory that oscillated from occult underground circles to the […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Ballet Mecanique (1924)
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. A Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by Fernand Léger in collaboration […]
TRIBECA FESTIVAL 2026: I Think About Killing You (2026)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
The Virgin Sacrifice (1970)
On IMDb, the first message about this movie says, “Before Virgin, I never put much stock in the idea of a cursed production. Take a film like Incubus. Just because the director’s nephew died, the production company went belly up, and Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate attended the premiere. Those could all just be coincidences. Shit […]
Chattanooga Film Festival: Emily’s Monster (2020)
Young Emily is doing what every horror movie child inevitably does: snooping where she has no business being. Her target is the basement, a dark, dusty repository of household secrets. What she unearths down there is decidedly not a lost plaything or a dusty box of old records. It’s something much, much worse. The moment […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: W.T.F. FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 2
Dual Wielder (2026): Directed by Julia Boyd, this reveals why the initials E.E. sit atop every Time Crisis leaderboard in Los Angeles. Those high scores are from Eddie Esguerra, who has mastered the art of holding two light guns simultaneously, dodging virtual bullets, and clearing levels with surgical precision. It’s not just a movie about […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: W.T.F. FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 3
Blossom Needs a Ride Home (2025):Directed by Tim Schwagel. You know how it is. You spend your night fighting off a bloodthirsty maniac, you’re covered in gore, the adrenaline is fading, and now you have the ultimate indignity: trying to get a ride home in the middle of nowhere. I always wonder what happens in […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: DANGEROUS VISIONS: FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 2
Undertone (2025): Shaun Munro’s Undertone reminds us that the scariest things might be the ones vibrating right beneath our floorboards. The film follows a sound recordist who picks up strange audio frequencies emanating from beneath their home. What starts as a curiosity—the kind of professional obsession that usually leads to a third-act demise—quickly spirals into […]
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