OVERLOOK 2024

Overlook Film Festival 2024 - Ever since The Walking Dead and more recently, The Last of Us, the wave of apocalyptic films and TV shows feels endless. Some are certainly better than others. Arcadian is a wickedly cool creature feature that, though, a bit short on the world-building, excels at offering plenty of tension and [...]

Overlook 2023 Film Festival - In Gnaw, Cote (Luvia Petersen) has a pesky hangnail that just won't go away. The obsession turns deadly in a short that arrives at quite a gruesome ending. Directed by Rosalee Yagihara and written by Meg Turner, the short opens as Cote lays in bed with her lover, played by [...]

Overlook 2023 Film Festival - New Zealand filmmaker/investigative journalist David Farrier made a name for himself by covering all things weird. He hosted Dark Tourist on Netflix about strange and unusual places.  Meanwhile, his 2016 documentary, Tickled, focused on a mysterious online tickling competition. His latest documentary, Mister Organ, centers on a soul-sucking fellow by [...]

Overlook 2023 Film Festival - Monolith does so much with so little. It's a single-location work featuring one on-screen actress who carries the film through a riveting and unsettling performance. Despite how scaled down this feature is, there are some truly tense and eerie moments here that make stellar use of the limited cast and [...]

Overlook 2023 Film Festival - Almost immediately after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court last summer, 17 female directors came together and created an anthology called Give Me an A. Like any anthology, some of the work will hit deeper for the audience than others, but what's impressive is how varied [...]

Overlook 2023 Film Festival - David Worthen Brooks, founder and head of 20th Digital Studio, spoke to us about one of the two films he’s presenting at the festival, Clock. The Hulu original, written and directed by Alexis Jacknow and based on her short, is a woman’s nightmare. It stars Dianna Agron as Ella Patel, a [...]