by Stephanie Crawford | Nov 8, 2021 | Reviews
WARPED AND FADED: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of The American Genre Film Archive By Lars Nilsen and friends Edited by Kier-La Janisse $35 // Mondo Books // Order Here “Enjoy your porn, hipsters!” Part oral history, part weird movie compendium, and part film essay...
by Stephanie Crawford | Apr 13, 2021 | Reviews
I “attended” my very first Panic Fest via their virtual screenings this year, and I was incredibly impressed by the wide variety of films on offer, both feature-length and short. I’ll be doing a collection of reviews from the fest right here, so be...
by Stephanie Crawford | Mar 18, 2021 | Articles, Reviews
JAKOB’S WIFE TRAVIS STEVENS Pastor Jakob Fedder’s wife does have a name. Unfortunately, Anne (Barabara Crampton) suffers from Perfect Wife Syndrome. She’s a supportive force at her husband’s (Larry Fessenden) church, she works out every morning, and she makes...
by Stephanie Crawford | Mar 17, 2021 | Articles, Reviews
“BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION” Dir. JACOB GENTRY James (Harry Shum Jr.) has a tedious job of cataloging old broadcast tapes as a video archivist, often of local news stations. One night, strange and disturbing footage of someone wearing a wig and rubber mask...
by Stephanie Crawford | Mar 17, 2021 | Articles, Reviews
“WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR” KIER-LA JANISSE SEVERIN FILMS Directed, written, and produced by film scholar Kier-La Janisse (founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and author of a stack of essential film...