Horror
Sunday Update: Independent Film Festival Boston 2013
By Norm Schrager at April 28, 2013 | 8:57 am | 0 Comment
Day 4 of the 2013 IFFB featured a faithful Joss Whedon audience fawning over every frame of the director's version of Much Ado About Nothing (with critics' opinions' wildly across the board), Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick celebrating the world premiere of Best Kept Secret as part of autism awareness, and indie horror fans keeping the midnight chill away at the more...
Documentaries , Featured , Horror , Independent Film , Movie Previews
Saturday Update: Independent Film Festival Boston 2013
By Norm Schrager at April 27, 2013 | 8:35 am | 0 Comment
If you've read my list of the 12 "movies to watch" at this year's 11th Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFB), you may have already made your choices and are ready to hit the festival. But if you're still considering your Saturday choices, here's a helpful list of further recommendations, as well as those movies already near sellout. Hurry up! Midday: I suggest more...
Animation , Awards , Documentaries , Drama , Featured , Horror , Independent Film , Movie Previews
New Movie Poster and Preview: Zack Parker’s PROXY
By Norm Schrager at March 3, 2013 | 3:30 pm | 0 Comment
One of the great indie cinema finds in 2011 was Zack Parker's timeline-skipping drama, Scalene, a cool little shocker that carefully dissects a storyline shared by three connected characters. The film earned its critical attention, and boasted an impressively tricky performance by long-time character actress Margo Martindale. (Read my review of Scalene here.) Now, Parker more...
Featured , Horror , Independent Film , Movie Posters , Movie Previews
This Is Your Brain on Drugs: JOHN DIES AT THE END Film Review
By Norm Schrager at February 22, 2013 | 6:53 am | 2 Comments
4 / 5 stars If you like your horror-comedies with drug-induced delusion, disjointed humor (and disjointed body parts), and villains made of reconstituted frozen meat, then John Dies at the End is your cult movie of the year. Writer-director Don Coscarelli (Bubba Ho-Tep, Phantasm) doesn’t just let his freak flag fly; he lights it on fire, pees on it, and beats it with more...
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