Author: Landon Palmer

When I’ve shared the trailer for Bronson with friends, I repeatedly noticed an initial confusion followed by curious interest. The confusion always results from the…

Warning: In the interest of discussing the problem of spoilers, this article discusses the act of spoiling in criticism of the film Antichrist, a discussion…

When Lars von Trier co-wrote the Dogme 95 manifesto quite some time ago with fellow European filmmakers, he mandated that, for a film to receive…

Anthony DiBlasi’s Clive Barker’s Dread has a fascinating premise: it centers on a group of college students who engage in a project on fear, interviewing…

Children have been used with a polarized range of convention in horror film. On one end is the perception of childhood innocence, using children as…

You’ve seen it a hundred times before. A group of young, naïve twentysomethings with the whole world ahead of them pick up an ominous stranger…

There are many things the FSR Death Squad disagree on regarding what’s happened on and off the screen so far at this year’s Fantastic Fest…

Paranormal Activity has a complicated and frustrating history. Released in competition at various festivals as early as October 2007 and picked up by a major…

Austin is now the third major US city I’ve lived in since officially leaving the nest of my parents’ home in central Texas six years…