Marc Savlov
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Austin, TX, United States
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SXSW Film Review: Bitch Ass: A smart and sinister entry into the pantheon of Black nightmare cinema
A smart and sinister entry into the pantheon of Black nightmare cinema → Read More
Nosferatu Festival Celebrates Count Orlok's Centennial
Title Card Wisborg, Germany, Town Crier Announcement: The mayor announces that ill or plague-stricken people should not be seen on the streets and cannot be taken to the hospital. They must remain in their homes. While the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and World Health Organization scramble to keep up with the multiple whack-a-mole coronavirus variants that have turned modern life… → Read More
Fantastic Fest Review: Let the Wrong One In: This toothy farce from Dublin has gore galore and more
This toothy farce from Dublin has gore galore and more → Read More
Fantastic Fest Review: The Found Footage Phenomenon: New documentary unspools the reels of fake-real films
New documentary unspools the reels of fake-real films → Read More
Movie Review: F9: The Fast Saga
Script? We don't need no stinking script in the Toretto crew's latest → Read More
SXSW Film Review: Alien On Stage: Classic horror and British pantomime delightfully mix
Classic horror and British pantomime delightfully mix → Read More
Movie Review: Coup 53
Documentary unpacks America's involvement in the coup that wrecked Iran → Read More
Museum of the Weird to Auction Pieces of Horror History
Friday the 13th silent auction of props, collectibles, models, and more → Read More
Fantastic Fest Review: Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks: Documentary charts the global impact of Hong King action cinema
Documentary charts the global impact of Hong King action cinema → Read More
To Know Joe Lansdale Is to Love Joe Lansdale
All Hail the Popcorn King trails the writer of the purple rage → Read More
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
The highest praise I can give to “The Ninth Film From Quentin Tarantino” is that it’s the first movie in years that I’ve immediately decided I wanted – nay, needed – to watch again, as soon as possible. Hypnotically immersive to the nth degree, it’s a lovingly realized slice of alternate history that perfectly evokes in spectacularly granular detail a seemingly timeless moment in yesteryear… → Read More
Nosferatu Festival Celebrates the Original Cinematic Vampire
"Nosferatu? Does this word not sound like the call of the death bird at midnight? You dare not say it since the pictures of life will fade into dark shadows; ghostly dreams will rise from your heart and feed on your blood." – Opening title card from F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, 1922 With the ratlike upper incisors, the bald pate, and vulpine ears, actor Max Schreck's portrayal of the ur-bloodsucker… → Read More
Book Review: What If Texas Chain Saw Massacre Was Really About the Horrors of Modern American Society?
Putting the Austin-made seminal slasher back into context → Read More
Raising Hell With the Legacy of Molly Ivins at SXSW
Texas’ beloved crusading journalist gets her documentary due → Read More
They Shall Not Grow Old
Peter Jackson's extraordinary World War I documentary finds humanity in a hellish war → Read More
Zack Carlson Cracks the Vault on Terror Tuesdays at the Drafthouse
Wild and weird movie expert on the underground horror phenom → Read More
Terror Tuesday Continues to Be the Alamo’s Bloody Beating Heart
Once upon a time in Austin, there was a scrappy little movie theatre with a grotty ceiling, a smallish screen, and a mission to show the coolest movies to the most rabid movie fanatics. The original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, situated at 409 Colorado, programmed the good, the bad, and the weird – especially the weird. These days, you'll hear the occasional gripe that the expanding theatre chain… → Read More
Movie Review: Glass
M. Night Shyamalan's meta-comic trilogy crashes into Earth with a dull splat → Read More
The True Story of the Somewhat Lost Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger star in this largely forgotten sequel
Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger star in this largely forgotten sequel → Read More
Film Review: The Hate U Give
Astounding adaptation of YA novel critiques race in modern America → Read More