Slamdance 2024 Film Festival - I have to say that I really dig the premise of the short, PU EKAW TNOD. Essentially, a couple gets sucked into a creepy basement after watching a scary movie together. The execution generally works with some truly uncanny images, too. Directed and written by Rebecca Culverhouse, the UK film [...]

A Zany Love Letter to Popcorn Cinema

Slamdance 2024 Film Festival - Writer/director Kamell Allaway's short Shadow has the black and white creep factor of an old German Expressionist film, like Nosferatu, especially for its use, of well, shadow. It's a highly atmospheric film that also reminded me somewhat of The Babadook, another film that was at least partially inspired by Expressionist films [...]

A Heist Gone Horribly Wrong

Slamdance 2024 Film Festival  - In writer/director Zoe Eisenberg's Chaperone, 29-year-old Misha (Mitzi Akaha) is tired of everyone judging her and telling her to make something of herself instead of working at an art house theater. She then dates a boy about ten years younger than her, Jake (Laird Akeo), who's still in high school. [...]