Naomi Cooper – Excited to cover Freakout Fest last Thursday night with both words and drawing, I hustled to the box office near the new “Freakout in the Streets” outdoor stage and managed to catch a bit of Chris King and the Gutterballs before totally-not-speedwalking over to Hotel Albatross for The Kathy Moore Super Power Trio (KMSPT) with special guest Jessica Lurie.
Tim Basaraba – I have no idea what The Whitest Kids U’Know is, so hold on a minute
Peter Cameron – George Sluzier’s late ’80s film The Vanishing makes it unnervingly clear that humanizing a monster is more frightening than a mask. Freddy and Jason can hack to bits as many victims as they want, it still won’t scare me as much as the unspeakable acts that humans are capable of.
Tim Basaraba – I had the pleasure of seeing You Won’t Be Alone in the theater, alone. I hadn’t seen a trailer or even a poster except the one I saw outside the theater that day. As I glanced at the poster, one name stood out.
Tim Basaraba – This is the fifth Scream film. Can you believe Wes Craven was able to deconstruct modern horror with FOUR films before he died? This was an especially amazing feat given he helped redefine the genre in the first place. Could a new set of directors, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, tap into what made the originals so special?
