January 25, 2023
Brian Fanelli
Sundance 2023 Film Festival - Writer/director Valeria Hofmann's AliEN0089 isn't your typical thriller. It critiques sexism in gamer culture, while combining elements of Giallo, found footage, and nightmarish animation sequences. It's an effective, engrossing, and haunting short. Mariana Di Girólamo stars as Sabina, a gamer who faces harassment whenever she logs into a first-person shooter-type [...]
January 25, 2023
Brian Fanelli
Sundance 2023 Film Festival - Michael Ironside has a history of playing villains in film. In writer/director Andrew Fitzgerald's short, The Family Circus, he plays an imposing cop that threatens to unravel a family attempting to cover up a son's drunk driving incident. The film is a tense family drama set against the backdrop of [...]
January 23, 2022
Brian Fanelli
Sundance 2022 Film Festival - It's best to go into writer/director Aria Covamonas' wildly experimental Socrates' Adventures in the Under Ground with no clear expectations. This is not a short that pays any mind to typical narrative conventions. Instead of trying to follow a straight storyline, it's best to simply enjoy the ride, in all [...]
January 22, 2022
Brian Fanelli
Sundance 2022 Film Festival - Carter Smith's Bugcrush is a good example of using restraint in a horror film. There's not a single drop of blood spilled in all 35 minutes. And yet, this is a frightening and uncomfortable film. This short has a way of luring you in and building to rather jarring implied [...]
January 21, 2022
Brian Fanelli
Sundance 2022 Film Festival - Writer/director Wen-Ming Hsieh's Night Bus is a 19-minute trip with a whole lot of bloody twists and turns. The animation impresses, but so does the unpredictability of this film. This is part noir and part splatter. The shifts in tone and genre-bending make for one unforgettable ridge. When passengers board [...]
January 21, 2022
Brian Fanelli
Sundance 2022 Film Festival - Something's growing inside a young fashion designer (Rachel Sennott) that's either an actual creature or a manifestation of her anxiety and self-doubt. No matter, Appendage, written/directed by Anna Zlokovic, is an entertaining six minutes. It's an inventive creature feature with a perfect bit of body horror. Sennott's performance here is [...]
THE BLEACHER – Sundance 2024
DREAM CREEP – Sundance 2024
ALIEN0089 – SUNDANCE
THE FAMILY CIRCUS–A Tense Family Affair–SUNDANCE
SOCRATES’ ADVENTURES IN THE UNDER GROUND–One Surreal & Absurd Short–Sundance 2022
BUGCRUSH–A Creepy, Crawly Affair–Sundance 2022
NIGHT BUS–A Bloody Good Ride–Sundance 2022
APPENDAGE–A Fun Bit Of Body Horror–Sundance 2022
THE BLEACHER – Sundance 2024
DREAM CREEP – Sundance 2024
ALIEN0089 – SUNDANCE
THE FAMILY CIRCUS–A Tense Family Affair–SUNDANCE
SOCRATES’ ADVENTURES IN THE UNDER GROUND–One Surreal & Absurd Short–Sundance 2022
BUGCRUSH–A Creepy, Crawly Affair–Sundance 2022
NIGHT BUS–A Bloody Good Ride–Sundance 2022
APPENDAGE–A Fun Bit Of Body Horror–Sundance 2022
THE BLEACHER – Sundance 2024
DREAM CREEP – Sundance 2024
ALIEN0089 – SUNDANCE
THE FAMILY CIRCUS–A Tense Family Affair–SUNDANCE
SOCRATES’ ADVENTURES IN THE UNDER GROUND–One Surreal & Absurd Short–Sundance 2022
BUGCRUSH–A Creepy, Crawly Affair–Sundance 2022
NIGHT BUS–A Bloody Good Ride–Sundance 2022
APPENDAGE–A Fun Bit Of Body Horror–Sundance 2022