Festivals: Chattanooga Film Fest
Chattanooga 2025: David Dastmalchian Guest Programming, Sneak Peek, World Premieres
[still from Pater Noster and the Misson of Light] Holy. Smokes. The Chattanooga Film Festival in the year of our cinematic gods, 2025, is unhinged. You can check out all of the films, events, and guests previously announced via the...
Chattanooga's Second Rad Wave: Tina Romero's QUEENS OF THE DEAD, Metal AF FAUST, World Premieres
The Chattanooga Film Festival remains to be one of my favorite film festivals in the U.S. It's certainly the most punk rock, and they continue to champion truly independent cinema. It's a festival that wears its bloody heart on its...
Chattanooga 2025: First Wave of Titles Announced
Doing a bit of catch up as our friends at Chattanooga Film Festival announced the first wave of titles for this year's festival last week. Whoopsie. I'll recover from the shock of the claim in the second paragraph in...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: SOMNIUM, Where Ambition, Exploitation, and Desperation Meet
Chloë Levine stars in writer-director Racheal Cain's intriguing feature debut.
Chattanooga 2024 Review: VIDEO VISION Looks Backward to Look Forward in a Wonderful Queer Romance Body Horror Story
Video Vision wears its Videodrome influence on its sleeve. Of course there's the name, but it goes further than that; both are about their central characters becoming one with analog technology and both make fantastic use of practical effects, especially...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: NOCLIP Goes Nowhere On Purpose
NOCLIP opens with a silly animated commercial for the Kansas City Missouri mall Crown Center. It's a real mall that's existed for more than half a century now, though I haven't been able to determine whether or not the commercial...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: SWEET RELIEF, Or, BLUE VELVET for the 21st Century
While many films, including some of its festival mates at the Chattanooga Film Festival this year, regurgitate some of David Lynch's images and ideas, Sweet Relief offers something comparable to, rather than derivative of the master of modern dark surrealism....
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024: Massive, Mind-Melting Last Wave
Wow. Wow wow wow. The Chattanooga Film Festival just unleashed a cavalcade of cinematic insanity for their upcoming extravaganza (June 21-23 in person, June 21-28 virtual). We’re big fans of CFF’s annual explosion of genre fun, featuring narrative features, docs,...
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024: First Wave, Plus Serling, Poe, Spooky Book Fair
Calling all fans who love rad, indie festivals and films! The Chattanooga Film Festival has just released their first wave of features and additional events, lovingly put together by the most fun weirdos in Tennessee. CFF is one of...
TEARSUCKER Review: Uncomfortable in All the Right Ways
Sam Brittan and Allison Walter star in a film directed by Stephen Vanderpool, now on VOD.
Chattanooga 2023 Review: END ZONE 2 and THE ONCE AND FUTURE SMASH Invite Viewers Into an Alternate Horror History
The multi-film, single project experiment has been done before, perhaps most famously with The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, which saw different perspectives on the same story. But with End Zone 2 and The Once and Future Smash, creative team Sophia...
Chattanooga 2023 Review: SOUR PARTY Takes Viewers On a Hilarious Ride Through LA
Sour Party, the feature debut from co-writers/directors Amanda and Michael Drexton (billed as “The Drextons” in credits), isn’t particularly original in its narrative beats, a “one crazy day” story that takes us to various locations and introduces us to various...
Chattanooga 2023 Review: THE LAST MOVIE EVER MADE Delights in Filmmaking, Wallows in Drama
Nathan Blackwell wrote and directed the indie film.
Chattanooga 2023 Review: BRUTAL SEASON Brilliantly Melds Theater and Cinema
Gavin Fields wrote and directed the intense drama, starring Colleen Madden and Houston Settle.
Chattanooga 2023 Review: WE MIGHT HURT EACH OTHER, Graduation Party Gone Wrong Or Social Responsibility Lesson?
Jonas Trukanas directed the thoughtful horror thriller from Lithuania.
Chattanooga 2023: First Wave Arrives With WE MIGHT HURT EACH OTHER, Fest Returns In Person And Online
The Chattanooga Film Fest returns in style this year between June 23rd and the 29th to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The first film festival to pivot to an all-virtual event back in 2020 had remained online only in '21 and...
HUNT HER, KILL HER: First Poster Debuts, U.S. Theatrical Date Announced For Indie Horror Flick
On an otherwise peaceful evening during her first night on the job, a lone night shift janitor finds herself in an unexpected fight for survival when she becomes the target of sinister masked intruders.
THE UNSETTLING: Official Trailer Premiere For Horror Indie to be Released by Dark Sky Films
A foreign couple's visit is disturbed when the house they rent slowly stalks them, consuming their sorrow and trapping them in a nightmare.
Chattanooga 2022: Second Wave Lineup Is Here, THE LEECH Opens, NIGHT SHIFT Closes
The premiere genre film fest in the American South is back with their third all virtual edition, and this year's Chattanooga Film Fest looks to be another winner. In addition to the previously announced films, we've learned that Eric Pennycoff's...
Get Onboard! The Chattanooga (Virtual) Film Fest Returns With 2022 First Wave!
It's that time of year again, the 2022 Chattanooga (Virtual) Film Fest is right around the the first wave of titles and events is here! Taking place from June 23rd through the 28th, CFF is hosting at least one more...
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