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Chattanooga Film Festival 2022 Review: THE OUTWATERS Immerses You in a Blood-Soaked Nightmare
The Outwaters premiered at this year’s virtual Chattanooga Film Festival and does a great job of making the viewer feel like a part of the terror onscreen, setting up a believable story, and utilizing outstanding practical effects.
[Chattanooga Film Festival Review] LANDLOCKED
Film theorist Walter Benjamin put a lot of importance on the use of video recorders because the machine could reveal hidden moments or aspects of everyday life.
[Chattanooga Film Festival Review] PHANTOM PROJECT
PHANTOM PROJECT holds a bit of appeal in its cuteness, but the story, character development, and even the ghost fail to reach a more transcendent level.
Interface REVIEW | Chattanooga Film Festival 2022
Interface, the “feature” debut from Canadian artist Justin Tomchuck (aka u m a m i), brings together the entirety of the animated web series of the same name into a single cinematic adventure.
[CFF 2022] MIKE MIGNOLA: DRAWING MONSTERS Review - A Portrait of One of Comics' Greatest Creatives
Brant Lewis calls Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters an engaging and fascinating documentary that will appeal to everyone.
[CFF 2022] THE ATTACHMENT DIARIES Review - A Haunting and Disturbing Web of Patriarchal Complexities
Breanna Lucci says The Attachment Diaries has themes that mirage today’s society, giving us a hazy glimpse into what could be our future.
[CFF ’22] ‘Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters (The Secret Origin of Hellboy)’ review
Keeping the machine going.
[CFF 22 Review] ‘Giving Birth to a Butterfly’ finds solidarity in uncomfortable places
In Theodore Schaefer’s Giving Birth to a Butterfly, freedom of choice is unattainable within the confines of a nuclear American family.
‘WULVER’S STANE’ IS A CHALLENGING AND VISCERAL WATCH [CFF 2022]
There is one way I could start this review that would likely be enough information for many readers: If you are the type of person who enjoys ASMR eating videos, get stoked for Wulver’s Stane!
Chattanooga Film Festival 2022: Ghosts of the Past Haunt Atmospheric Gateway
Sometimes the thing that haunts us the most lie in the regrets of our past, and that’s the sentiment that Niall Owens brings to life in his first feature-length film, Gateway.
‘The Third Saturday in October’ Review – Slasher Homage Experiments With Nostalgia
Writer/Director Jay Burleson melds them together in a retro-styled slasher parody meant to be viewed after its follow-up, The Third Saturday in October Part V.
‘THE ONES YOU DIDN’T BURN’ ILLUMINATES THE POWER OF ANCESTRAL RESENTMENT [CFF 2022]
It probably didn’t take much foresight on her part, but Elise Finnerty’s feature debut embodies a common double-edged sword for the horror genre: It’s “timely.”
Arrow Films Takes Eric Pennycoff’s Festive Horror ‘The Leech’ For Holiday Release in the UK, Ireland and North America
Arrow Films has acquired distribution rights in the UK, Ireland, US, and Canada for Eric Pennycoff’s Christmas horror-comedy The Leech, set to have its world premiere at Chattanooga Film Festival.
[CFF 22 Review] Cryo: a unique premise with the potential for more
Cryo is the directorial debut of Barrett Burgin, written by Barrett Burgin and Mason D. Davis that sets up a unique premise of a science fiction horror.
Chattanooga Film Festival: Three Ways to Dine Well (2022)
Three Ways to Dine Well is the kind of horror documentary we need more of.
Chattanooga Film Festival: Voyeur(s) (2021)
Voyeur (s) is the story of a man who turns his hotel into a laboratory for his own twisted fantasies, watching others play out what once existed only in his mind.
[CFF 22 Review] ‘The History of Metal and Horror’ boasts a vulgar display of cameos
Filmmaker Mike Schiff kicks off The History of Metal and Horror with a wraparound story set in a nightmare world.
[CFF 22 Review] The Ones You Didn’t Burn: An Act of Beautiful Revenge
Finnerty, also the writer, tells us a haunted story about an act of beautiful revenge while exploring the themes of generational trauma, grief, and sexuality.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2022: Disquieting Depression Fills The Unsettling
Warping the sounds of those creeks in unfamiliar houses into oppressive claustrophobia and cause for anxiety is apt for a movie that does exactly that.
Chattanooga Film Festival: Vierailijat (2021)
Directed and written by Kenichi Ugana, Visitors is filled with small moments of fright and huge moments of gore. Yes, a chainsaw gets involved. Yes, it invokes Evil Dead. Yes, it’s pretty great.