OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
5 Favorites Redux #94: Original Horror Films of the 1990s
Interviews
Stunts are Physical Story-telling: Maggie Q on The Protege
- Excerpt: And so, the discussions are endless and the physicality changes all the time based on, “What’s her history? What’s her skill set?” All of it is factored in.
Festivals: Individual Reviews
Betty Blue
Carnivorous Bean Sprout / Aria / Habitat
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Three shorts that touch on various aspects of a postmodern life; in the most horrific, uncomfortable ways possible.
Chingum / Juan-Diablo-Pablo / Laika
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Social and political hauntings abound in three short films from Ralph Pineda & Dyan Sagenes, Mihir Fadnavis, and Adam Fair.
Don’t Say Its Name
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: A group of Indigenous people come together to stop a supernatural threat terrorising their land in Rueben Martell’s Don’t Say Its Name.
Hellbender
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: John Adams, Zelda Adams, and Toby Poser have only gotten better (and scarier) with their latest weird, witchy film, HELLBENDER.
Hotel Poseidon
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Stefan Lernous’s HOTEL POSEIDON takes us into the absurd, spanning life, death, and a few things in between.
Incarnation / La Inquilina
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: In these two shorts, the past meets the present, in surprising, funny, and terrifying ways.
Inheritance / Una Nuova Perspettiva
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Two short films about the different layers of time and psychogeography.
King Knight
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: No matter what Bates does there are always strong themes present in his work. This latest film uses satire to explore the ways in which we create superficial identities and, in doing so, put up walls, often not totally because of others but just as much because of our own anxieties, insecurities, and judgements.
Koreatown Ghost Story / La Oscuridad
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: One is a story of ghosts, but unlike you’ve ever seen. One is a tale about a resurrected woman who met an untimely end.
The Last Thing Mary Saw
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Edoardo Vitaletti’s debut feature is a terrifying Gothic tragedy about queerness under religious pressure in the 19th century.
Lucid / The Expected / Other Bodies
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Three shorts, each involving the abject + women/their bodies in incredibly different ways.
Macho Carne / Monster Dyke
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Two transgressive shorts: one about queer male sexuality, the other about a trans lesbian & a monstrous physical love.
Martyrs Lane
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Ruth Platt’s Martyrs Lane weaves through the Gothic and the religious as a little girl tries to unravel her family’s secrets.
New York Asian Film Festival 2021 Part Two: The Con-Heartist, A Leg, Raging Fire
- Excerpt: The 2021 New York Asian Film Festival is winding down, but there are still plenty of films from this year’s lineup that I recommend seeking out even after the festival ends. Below are some highlights, including a wacky heist rom-com from Thailand, a dark comedy about mourning and identity from Taiwan, and an intense cop thriller starring one of Hong Kong’s most iconic stars.
The Righteous
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Mark O’Brien’s debut feature as director-writer tackles heavy, disturbing issues concerning male and religious power.
Thumb / Night Bus
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Two shorts: one involves a macabre mother-daughter relationship, the other concerns a couple revenge stories occurring at once.
Tropaion / The Relic
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Two shorts: one, a folk horror in a post-apocalyptic age; one, a cosmic horror of truly cosmic and hideous proportions.
Victim No. 6 / Dana / She Whistles
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Three short films, each about killer women subverting various gendered power dynamics.
Awards Coverage
The Friday Face-Off, Losers Bracket (Losers), Round 2 #1
Poll: Remaking Best Makeup & Hairstyling, 2000
Video Essays, Video Reviews, Vlogs & More
Character Actor Edward Everett Horton’s Silent Films Provoke Raucous Laughter
Other Types of Articles
Tatort: Streets of Berlin: Crime Scene Shenanigans Straight from Germany
- Excerpt: On the surface, it’s easy to label the long-running crime drama Tatort as “the German Law & Order.” Yet to do so glosses over what makes Tatort such a uniquely bizarre cultural institution.
