Nicole Georgallas’ M.F.A. thesis film, Evelyn’s Room, premiered at the Boston Underground Film Festival on Thursday, March 22. The sixteen-minute short follows Nicole as she goes through her grandmother’s empty house after her grandparents had both passed away. This experimental narrative short from Tootsie Productions is based on true events …
Read More »WTF Festival Presents ‘Ghost Stories’: A Fresh, Supernatural Anthology
Imagine living your dream career of debunking supernatural hoaxes and, one day, your childhood idol – the one who inspired your work – sends you a package including a personalized recorded message. Would this shock you? What if the individual also happened to be missing and presumed dead? I’m sure …
Read More »‘Hide In the Light’ (2018) Movie Review
In Mikey McGregor’s new thriller, Hide In the Light, a group of urban explorers find more than they bargained for when they break into an abandoned orphanage. The group find themselves facing a supernatural force that is looking for more souls. The movie opens in the building’s past, with the arrival of …
Read More »BUFF 2018: ‘Chickens’ (2017) Horror Short Review
For 2018’s Boston Underground Film Festival, Alt Horror has offered up Chickens, a 12 minute short sure to fire up even the most level-headed film buff. It doesn’t matter where you stand on the matter of how the police deal with the black community. Chickens will leave you agitated, frustrated …
Read More »BUFF 2018 : ‘Mother’ – Short Film Review
Korky Films and Director Lee Charlish present the animated short, Mother, for this year’s Boston Underground Film Festival. The short sci-fi film opens with a woman who speaks candidly about desperately wanting to become a mother. One night, she is visited by some kind of extraterrestrial creature who attempts to put a seedling …
Read More »BUFF 2018: ‘Let The Corpses Tan’ (2017) Capsule Review
Wonderfully offbeat and original, visually sublime and savage in style and delivery, Let The Corpses Tan is a refreshing and creative take on the crime/thriller fueled by an enigmatic and powerful presence of storytelling. The screen lights up with an engrossing display of vivid colors, suspenseful ultra-violent bravura and classic …
Read More »BUFF 2018: ‘BFF Girls’ – Short Film Review
I’ve watched a lot of awesome features and shorts thus far for the 2018 Boston Underground Film Festival. However, one I couldn’t wait to check out was BFF Girls. It’s one that’s been receiving a lot of hype and it’s definitely unique compared to some of the other shorts circulating right …
Read More »BUFF 2018: ‘Revenge’ – Horror Film Review: Brutally Intense, Ruthlessly Revengeful
I love revenge films. They are often riddled with pain, degrading situations, and intense emotions but there’s always more to it. That is just the beginning. Empowerment is what fuels them. A spark of hope and rage that one can only truly understand if you’ve been put in a situation …
Read More »Celebrating the 55th Anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’
“It’s the end of the world.” Today, we celebrate the 55th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s riveting masterpiece, The Birds, which was released in 1963. Along with 1960’s Psycho, The Birds is one of the films that are identified with Hitchcock. The man is known as a Master of Suspense for good …
Read More »BUFF 2018: ‘Happy Birthday, Brenda’ – Horror Short Review
I have absolutely loved covering all of the films that I was able to for The Boston Underground Film Festival. Each one so vastly different than the last. I am awestruck with how awesome all of these films were. The last one that I personally will be covering is no …
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