Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: W.T.F. FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 1
Spanked by a Ghost (2025): Directed by Katelyn Douglass, this follows a lonely protagonist who finds herself living in a house that isn’t just haunted. It’s handsy. But she doesn’t run for the hills. Instead, she becomes obsessed. So what starts off as a standard ghost story becomes an exploration of repressed, supernatural desire. As […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: CFF SALUTES YOUR SHORTS: FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 2
The Second Coming (2025): A young couple is trying to navigate the normal stressors of life. They are looking to cement their future, but that future gets derailed when a divine entity descends. This isn’t your standard angel-on-the-shoulder visit. This entity is cold, intrusive, and treats the couple’slife like a lab experiment. As the entity […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: DANGEROUS VISIONS: FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 1
Amira (2025): Directed by Javier Yañez, Amira is set in a music conservatory where daylight seems forgotten. Amira is a violin student struggling to survive in a place of perpetual shadow. The pressure is immense: students are competing for a coveted spot to perform for the school’s mysterious Governor and the public, a performance that promises […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: CFF SALUTES YOUR SHORTS: FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 1
That Damned Thing (2026): This short by Christopher Lewis is exactly the kind of grim discovery that’ll keep you up. It’s a lean, mean creature-feature procedural that doesn’t bother with grand explanations, focusing instead on the cold, hard reality of an autopsy gone wrong. Set in a coroner’s inquest, what begins as a routine examination […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: W.T.F. (WATCH THESE FILMS)
CHÄIR (2025): Directed by Chris McInroy, just from the title, you know that you’re in the world of IKEA. Carl is an exhausted, everyday guy just looking for a little bit of comfort. He finds it—or thinks he does—in a seemingly innocent high-end chair that appears out of nowhere. However, this isn’t your standard piece […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: Dangerous Visions
Season’s Greetings (1996): Before Michael Dougherty became the modern architect of the holiday horror anthology with Trick ‘r Treat, he gave us the short film that started it all: Season’s Greetings. This isn’t just a student film; it is the genesis of Sam, the pint-sized, pumpkin-headed embodiment of Halloween itself. Set on a dark, wind-swept […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026 Red Eye #5: Horror Brunch (1987), Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader (1999), Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job (2001) and Dementia (1955)
Horror Brunch (1987): This short film, directed by Rik Carter, is a high-energy, blood-soaked love letter to horror cinema. A group gathers for an ordinary brunch, but the meal is interrupted when the food and utensils turn murderous. The narrative escalates into a chaotic showcase of practical gore and genre moments featuring cameos from Norman Bates, […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: Salute Your Shorts
Carousel (2025): Directed by Christopher Kosakowski, Carousel takes the classic cursed object story and gives it a grim, carnival-noir coat of paint. It’s the kind of lean, mean and twisted storytelling that hits all the right buttons for those of us who prefer our horror served with a side of greasepaint and existential dread. The […]
KO-FI SUPPORTER: Marijuana Man (1968)
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JUNESPLOITATION: Biohazard 2 (1998)
DAY 15. George Romero! As a yinzer, I have seen every Romero movie many, many times. So other than his OJ Simpson documentary and Iron City Asskickers, I had no idea what to do. Do I go to the George A. Romero Archival Collection at Pitt and write about one of his unproduced scripts like Black […]
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