Mathieu Labaye’s tribute to his father, who suffered from multiple sclerosis when he was 29 years old, was confined to a wheelchair at 40, and died of pneumonia at the age of 55. Labaye has an indisputable talent for creating music and visual art that radiates a surplus of energy. Warning: like our [...]
If there’s one thing we like more than a talented, unconventional film director, it’s one who also writes extraordinary music. John R. Hand is one of these talented artists. His band, User Assumes Risk, mixes their disturbing electronic music with horrifying, gruesome images for a live performance that would make Marilyn Manson envious. CORRECTION: [...]
DIRECTED BY: John R. Hand
FEATURING: Jeremy Hosbein, Amanda Edington
PLOT: A survivor of the apocalypse is conflicted about his mother, who is addicted to a
black fluid that keeps her eternally young but causes disorientation and scarring.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Scars of Youth is a beautifully lensed film, filled with dreamlike images and montages. [...]
DIRECTED BY: Veit Helmer
FEATURING: Kristyna Malérová, Max Mauff
PLOT: A young couple’s about-to-be-consummated love is threatened when the women of
their village organize a sex strike against the lazy townsmen who will not fix the pipe that brings water to the hamlet.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Disqualified for false advertising in the title: there’s nothing absurdist [...]
DIRECTED BY: Jennifer Lynch
FEATURING: Bill Pullman, Julia Ormand, Michael Ironside
PLOT: Two FBI agents/weirdos harass criminals and innocents alike as they
search for a couple of murderers to whom they might have ties.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Think CSI or NCIS meets Natural Born Killers. The weird quotient is totally crushed by the earthbound [...]
DIRECTED BY: Jared Drake
FEATURING: Zach Galifianakis, Judy Greer, Mía Maestro, Missi Pyle and Chris Coppola
PLOT: Repressed corporate employees the world over are literally bursting apart from
frustration. Innocuous worker George Winsterhammerman must deal with his huge corporate employer’s misguided and demeaning attempts to remedy the malady. But could the source of the problem [...]
“I CAN SEE YOU is a film about the thing that frightens me the most… my own mind… we as sentient human beings are completely at the mercy of an organ that we may never fully understand; an organ that, at the slightest malfunction, can throw our perception of reality into such chaos and confusion [...]
DIRECTED BY: Bruce McDonald
FEATURING: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly
PLOT: Zombies who aren’t really zombies wreak havoc upon the peaceful (i.e. dull)
Canadian town of Pontypool. We’re taken through the terror through the perspective of a local FM Zoo Crew DJ and his associates as more and more reports come into the station describing unnaturally violent [...]
We are pleased to debut James Mannan and Robbin Panet’s short film “Hallow’s Dance” on the web. Although there is a mild Halloween theme to the film, Hallow’s Dance should not be confused with a horror film. It is in fact a drama, with the only horror being moral horror at the treatment of Frank/Mom. [...]
DIRECTED BY: Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel
FEATURING: Jenny Spain, Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan
PLOT: Two high school delinquents find an undead young woman and use her as a sex
slave.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Deadgirl is weird by virtue of its highly unconventional subject matter, which is treated in as matter-of-factly as a conventional [...]
