Festivals: Boston Underground
Boston Underground 2024: IMMACULATE And BOY KILLS WORLD Bookend Annual Fest
The 24th annual Boston Underground Film Festival is fast approaching. As expected the great programming team at the festival have put together a banger lineup of titles. The fest will open with Michael Mohan’s convent-set horror Immaculate and end with fists! Bill Skarsgård's fists...
Nightstream Festival Returns with AFTER BLUE, HELLBENDER, AGNES, and More
As the world slowly peeks its head out from under the proverbial covers, there are still events that can be enjoyed by people across time zones. Last year, a number of prominent genre fests banded, unable to mount their live...
Nightstream 2021: Digital, Collaborative Festival Returns This October
Nightstream is coming back, baby. Last year's inaugural festival was a successful response to the shutdown that happened because of the pandemic. While all festivals in the collaborative effort are planning in-person or hybrid events this year, or next, there...
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Nightstream 2020: DINNER IN AMERICA Wins Audience Award
By all accounts everyone who virtually attended the Nightstream digital film festival had a great time. It was short (really, too short) and most certainly it was sweet. While we hope we do not have to do this type...
Nightstream 2020: Full Program Announced, Aneesh Chaganty's RUN Starring Sarah Paulson to Premiere And Open Online Event
You kind of had the sense that when Nightstream was announced, that if this many great festival minds were to combine their powers that the result of their efforts would be something really, really exceptional. If not, a pox on...
Nightstream 2020: Advance Look at Trailer For Genre Collective's Online Event in October
In August it was announced that our friends from the Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook, and Popcorn Frights film festivals would be combining their powers for good. This collection of U.S. Genre Film Festivals announced a collective virtual...
NIGHTSTREAM 2020: Genre Festival Collective Announces Virtual Event in October
If we have learned anything from this year is that (1) the show must go on, (1b) eventually, and (2) flexibility is a must. Of course the time to survey the festival landscape and see what has happened over the...
Boston Underground 2020: 22nd Annual Festival Features SAINT MAUD, DEERSKIN, JUMBO And More...
The Boston Underground is an institution of genre goodness in The People's Republic of Cambridge. Now in it's twenty second year BUFF prepares to bring another lineup brimming with hits and delights. There are a few favorites in...
MOPE: Vanishing Angle Picks up International Sales For Lucas Heyne's Sundance Selection
Lucas Heyne's Sundance selection Mope has been picked up for international sales by L.A. based Vanishing Angle. Mope just had its European premiere at the Sitges Film Festival yesterday. Our own Shelagh Rowan-Legg reviewed Mope when it played at...
Boston Underground 2019 Review: MOPE, What Violently Happens to a Dream Deferred
All jobs and professions require certain skills; most of these can be learned, allowing most people to learn as they go along, and become better the longer they work. But some jobs require a certain kind of talent, or perhaps...
Boston Underground 2019 Review: HAIL SATAN? The Devil is in the Delightful Details
A friend of mine has theorized that that US citizens would sooner vote for a black lesbian muslim before they would vote for an atheist, so ingrained is the notion that one must believe in a deity in order to...
Boston Underground 2019 First Wave Promises Satan, Lo-Fi Sci-Fi, Industrial Music & More
Boston Underground Film Festival 2019 is the 21st edition of New England's premier celebration of the bizarre and the insane, and year after year, it's only gotten better. From March 20 - 24, a rain of cinematic madness will drench...
Boston Underground Film Festival: First Wave Includes REVENGE, PIN CUSHION, LIQUID SKY & More!
A shining beacon of the weird, the wonderful, the nasty, the niche, and the eclectic, Boston Underground Film Festival returns for its 20th edition next month, and has announced its first wave of feature titles. I had the great pleasure...
Boston Underground 2017 Review: BITCH, A Hilarious and Vicious Bite at the Patriarchy
I doubt you would ever meet a woman who couldn't tell you about how, on a near daily basis, she must endure being dismissed, ignored or mistrusted by men. According to many, we are oversensitive, we exaggerate, we just 'need...
Boston Underground 2017 Review: FRAUD, A Twisted Look at Capitalism and the Public Image
What exactly do we mean when we say a film is a documentary? Do you mean a strict definition, in that a film is depicting or investing something that happened in reality? Or does it mean showing us things from...
Boston Underground 2017: The Shorts. The Lovely, Bloody, Weird, Scary, and Funny Shorts
Okay. Our apologies to the Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF) for our tardiness in getting to this announcement about the lineup of awesome short films playing at their 19th annual festival. But if you think about it, sending out a...
Boston Underground 2017 Final Wave: A DARK SONG, FRAUD, A LIFE IN WAVES, MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND & More
Boston Underground 2017 released their final demented wave yesterday, and the delights are many --- rejoice, weirdos! We'll have death insurance dealers, music pioneers, Hollywood dog groomers, undocumented immigrants, Irish charlans, American con artists, and of course, an array of...
Boston Underground 2017 First Wave: BITCH, PREVENGE, 68 KILL, THE VOID, TRINITY & More!
The weirdos at the Boston Underground Film Festival (Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA, March 22 - 26) unleashed its first wave of programming for its 19th year today --- and the selections are FANTASTIC. Features include previous BUFF alums, such as...
Boston Underground 2017: Call For Entries For Next Year's Festival
Golly, we are only half way through 2016 and those fine folks down at the Boston Underground Film Festival are already issuing a call for entries for their upcoming 19th annual festival. The festival runs next March, from the 22nd...
Boston Underground's Second Wave Includes WHY DON'T YOU PLAY IN HELL, STARRY EYES, More
Lest we forget there are other film festivals in March, the Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF) has unleashed its second wave of titles for its 16th, running March 26 - 30 at The Brattle Theatre. And it's a dynamite bunch...
