If I have ever learned anything from found footage it's never to go on an excursion with friends. It never goes well. Like, at least don't film it. Maybe that's the key. Yeah, DO NOT FILM YOUR VACATION! That's just courting disaster. I gotta be honest with you...I can't quite tell you what THE OUTWATERS… Continue reading THE OUTWATERS – found footage review
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Anticipation
As a kid, I remember waiting with bated breath for fall. I was no fan of school, that’s to be sure, but I was desperate for the start of the fall cartoons and for the fall television slate. You see, in the ‘80s the fall season was when the new cartoons would debut as well… Continue reading Anticipation
The Bottomless Dark – 8MM and HARDCORE movie reviews
Some of the fun of being a movie fan is making your own pairings that make sense for thematic reasons, or the same actors are in them, or same director, or whatever else you can think works. For me, I paired the films 8MM and HARDCORE and am shocked at how well they work together… Continue reading The Bottomless Dark – 8MM and HARDCORE movie reviews
Broken Systems
When I first started doing ‘zines with friends we were all about the DIY ethos. We were just kids, teenagers, and we didn’t have any money to put into anything, to be honest, so we cut pictures out of old magazines, printed things off of computer printers, and made copies at copy centers or on… Continue reading Broken Systems
THE FLASH – film review (ahhAHHH!)
There is something that feels…ghoulish in watching the last handful of DC movies because they are, for lack of a better term, dead films walking. They are holdovers for a previous regime and, good, bad, or mediocre, the odds are slight that they’ll have any impact on what is to come save for souring moviegoers… Continue reading THE FLASH – film review (ahhAHHH!)
Ladders to Heaven
Sometimes I wonder if we’re trying to heave ladders toward heaven with how anxious we are to pore over the art of the past to find its flaws. We are desperate to show how wise and cultured and enlightened we are and just as anxious to post about it so everyone can know about it… Continue reading Ladders to Heaven
John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS – review
Latter day Carpenter is hard to get your head around. He's one of many modern day filmmaking geniuses that lost favor in Hollywood and after a point his films show that. He and Romero had similar careers in that neithe stopped being good directors, they just lost the funding and support of a system that… Continue reading John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS – review
THE MIRROR – found footage review
You know me by now. I love found footage. It’s a fascinating subgenre that embraces everything from big budget studio fare to movies made by friends on a weekend. It’s a type of movie that allows you to make the scariest movies seen if you have the right idea and the passion. That’s pretty cool. … Continue reading THE MIRROR – found footage review
If It’s Broke
It’s inevitable that anything popular is going to become a target of derision. Especially when it comes to a film series that is over ten years old and boasts over twenty films. The ambition of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is only second to its hubris and the feeling that they could do no wrong. Of… Continue reading If It’s Broke
DEPRIVATION – found footage review
It’s fascinating to note trends in something like found footage, which tend to be so connected to the moment that they give a view of what the culture is like at that moment. Sure, it’s not 1:1 but it’s a good representation of where the culture is at. Most modern found footage is centered on… Continue reading DEPRIVATION – found footage review
Random Acts of Cruelty
There is an unshakable feeling of horror to where American capitalism is heading. A sense we have conjured something we cannot control. A sense that on our collective tombstone, it shall read only Hubris. We have been voyeuristically watching one another live our lives and yearning for wealth thinking there is no baggage involved. I… Continue reading Random Acts of Cruelty
The Spooky Chris Podcast – Indie Movie Film School
In which I welcome author and filmmaker Paul Counelis in to talk about movies, the Writer's Guild strike, streaming, and using indie movies as your film school.
PARANORMAL FARM – found footage review
Man, talk about a tease! This film gives you visions of possessed pork, hellish horsies, demonic donkeys, and maybe even malevolent moo cows and all we got were clowns(!) of all things. This was made in 2017, and since that's pre-Covid I can't recall if that was during Clownageddeon or not, I think it was,… Continue reading PARANORMAL FARM – found footage review
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 