So we are wrapping up our coverage of the Overlook Film Festival and we have some exciting news to share. Filmmaker Brooklyn Ewing (She Was So Pretty, She Was So Pretty: Be Good for Goodness Sake) is going to make a horror anthology as her next film and it is called Tales from the Creep. The five tales will be hosted by Alfie (Jerry Larew, Jr.), the killer creep from the She Was So Pretty franchise. You can check out the Facebook page to keep up to date on the project and see

Good Afternoon from the Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans! We are very pleased to announce that MARCON was kind enough to let us take over one of their late night blocks and we are going to share some of our favorite horror shorts from the last year. Join us for the first ever The Film Coterie Presents: Late Night Horror Shorts Extravaganza!!! Our panel will be on Saturday, May 12 at 10:00 PM in the Fairfield Room of the Hyatt Regency. Weekend and Single Day badge inform

Horror anthologies generally have the same bones. A wraparound story opens and closes the film and gives a purpose for why these stories are being told. For the same reason that a character in a found footage movie must state why they won't put down the camera (no matter what), a wraparound answers the fundamental "why is this happening?" in the audience's mind. In Tales from the Darkside, a young boy is stalling for time so he tells 3 tales to a witch before she eats him. In

Black market organ sales. A luchador trying to live up to his name's legacy. An accountant and his friend with an unfortunate facial tattoo. A mother trying to reconnect with her long lost daughter. All of these seemingly separate tales crash together for a violent conclusion in Lowlife, the debut film from Ryan Prows. I first heard about this film out of Fantasia. The descriptions being tossed around mostly invoked Tarantino and Pulp Fiction, which was music to my ears, esp

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that’s a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet. Well let me just come out and say it, Isle of Dogs is my first contender for movie of the year. Directed by Wes Anderson ( Grand Budapest Hotel, Rushmore) Isle of Dogs is a movie that just works on so many levels. First the film