The people have spoken. Jurors and filmgoers alike have cast their votes for the best films shown at this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. The festival’s ninth year featured winners across the subgenre spectrum. There was something for everyone, but this year’s winners went above and beyond. Macabre Daily is continuing to roll out reviews and coverage, but for now, take a look at the films and filmmakers who made a splash at this year’s event.
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Two couples accidentally book the same Airbnb on the same weekend. It’s awkward, but they bond and become lifelong friends. The end…if this were a Hallmark movie. Lucky for us, Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan has something more sinister in mind with her latest, “Bone Lake,” a thriller about seduction that gets bonus points for featuring The Exploited’s “Sex and Violence” in more than one scene.
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Much like Hansel, sci-fi body horror is so hot right now. From “The Substance,” “Alien: Romulus,” to the Frankenstein-like stories of “Birth/Rebirth,” “Poor Things,” and, well, “Lisa Frankenstein,” there’s been a glut of recent films about the minutiae of our bodies and how they can be manipulated and transformed. Entering the arena is “Grafted,” a gnarly tale of an outsider taking her place in an indifferent world, one face at a time.
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There’s a scene in the recent adaptation of “The Fall Guy,” where the script supervisor approaches the director played by Emily Blunt. The big-budget film they’re shooting is running into some screenplay issues in the third act, but obviously shooting won’t be halted to work them out. The script suggests they add a line to the film calling attention to the script problems as a way to get ahead of the audience, which is immediately shot down. This scene, while funny, is indicative of the problems with Yuson Fuadi’s new film “The Draft!”
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We’ve seen this story before. A cloistered religious community, possibly a cult, represses and abuses its female members, leading to liberation with disastrous results for the congregation. “The Starling Girl,” “Women Talking,” and “Them That Follow” are all recent examples of stories that are unfortunately too relevant today in Dean Puckett’s first feature “The Severed Sun".
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If you’re at all familiar with the online horror community, you’ve probably heard of Clarke Wolfe. She’s a podcaster, filmmaker, host, and she recently won “Best Supporting Actress” at the Hollywood Blood Horror Film Festival for her role in this week’s anthology horror film, “Tenants.” Wolfe plays “Belinda,” a put-upon roommate in “Need Anything,” a hilariously bloody look at cohabitation.
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Having made a bloody splash at this year’s Fantasia and Sitges Film Festival, the (deep breath) Estonian musical horror comedy “Chainsaws Were Singing!” wreaked havoc on this year’s Fantastic Fest. The hype for Sandar Maran’s blood-soaked DIY labor of love has reached a fever pitch, but is it worth the buzz (I apologize for nothing)?
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Living in a building surrounded by strangers can be a perilous experience. But how well do we really know our neighbors? Do we try to or even want to? It’s a simple, but interesting premise for several horror films. “Tenants,” the new film from directors Johnathan Louis Lewis, Sean Mesler, and Blake Reigle, marries these concepts into an anthology that surprisingly hasn’t been made into a film yet.
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For genre fans in the NYC area, it’s becoming a new October tradition to check out the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. Last year it showed some heavy horror hitters like “Stopmotion” and “Where the Devil Roams,” as well as a screening of “Maniac Cop” with William Lustig, himself in attendance. it looks like 2024 is shaping up to be just as big, if not bigger.
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If you give a mouse a cookie, the mouse will ask for a glass of milk. If you give a DIY filmmaking collective a real budget and a crew, they’ll give you a gooey good time. That’s what the Adams Family has brought us with this year’s Shudder exclusive, “Hell Hole.” John Adams, his wife Toby Poser, and their daughters Lulu Adams and Zelda Adams are known for making handmade, but striking horror films in upstate, New York. They write, direct, score, act in, and edit their own films, and have been doing so for years. This time, they've moved production to Serbia to tell a creature feature, Adams-style.
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A new Adams Family film is becoming an annual tradition. The prolific filmmaking family is back with arguably their most accessible film yet, the Shudder exclusive “Hell Hole.” John Adams and Toby Poser have directed another, homemade horror film, co-written with their daughter Lulu Adams (their other daughter and collaborator Zelda Adams is hanging back for this one, since she’s starting a modeling career, but don’t worry, she’s still in the band).
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In another life, Clay McLeod Chapman would be an actor. Anyone who’s witnessed him read one of his short stories can’t help but notice how animated he gets. He’ll just have to settle for “best selling horror author,” but I think he can live with that.
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The New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center doesn’t look like much from the outside. It’s a long, single-story industrial space in the middle of Edison, New Jersey, but it’s also home to one of the best horror conventions on the East Coast. There have been about 19 editions of the New Jersey Horror Con, but this past weekend’s has been the biggest so far.
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The single solitary Friday the 13th in 2023 happens to be in October, and that means Lowell and Matt have dusted off their hockey masks and sharpened their machetes for a Friday the 13th TOP 5! Lowell and Matt also talk about their favorite films from #FantasticFest and a special shoutout to the #FonsPR team for including us and the #MacabreDaily team for the fest!
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Trying new things can be scary. As Eduardo Sánchez recently discovered, they can also be absolutely hilarious. Sánchez is best known for being a co-director of “The Blair Witch Project,” but he’s been directing horror for over 2 decades, including a segment in this year’s horror anthology “Satanic Hispanics.” Dipping his toe into the horror comedy subgenre, Sánchez’s “El Vampiro” is a slapstick comedy about a vampire who has to make it home before Daylight Savings.
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This week marks 35 years since the release of “A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.” Helmed by future blockbuster director Renny Harlin, “Dream Master” was a massive hit, known for being louder, brighter, quippier, and just BIGGER than any entry in the series before or since. While the film is memorable for its special effects, including several eye-popping deaths, it also introduced us to one of the best Final Girls in horror, Alice Johnson, played by Lisa Wilcox.
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An interview with Bruce Seddon
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A review of “Outpost”
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A review of “The Outwaters”
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A review of “Deadstream”
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