Book Review: Tobe Hooper’s Midnight Movie Three Rivers Press Release Date: July 12, 2011 Review by Marc Patterson What better way to spend a five-hour return flight from Las Vegas than to dive into a good novel? Since I had just such a flight in front of me last week, I packed along an uncorrected [...]

by Marc Patterson Good news for fans of foreign horror – and all those who enjoy a nice bit of nail-biting gore. MPI Media Group acquired all North American rights to Cold Sweat, the latest South American horror film from Adrián García Bogliano. If you’re not familiar with Bogliano then I would encourage you to [...]

by Marc Patterson It was March of 2010 that we first got a glimpse of Tucker And Dale vs. Evil when it premiered at the SXSW film festival. If you ask me that’s a damn long time (too long) to have to wait for a film that our own Britt Hayes called “a perfect horror [...]

by Marc Patterson Typically you’d see us offer a straight up review of this DVD. Thing is – we’ve talked about Red, White & Blue for over a year. We caught it at SXSW back in 2010 and provided a detailed review then. It made our “best-of” lists during our end of year wrap-up. We [...]

by Marc Patterson Very cool news coming at us from IFC. Looks like the phenomenal Simon Rumley flick Red, White & Blue will finally be getting a long awaited release date of May 17, 2011. You can read our review from the 2010 SXSW film festival (yes, it was really that long ago), but trust [...]

by Britt Hayes It seems like every year it’s become tradition to lament what a terrible year it’s been for film. I hear this a lot from general audiences and the easy answer is: Watch more movies. But I also hear this from other critics, and my answer is the same: Watch more movies. I [...]

by Britt Hayes Earlier this year I caught a little film from the UK at SXSW called Monsters. Directed by Gareth Edwards and shot for next to nothing (Edwards himself isn’t even sure how much the film cost), with all of the effects done by Edwards on his own computer. During the Q&A after the [...]

Amer (2009) SXSW 2010 Directed By: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Starring: Cassandra Forêt, Bianca Maria D’Amato Review By: Kayley Viteo First, I’d like to preface this review by noting that I don’t really consider Amer to be a horror film, but more of an erotic thriller/art film. However, what you go into this movie [...]

SXSW 2010: Monsters Directed by: Gareth Edwards Starring: Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy Review by: Britt Hayes Six years ago, aliens invaded Mexico and they haven’t left. In fact, they’ve been multiplying. Every year they migrate, and during this time, it is unsafe to travel within the infected zone. Andrew Kaulder (McNairy) is a photo-journalist on [...]

Suck (2009) SXSW 2010 Directed by: Rob Stefaniuk Starring: Jessica Pare, Rob Stefaniuk, Mike Lobel, Paul Anthony, Malcolm McDowell, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Dave Foley, and Chris Ratz. Review by: Britt Hayes The Winners are a rock band made up of friends Joey, Sam, Tyler, and Jennifer, and managed by douche bag Jeff (Dave Foley). [...]

Centurion (2010) SXSW 2010 Directed by: Neil Marshall Starring: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Imogen Poots, Olga Kurylenko, David Morrissey Review by: Britt Hayes The general of the 9th legion of Roman soldiers, Virilus (West), has been given orders to take his men into Pict territory in what is now Scotland, and finally bring an end [...]

SXSW 2010 Directed by: Sean Byrne Starring: Xavier Samuel, Richard Wilson, Jessica McNamee, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton, Victoria Thaine Review by: Britt Hayes Brent Mitchell is having a bad year. He accidentally drove his car into a tree, killing his father. He’s been flirting with death (and bringing his dog along for the ride! What [...]

Red White & Blue (2010) SXSW 2010 Directed by: Simon Rumley Starring: Amanda Fuller, Noah Taylor, Marc Senter Review by: Britt Hayes Erica has some issues. Every night she heads out into the city of Austin and finds a different man to have sex with, often unprotected. She rents a room in a house and [...]

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2009) SXSW 2010 Directed by: Eli Craig Starring: Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss Review by: Britt Hayes Tucker and Dale are two redneck friends with a dream to own their very own vacation house in the woods by the lake. They sink their life savings into a [...]

Wake (2010) SXSW 2010 Directed by: Chad Feehan Starring: Josh Stewart, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Chris Browning, Angela Featherstone Studio: The Fort Review by: Britt Hayes Paul (Stewart) and Adrienne (Sigler) are on a road trip to Los Angeles for an old fraternity brother’s wedding when Adrienne decides to get a little frisky in the car. While [...]

Serbian Film (Srpski Film) (2009) SXSW 2010 Directed by: Srdjan Spasojevic Written by: Aleksandar Radivojevic Studio: Contra Film Review by: Britt Hayes I’m going to be honest here: before SXSW, I hadn’t watched a trailer for any of the films playing. Part of me wanted to avoid having any expectations going in and be genuinely [...]

by Marc Patterson and Britt Hayes While catching up with Britt on what’s going down in Austin TX at this years SXSW, sorting out schedules, getting the inside scoop on the hottest new horror flicks, and generally doing all the chit chatty stuff Britt and I do it occurred to me… we should be recording [...]