CFF 2022: The Third Saturday in October Films Are the Slasher Spoofs You Didn’t Know You Needed

Horror Obsessive
by Sean Parker

I had been extremely excited for Chattanooga Film Festival’s double feature Saturday for The Third Saturday in October Part V and Part I since the festival announced it. Writer-director Jay Burleson’s slasher throwbacks span fifteen years and skip three imaginary sequels, offering a bloody homage to the classics we grew up with and the hundreds of sequels that could never live up to their predecessors. The event kicked off with The Third Saturday in October Part V, followed by Part I, making for a head-scratching arrangement, but Chattanooga Film Festival assured its audience, “This is the way you want to see them.”

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