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  • BUFF25: Alma & The Wolf, Best Wishes to All, and Re-Animator 4K

    Well, that’s a wrap on the 25th annual Boston Underground Film Festival. This year was packed with weird, wild, and wonderful shorts and a diverse offering spanning genres and decades. From the Cage-rage Australian coasts to battles across time, the programmers of BUFF 25 packed a punch with this year’s festival. Thematically on point and…

  • An Array of Literary Influence Can’t Stir Lackluster “Wake Up”

    When you see a new movie on the way out from Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell, you have to get excited. Those names may look unfamiliar to some, but the directors make up two-thirds of directing trio RKSS and have been responsible for heavy genre hitters like Turbo Kid and Summer of 84. Seeing the…

  • Time Travel is Dangerous Reminds Us Not To Get Stuck in the Past

    There are two types of people in this world: those who love the wry, witty humor of Christopher Guest and those who just don’t get it. Mockumentaries like Waiting for Guffman, Spinal Tap, and Best in Show have been lauded for their sardonic and dry humor. If you’re a fan of any of those three…

  • Faith and the Dark Arts Collide in A Cursed Man

    Liam Le Guillou is not the type of person you picture walking into the homes of Hoodoo Priests in New Orleans and entering the caves of South American devil worshipers. If anything, the documentary director looks like the kind of guy you’d see on a Sunday afternoon visit to the hardware store or Target run.…

  • BUFF 25: The Surfer, Chain Reactions, Fréwaka, and More

    The Boston Underground Film Festival got underway on Wednesday night with a duo of big-screen beachside films that manage to evoke every manner of summer except the chilled vibes. Tensions ran high in the packed Brattle auditorium for The Surfer, which was a blast to watch with a crowd. The Surfer If you’re a fan…

  • BUFF 25: The Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Dunwich Horrors Short Block

    For however long I’ve been going to The Boston Underground Film Festival, The Dunwich Horrors block has always been an extremely creative mix of bold concepts and effects-rich horror. The BUFF 25 lineup for the shorts block this year is no different, with ideas that touch upon gender roles, social injustices, war, and politics, all…

  • BUFF 25: Head Like A Hole Mixes Severance with Clive Barker

    You just never know what to expect from films you see at film festivals. That may seem like a pretty obvious statement, but for those who’ve never attended a film festival, let me assure you it can often be a Cracker Jack surprise that can go either way. As I settled into enigmatic indie Head…

  • The Parenting Proves a Great Cast Can Boost a Bad Movie

    Introducing your partner to your parents can be a nerve-wracking experience. Such is the case for The Parenting’s Rohan (Twisters’ Nik Dodani) and Josh (Hellraiser 2022’s Brandon Flynn), who have decided to whisk their polar opposite parents away to a cozy, isolated Airbnb in the woods to get to know each other as Rohan prepares to ask Josh…

  • Uncontained: An Unconventional Family Affair Zombie Film

    No one can resist a good zombie movie. When done right, these tales about feral monsters and animalistic impulses have ways of asserting more humanity than many of the thousands of films put out each year. Zombie movies have a rhythmic road map: outbreak, meet the survivors, attack, hard loss, grandiose overture, and aftermath. They’re…

  • Control Freak Will Make You Itch All Over

    Hulu has been growing their original horror content for a long time. For those of us who remember the premiere of Into the Dark in October 2018, horror fans eagerly anticipated monthly original movies from the streamer in collaboration with Blumhouse Television. I was heartbroken when it ended. As Into the Dark faded out, Hulu…