US Ambassador Calls For Australians To Stop Pirating GAME OF THRONES
Come on Aussies, this is serious. The US Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey Bleich, has set aside diplomacy to issue a drastic call for Australians to stop pirating Game of Thrones. In a missive posted on his official Facebook page at 3:14am... More »
  

Texas Frightmare Weekend 2013 Brings Lunacy To The Lone Star State Once Again
2013 marks the ninth anniversary of the southwest's biggest horror convention, Texas Frightmare Weekend, and while we at Twitch don't typically do a lot of convention coverage apart from San Diego Comic Con, TFW rates as an exception due to... More »
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Now on Blu-ray: Don Coscarelli Double Feature - PHANTASM II, JOHN DIES AT THE END
Don Coscarelli isn't a name that sends studio heads scrambling for their checkbooks, but if you're a fan of esoteric and bloody horror films, you know the guy's work. Coscarelli's largest contribution to the world of horror cinema in undoubtedly the... More »
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Witness The Sad Fate Of The Bread-Head Man
Poor Bread-Head man.... More »
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Joyeux Noel! PANIQUE AU VILLAGE (A TOWN CALLED PANIC) Returns With New Christmas Special!
Here's an early Christmas present worth getting excited about: Panique Au Village - best known on these shores as A Town Called Panic - is returning to screens later this year with a brand new Christmas special. For those unfamiliar,... More »
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The Writer And Star Of PONTYPOOL Enter The HELLMOUTH! Help Bring It To Life!
The words written by Tony Burgess sound awfully good coming out of the mouth of Stephen McHattie, or so seems to be the general consensus among those who have seen Bruce McDonald directed zombie film Pontypool. McHattie took the lead... More »
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Udine 2013 Review: MARUYAMA, THE MIDDLE SCHOOLER Is A Surprisingly Endearing Comedy About Self-Fellatio
Before seeing Maruyama, The Middle Schooler, I would have said that making a two-hour comedy about a fourteen-year-old boy who's primary ambition throughout the film is to, as the omniscient narrator puts it, "to touch his own weeny with his... More »
  

That'll Do, Whale: Saying Goodbye to Film Criticism
My first film festival badge as press.This is my last post as a film critic. Seems like only yesterday two guys had a dream to make a fun movie website to belt out their affinity for all things cinema. Gordon... More »
  

Brussels 2013 Wrap: Blood, Guts, Singing Filmmakers
During the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, I saw vengeful ghosts, vampire threesomes, transvestite killers, monstrous gorillas, giant spiders and at least a dozen decapitations. Just as entertaining though, were the multiple directors that I saw singing a cappella to... More »
  

Pop Singers! Kung Fu! Glamor Shots! It's THE LEGEND OF TRIO MACAN!
Strange things can happen when pop stars make movies and that's even more true when they do so in a country predisposed towards making some rather strange movies in the first place. Enter Indonesian singers Trio Macan, stars of upcoming... More »
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Awww, Yeah! It's The Epic New Trailer For Steven Kostanski's MANBORG!
Awww, yeah! Steven Kostanski's Manborg hits US DVD April 30 from Dark Sky Films and they've got a brand new epic trailer loaded with as much demon killing, kung fu fighting, cyborg action as you can handle to celebrate!Half-man, half-cyborg:... More »
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GHOST GRADUATION Wins Big at Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
Javier Ruiz Caldera's widely-acclaimed, paranormal version of The Breakfast Club, Ghost Graduation, took home not only the coveted Golden Raven at the 31st Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, but also the audience award! In other words, if the movie screens... More »
  

Behold The Camel Riding, Yodeling Norwegians.
Meet Polkabjorn and Heine Bugge, a pair of young men from Norway who like to yodel. Specifically, they like to yodel popular hits from the 1930s. Which somehow got them invited to Israel, whence they were accompanied by a camera... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Brussels 2013 Review: TEBANA SANKICHI: SNOT ROCKETS Will Turn Your Brain To Mush
Writing a review of Tebana Sankichi: Snot Rockets is impossible, and probably stupid to attempt. Reviews involve structuring words and sentences in order to give the reader an idea of what a movie is like and whether it is good... More »
  

Calvin Lee Reeder's THE RAMBLER Rambles Into Theater June 7th, Onto Blu-ray/DVD June 28th
Never thought I'd see the day when a Calvin Lee Reeder film would end up on Blu-ray, but here we are. On June 25, Anchor Bay will release Reeder's Sundance and SXSW audience-dividing nightmare, The Rambler, on Blu-ray and DVD. I... More »
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Hey, Canada! Win A Signed Copy Of The Enjoyably Ridiculous MANBORG!
Hey, Canada! Steven Kostanski's cult hit Manborg hits DVD April 16th and Raven Banner and Anchor Bay want to give three signed copies away to lucky Twitch readers!Half-man, half-cyborg: Manborg. Killed while battling the forces of hell, a supersoldier is... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Brussels 2013 Review: CULT Is A Wacky Found-Footage Horror Oddity
Those miffed by the fact that the monsters in Apollo 18 turned out to be moon rocks with legs will likely be even more enraged by antagonists of the Japanese found-footage horror film Cult. Granted, I never actually saw the... More »
  

Interview: Shane Carruth Talks UPSTREAM COLOR
Interviewing Shane Carruth is just as complex as watching his movies, and rightfully so. After his feature film Primer released, he gained all kinds of buzz and had movie geeks (and large studios) foaming at the mouth. Instead of giving... More »
  

The Producers Of HEADHUNTERS Present An Unlikely Hero In DETECTIVE DOWNS
If this one works, it's going to work very well indeed. But if it doesn't? Oh, dear ... if it doesn't work then a whole lot of people are going to be very, very angry.Norway's Friland Produksjon - the producers... More »
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BIFFF 2013 Preview: Russian Zombies, Japanese Werewolves and More!
For the 31st time, the good folks at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival have pulled together a cornucopia of the most horrifying, surreal, wacky and overall "fantastic" films of the year. The festival kicks off today, and I'm reporting... More »
  
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