STAND BY FOR TAPE BACK-UP is a little different than Film Thrills’s typical genre fare, but it is positively wonderful. Playing both Fantastic Fest and the Boston Underground Film Festival as a video and live performance it has been one of the most buzzed about cinematic experiences I’ve...
For their third feature film, Boston based (for now at least) husband & wife directing team Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola turned to the erotic vampire films of Jean Rollin and Hammer studios for inspiration. In doing so the pair looked to put a new thematic spin...
Almost a week after catching its New England Premiere, I find myself struggling to put down the right words to describe Ricky Bates Jr’s third film. While it was the standout among a number or worthy contenders at last weekend’s Boston Underground Film Festival, taking home the best...
Pregnancy is weird. Outside of my cat obsession, I consider myself an entirely non-maternal woman, so the thought of having another parasitic organism living inside of me for a full 40 week freaks me out. But beyond my own hang-ups, horror has a strong tradition of using pregnancy...
For 18 years the Boston Underground Film Festival has delivered a cornucopia of mind blowing cinema to fans from all over New England. The fest scours the globe for the most gonzo titles across all genres: horror, science fiction, dark dramas, marital arts, doomed romance and more. This...
Over the course of a career that spans three decades Frank Henelotter has made his bones in the exploitation subgenre of horror films. With a cannon of films including Basket Case, Frankenhooker, and Bad Biology, Henenlotter has always found tongue in cheek ways to gross out and offend...
Set in 1997 London, during the height of the “cool Brittanica” music craze when bands like Oasis and the Spice Girls ruled the airwaves, Kill Your Friends cribs heavily from the American Psycho playbook Nicholas Hoult plays Steven, an up and coming A&R rep for a major label...
This will be no surprise to readers who know my taste in film, but I like it weird. I like violence intersecting art. I like burlesque mashing-up with David Bowie. And now, thanks to the opening film of the Boston Underground Film Festival, I now know that I...
It’s an amazing and wonderful thing to watch your filmmaking friends continue to grow with each new work. Longtime friend (and sometimes site contributor) Andrea Wolanin has followed up her scifi domestic horror Penta with the chilling home invasion short Cleaning House. For her third short film, Wolanin refines...
One of the more difficult lines to straddle when creating a farcical work is balancing treating the characters and their predicament with enough seriousness while still letting the audience in on the fact that you get the underlying silliness of it all. That’s an especially difficult burden to...
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