Writers and directors Brett and Jason Butler slice and dice parasocial relationships with Starsuckers. Out of FrightFest, the Influencer Horror film destroys the barriers between who celebrities are online and[...]
Out of FrightFest, writer/director Cameron Francis’ Blood Secret walks the line between paranormal and slasher with acrobatic precision. Francis sets the bloody events in a single location over the course[...]
Horror has always been queer. Since the early cinematic days of filmmaker James Whale, an openly gay man who crafted such queer classics as The Old Dark House (1932) and[...]
Domestic violence takes shape in Al Kalyk’s Cruel Hands. Visceral anguish seeps from the TV screen and soaks into the viewer’s skin. The film, co-written with Matthew Kalyk, shares a[...]
It’s difficult to make a good zombie film these days. Flesh eaters have flooded the market for decades now, and The Walking Dead made them significantly more popular again after[...]
AI Horror captures the state of our reality in ways other horror subgenres do not. With their bite-sized horror series, Autonomous, actor Erin Áine and director Kyle Valle explore a[...]
Robert Hiltzik’s 1983 camp slasher Sleepaway Camp still divides audiences. Many queer viewers find the surprise ending quite transphobic, while others read the twist in very different terms. However you[...]
We are living and breathing a slasher renaissance right now. This year alone, we have Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Pierre Tsigaridis’ Frankie, Maniac Woman, Daniel[...]
Spider One’s Big Baby makes a case for one of the year’s best slashers. For slasher fans of the classic ’80s style, the indie film perfectly captures the spirit and[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Eriko Katagiri’s When You Open the Door moves at an agonizingly glacial pace and guns for the feeling, tone, and approach of Tomas Alfredson’s Let[...]
Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn marries the folk horror of Avery Crounse’s Eyes of Fire with the newborn terror of Rosemary’s Baby and the reality-melting of Darren Aronofsky’s mother! While the film[...]
First-time director Nick Taylor brings special effects makeup artist Steve Johnson’s life and work to pulsing vitality in a brand new documentary. Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Rubberhead: The Life[...]
Out of Fantasia Film Festival, Arkar Soe Oo’s The Last Footage packs every found footage cliché into its 88-minute runtime and fails to generate any level of fear. Many filmmakers[...]
August is here, and I have just one question for you, dear reader: Why aren’t you subscribed to FoundTV yet? It is the go-to hub for all things found footage, screenlife,[...]
1990s media (film, television, etc.) portrayed New York City as a sticky, sweaty, and thrilling concrete jungle of sexual liberation and pure abandon. It makes sense, then, that filmmaker Corrin[...]
