Category: Horror in Frame
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Horror in Frame: A Conversation with George Henry Horton (Strawstalker)
Influencer Horror is all the rage these days. Especially on the indie circuit, the subgenre is easy to tap into and exploit for some good frights. And who doesn’t love to see the most insufferable people on the internet be killed? With his film, Strawstalker (review), writer/director/actor George Henry Horton goes for a deliciously silly…
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Pride 2026: A Conversation with Paul Etheredge (Hellbent)
Paul Etheredge changed the game with Hellbent, the first gay slasher. While it may have been overlooked or dismissed in the early 2000s, it has only grown in popularity over the years. Now, it's an essential foundational film for all queer horror fans. The supposedly unintentional queer-coded A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge…
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Pride 2026: A Conversation with Christopher Wesley Moore (Children of Sin)
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands isย raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and queer essays.ย Donate here. One of the great horrors of being queer is conversation therapy. With his 2022 film, Children of Sin, writer/director Christopher Wesley Moore…
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Horror in Frame: A Conversation with Daniel J. Phillips (Diabolic)
While everyone’s obsessed with Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms (for good reason!), folks are seriously sleeping on Daniel J. Phillips’ Diabolicโor at least severely underappreciating the work. In the ocean of religious horror that’s decorated the genre over the last 100+ years, Diabolic stands out as a real gem. From its suffocating dread…
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Pride 2026: A Conversation with Parker Brennon (Hauntology)
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands isย raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and queer essays.ย Donate here. We never have enough Queer Horror. With their debut feature film, writer/director Parker Brennon taps into something special with Hauntology, an anthology…
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Pride 2026: A Conversation with Alice Maio Mackay (The Serpent’s Skin)
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and queer essays. Donate here. Alice Maio Mackay has released six feature films (with a seventh in the can), and she’s only 21. As creative…
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Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with Dave Bekerman (TRAD)
If you spend any amount of time on TikTok, specifically, you’ll likely stumble across Tradwife-Tok. It’s a very real thingโwomen teaching their viewers how to be a tradwife, or teaching men how to make their wives tradwives. With his new short film, TRAD, filmmaker Dave Bekerman uses his discovery of this social media subculture as…
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Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with Ronald Short (Tasty Bones)
Scary muppets wasn’t something I really needed until I saw The Fuzzies (review) earlier this year. With his new short film, Tasty Bones, writer/director Ronald Short keeps the frightening, fuzzy frenzy going with a playfully grotesque creation amidst the shadows and terror of the woods. Over a recent Zoom call, Short discussed rich folklore about…
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Horror in Frame: A Conversation with Jake Jarvi (Haunt Season)
Three years ago, I wrote a piece for Flood detailing the Slasher Renaissance. I never expected how much the subgenre would balloon out since then. Today, slashers are all the rage! And you can count Jake Jarvi’s Haunt Season (review) as one of the standouts from the current wave of hack ‘n slash bloodfests. Over…
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Horror in Frame: A Conversation with P.J. Starks (New Fears Eve)
During the ongoing Slasher Renaissance, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of knockoffs and retreads. Eric Huskisson and P.J. Starks’ New Fears Eve feels both fresh and familiar. The directing duo taps into expectations without becoming stale or uninspired. During a recent Zoom call, Starks, who wrote the script, discusses pulling together the…
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Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with Justin Streichman & Gustine Fรผdickar (Lady Puritan)
Surrealist horror takes monstrous shape in Justin Streichman and Gustine Fรผdickar’s Lady Puritan. It’s a film that injects a David Lynch sensibility directly into the veins. And that’s no easy feat. When images itch and swirl in your eyeballs, the short doesn’t let up. In a recent Zoom conversation, Streichman and Fรผdickar discuss their cinematic…
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Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with Steve Flavin (Wrathbone)
Horror has a serious horror/musical problem. Where are all the horror musicals?!? In a genre that has such foundational films as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Little Shop of Horrors, the genre sure does avoid comingling with musicals. Writer/director Steve Flavin agrees. Behind Wrathbone, in which Flavin also plays two characters, one of them…
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Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with Matt Webb (The Recluse)
The great thing about horror is that it’s every genre fused into one. There’s horror/comedy, horror/action, horror/thriller, etc. As with Matt Webb’s The Recluse, it perfectly teeters around the edges of horror/thriller, borrowing elements from both to make an impactful, character-driven story. In a recent Zoom call, the writer/director discusses existential dread, his draw to…
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Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with M-Alain Bertoni (Closing Shift)
Work in retail for any amount of time, and you’ll know what dealing with a Karen means. In his new short, Closing Shift, writer/director M-Alain Bertoni takes things to extremes when a family of Karens terrorizes a movie theater. Bertoni hopped on a recent Zoom call to discuss the impetus behind the film, the state…
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Panic Fest 2026: A Conversation with Casey de Fremery (My Severed Arm)
In a post-Scream world, a slasher must completely upend expectations to break through the noise. There’s just no other way around it. Well, unless you’re Terrifier, which is more splatter flick than slasher. With his short film My Severed Arm, writer/director Casey de Fremery knows exactly how to toy with genre conventions and pull no…
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