For his first US production, Guillermo del Toro was hired to direct a B-level monster movie. He had different plans.
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Cinematic Negation: Alternative Operations of Horror in ‘Zombies Invade Pittsburg’
Infamous for its raw techniques and cinematic illogic, Jess Turner's SOV zombie film alternates boredom, incredulity, and outsider genius.
Full StoryMake Your Own Kind of Music: Motern Media’s ‘Heard She Got Married’ and ‘Metal Detector Maniac’
Motern’s funniest film plays like a spiritual successor to its most muted, a film like no other, that takes their filmmaking to new heights.
Full StoryOnline Premiere: Frank Mosley’s ‘Invaders From Venus!’ (2003)
Split Tooth is proud to present the online premiere of actor and director Frank Mosley's teenage space invasion epic, 'Invaders From Venus!'
Full StoryWe Haunt the Airwaves: ‘Halloween Party’ (David Skowronski, 1989)
One of the great celebrations of amateur horror filmmaking, Halloween Party is a backyard mini-epic by an ambitious teenager who gained control of Connecticut public access on Halloween night On...
Full StorySplit Picks Japanese Horror: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Cure’ (1997) Vs. ‘Daguerrotype’ (2016)
Split Picks looks at an absolute masterwork of horror and a later haunted romance from horror legend Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Full StoryMonozygotic Malpractice: David Cronenberg’s ‘Dead Ringers’ (1988)
A horror shrouded in drama, a psych-thriller inside a character study, 'Dead Ringers' finds the master of body horror morphing stylistically.
Full StoryYour Meeting Is About To End: ‘Host’ (2020)
Filmed entirely during the height of lockdown, Host captures a unique moment of terror in the way we lived it — with an added demon.
Full StoryPaperback: Prisoners of the Printed Page and the Frayed Aesthetics of ‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ (2021)
Presented on crumpled and torn paper, 'The Timekeepers of Eternity' is a re-adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Langoliers.'
Full StoryAvant Horror: Ernie Gehr’s ‘Serene Velocity’ (1970)
Serene Velocity finds the magical and the monstrous in an everyday location and the fundamental materials of filmmaking.
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