Festivals: Slamdance
Perry Blackshear's Psychological Horror Debut THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE Gets a Blu-ray Release From Yellow Veil
Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian. As the mysterious horrors close in on Wyatt, he questions whether to protect his only friend from an...
Slamdance 2022 Review: PARIS IS IN HARLEM, Mosaics of Life and Music
While there are a lot of laws enacted (and sometimes still exist) in cities that seem very odd and specific (I read once about a law forbidding people from hiding bees under their hats), some laws that seem strange on...
HONEYCOMB Trailer: Lo-Fi Remote Horror as Girls Find Their Magic
I couldn't be happier that we might be entering a golden age of films and television shows about girls gone wild - and I mean *truly* gone wild, alone in the wilderness, a danger to themselves and each other, finding...
Slamdance 2021 Review: A BLACK RIFT BEGINS TO YAWN, Pensive Cosmic Horror
Laura and Lara are investigating a set of cassette tapes left behind by a former now deceased professor. The tapes are said to contain recordings of strange signals from the cosmos. As they listen to the recordings they begin to...
Slamdance 2021 Exclusive: Watch The New Trailer For Lithuanian Drama Noir ISAAC
Jurgis Matulevičius' 2019 drama, Isaac, what is also being called a Soviet style film noir, is having its US premiere at Slamdance. His film centers around the real-life events of the Kaunas pogrom, five days in June 1941, during the...
Slamdance 2021 Trailer: CODE NAME: NAGASAKI
With a slew of fantastic short films, Norwegian writer-director Fredrik Hana has established his reputation as a filmmaker with a sharp eye for hauntingly beautiful visuals, anchored by dark, gripping narratives. Now he's back with his first feature-length documentary, Code...
Slamdance 2021 Review: NO TRACE, The Bleak Yet Hopeful Edge of Existence
We tend to have certain images that come to mind when we think of a near-future where our civilization has been irrevocably altered: lack of electricity, roaving bands of mercenaries or rebels, women especially both prized as possessions and in...
Slamdance 2021 BAD ATTITUDE: THE ART OF SPAIN RODRIGUEZ Exclusive Clip
Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez will have its world premiere in the Breakouts section at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. The festival runs on demand from February 12th through 25th. We have an exclusive clip to share...
Slamdance 2021 A BLACK RIFT BEGINS TO YAWN: Watch This Exclusive Clip From Matthew Wade's Indie Cosmic Horror
Matthew Wade's sophomore film, a micro-budget cosmic horror flick called A Black Rift Begins to Yawn, will have its world premiere at Slamdance in their Breakouts section next week. The film will be available on demand from February 12th to...
Slamdance 2021: MAN UNDER TABLE, Trailer Premiere For Noel Taylor's Absurdist Comedy
Noel Taylor's absurdist comedy Man Under Table or: I’m Writing a Movie is all set to have its World Premiere during the virtual edition of the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. It is participating in the Narrative Feature section and will be...
Exclusive Clip for NO TRACE: Slamdance Opening Film Sets Stark Dystopian Tone
You will have to forgive those of us who, despite the strange and seemingly never-ending circumstances of our current existence, still gravitate to films that, at least on the surface, are set in bleak and unforgiving times. Perhaps it's masochism,...
JASPER MALL Teaser: Slamdance Doc Looks at a Year in The Life of a Dying Shopping Mall
Have a look at the first teaser trailer for Jasper Mall, the new doc from Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb. We've written of the directors before and their recent film A Life in Waves, a film about electronic music pioneer...
Slamdance 2019 Review: CAT STICKS Makes Poetry of Pain and Beauty of Desperation
Kolkata, the eastern Indian megalopolis once known as Calcutta and commonly referred to as the City of Joy, has long been thought of as the center of intellectualism in India. Many of the country's most internationally lauded artists hail from...
Slamdance 2019: Exclusive KIFARU Clip - Calming a Rhino
As a genre-focused film site, we are generally more eager to watch a wild white rhino creating mayhem in outrageous and unbelievable action sequences on the big screen, rather than confronting the reality of the extinction of the last male...
Slamdance 2019: Watch HAPPY FACE Exclusive Clip - Group
In our exclusive clip from Happy Face, we hear from people who are often shut out of the cultural conversation, not necessarily because of what they say, but because of their outward appearance. Set in Montreal, the film will enjoy...
THE RAINBOW EXPERIMENT: Slamdance Avant-Drama Goes to Gravitas
If you've been digging the weirder, bolder side of American Indies circa 2018ish, namely Josephine Decker's stupendously stirring Madeline's Madeline, than you may want to keep your eye out for Christina Kallas' The Rainbow Experiment. Preposed as a jarring 21st century Rashomon,...
Slamdance 2018 Review: MAN ON FIRE, One Man's Ultimate Sacrifice and a Town's Reckoning With Its Racism
On June 23, 2014, a 79-year-old Methodist minister named Charles Moore drove to a nearly deserted shopping center parking lot in his former hometown of Grand Saline, Texas, poured gasoline on himself, and set himself on fire. The note Moore...
Slamdance 2018 Review: INGRID, A Self-Fulfilling Life
Many of us have likely had the dream of packing it all in: the modern world, the rat race, the rampant consumerism, and heading to a cabin in the woods, to get as far away from civilization as is possible...
Slamdance 2018 Review: FISH BONES, The Moments Between
Do we know the important conversations in our lives when they are happening, or only afterwards? Do we contemplate what we need to understand when we're at the crossroads, or at more seemingly mundane moments? Can we only know ourselves...
Slamdance 2018 Review: BIRDS WITHOUT FEATHERS Still Flock Together
We’ve all felt lonely and isolated at one point or another; it’s a feeling that comes and goes. But for the six wayward protagonists of Wendy McColm’s dark comedy/drama Birds Without Feathers, it’s an inescapable part of their lives, a...
