CURTAIN Plays B Movie Conventions Straight For Big Laughs
One of the more difficult lines to straddle when creating a farcical work is balancing treating the characters and their predicament with enough seriousness while still letting the audience in on the...
View ArticleHome Invasion Chiller CLEANING HOUSE Set To Premiere at BUFF’s Homegrown Horror
It’s an amazing and wonderful thing to watch your filmmaking friends continue to grow with each new work. Longtime friend (and sometimes site contributor) Andrea Wolanin has followed up her scifi...
View ArticleBUFF 2016: The Lure fills the mermaid shaped hole in my heart
This will be no surprise to readers who know my taste in film, but I like it weird. I like violence intersecting art. I like burlesque mashing-up with David Bowie. And now, thanks to the opening film...
View ArticleKILL YOUR FRIENDS Offers A Mix Tape Of Black Comedy & Sociopathology
Set in 1997 London, during the height of the “cool Brittanica” music craze when bands like Oasis and the Spice Girls ruled the airwaves, Kill Your Friends cribs heavily from the American Psycho...
View ArticleCHASING BANKSY Is An Artless, Ugly Movie
Over the course of a career that spans three decades Frank Henelotter has made his bones in the exploitation subgenre of horror films. With a cannon of films including Basket Case, Frankenhooker, and...
View ArticleFilm Thrills Podcast Episode 16: BUFF #18
http://filmthrills.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FT_BUFF_-_3_23_16_4.41_PM.m4a For 18 years the Boston Underground Film Festival has delivered a cornucopia of mind blowing cinema to fans from all...
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BUFF 2016: ANTIBIRTH continues the cinematic tradition of pregnancy being icky
Pregnancy is weird. Outside of my cat obsession, I consider myself an entirely non-maternal woman, so the thought of having another parasitic organism living inside of me for a full 40 week freaks me...
View ArticleTRASH FIRE Is A Tense, Venemous & Irresistable Experience
Almost a week after catching its New England Premiere, I find myself struggling to put down the right words to describe Ricky Bates Jr’s third film. While it was the standout among a number or worthy...
View ArticleHammer Fans Will Sink Their Teeth Into “Blood of the Tribades”
For their third feature film, Boston based (for now at least) husband & wife directing team Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola turned to the erotic vampire films of Jean Rollin and Hammer...
View ArticleSTAND BY FOR TAPE BACK-UP streaming online now!
STAND BY FOR TAPE BACK-UP is a little different than Film Thrills’s typical genre fare, but it is positively wonderful. Playing both Fantastic Fest and the Boston Underground Film Festival as a video...
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