Category: Transfer X
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Part I: The Cult Awakens If the first wave of Black Metal was about discovering extremity, then the second wave was about weaponizing it. The early Norwegians didn’t just want to play faster or sound scarier — they wanted to live Black Metal. They wanted it to be a creed, a way of life, not…
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I was lucky enough to be there on the opening night of Grove Productions’ show Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a run starting at the perfect time of year. Throughout, it was spooky, intense, and incredibly well–acted. The colours and lighting used perfectly accentuated the seasonal feel of the performance, and the special effects were…
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When we think of old Hollywood the silent film era of Charlie Chaplin and the birth of American cinema, we picture a glamorous world preserved in black and white celluloid. But beneath the surface of that glittering industry lay a seedy underbelly of greed, addiction, and violence. The 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor stands…
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We are now less than a week away from the start of the twenty-ninth edition of one of the biggest film festivals on the planet, the Fantasia International Film Festival. This year, the festival begins with Ari Aster’s Eddington, concludes with Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed, and is packed with over one hundred additional features to occupy…
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If you’ve followed any of my coverage on The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch or Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch, then you know where I land on the topic of Ufology. This area of study is fascinating from a multitude of angles. On one side of the aisle are a group of dedicated researchers and experiencers…
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Bigfoot has a monopoly on the cryptid subgenre. Something about the hairy creature tickles the fancy of filmmakers over other fascinating cryptids. When putting this list of cryptid films together I knew I had to talk about at least one Bigfoot film—but my goal is to shine a light on some underseen cryptid films that…
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Just when Salem, Massachusetts, thinks it’s safe to smash their pumpkins and take down their twelve-foot skeletons, the Happenstance Horror Fest will resurrect the horror spirit of the city for a last-gasp horror shorts marathon on November 2. The Happenstance Horror Fest has been running for seven years in various New England locations, showing some…
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David Lynch’s 1997 noir film, Lost Highway, featuring an embarrassing amount of Marylin Manson, is at least Wikipedially about jazz musician Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), who murders his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette), whom he suspects of having an affair with porn facilitator and pimp Andy (Michael Massee). While awaiting execution, Fred falls into a psychogenic…