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Board to Death
Short / Independent / Noir / Thriller
A wife plays a board game with her husband in which she spells out the names of men. The man, raging with jealousy, sees these names as the men with whom she's had an affair with. With each name, the husband hunts them down for destroying the sanctity of his marriage. However, the man knows his wife all too well and understands that there's a more sinister game afoot.
The Toxic Avenger
Independent / Comedy / Horror
Melvin the mop boy is mocked by everyone where he works - the Tromaville gym - but it is all about to change. After being set up to be ridiculed, Melvin ends up in a barrel of nuclear waste and he turns into the horrific, but kind, monster hero "The Toxic Avenger". He's ready to clean up the streets from scum.
Dracula 3D
In the mountains of Transylvania, Count Dracula's castle is situated. Jonathan Harker is on his way from England to catalogue Dracula's library. It is obvious to Jonathan that Dracula is a peculiar man, but before he knows it he is a prisoner in Dracula's castle. When Jonathan manages to escape from the castle, Dracula is going after Jonathan's fiancÈe Mina and her friend.
Hallelujah! Gorilla Revival
Short / Experimental
A nightmarish journey through a recollection of disjointed imagery.
Horror / Comedy
A group of college students decide to do a research paper on local legend Crinoline Head — a psychotic killer with mommy issues who butchered a cabin full of kids in 1996. When the kids reach the infamous spot in the woods where the massacre occurred, they discover that Crinoline Head is more than just legend.
The Bite
Independent / Action / Horror
The world has been ravaged by a disease called The Bite — a virus that turns people into blood thirsty vampire. Nick Hazzard is a man who lost his wife to the disease and vows to destroy every bloodsucker he comes across.
Madness of Many
Horror / Gore
Victoria is a woman who has suffered throughout her entire life. She was tortured as child by her parents, and then as an adult, she is abducted and tortured. This new horror that has befallen on Victoria will change her in ways she couldn't imagine.
Within Madness
Independent / Horror / Drama
Donovan Summers, a seemingly normal man, begins creating a series of video diaries where he talks about his life, his past, and the darkness within his mind that he tries to keep hidden. Slowly, the walls of Donovan's psyche begin to crumble and he is consumed by his madness.
Shadow Zombie
Independent / Drama / Horror
In the slums of Lafayette is Kim; a pot-dealer who likes to write poetry and snort painkillers even though he still lives with his father. Kim also enjoys wandering the town as his alternate persona — Shadow Zombie. While walking through the suburbs one night, Kim meets Brandi; a student nurse and part-time clown. These two characters form an unlikely bond but their dark pasts may drive them apart.
James of the Tree
Short / Experimental / Comedy / Drama
During a period of mourning, James is pursued up a tree by angry man armed with a sword. Time loses all meaning as the two men stand-off.
Set Fire to the Stars
Drama / Comedy
Academic instructor, John Malcolm Brinnin, appeals to a committee to bring famous Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, to America and put him on a literary tour. Dylan's volatile nature proves to be more than what Brinnin can bare, so he takes Dylan to a remote cabin in an attempt to get him ready for his tour. The next few days together prove to be challenging and life affirming for both men.
The Antwerp Dolls
Independent / Crime / Thriller / Drama
Tommy Callaghan, a ruthless businessman, sends out two of his most loyal couriers to retrieve a special package. However, Callaghan's tactics have earned him a considerable number of enemies who all have devised their own plans to intercept this mysterious package. It isn't before long an all out war is waged on streets.
The Republic of Rick
Comedy / Mockumentary
Rick Launer, the self-proclaimed President of The Republic of Texas, is a man who dreams about the independence of Texas and its separation from the United States. When he's not busy ruining Alamo reenactments, or attending rallies that support his beliefs, Rick picks fights with his mailman — who Rick believes is invading his land. However, the latest fight gets out of hand, quickly, and Rick soon finds himself standing off against the US government.
The Midnight Swim
Drama / Mystery / Horror
After their mother's death from drowning in the lake near her home, sisters Annie, Isa, and June, who comes with camera in hand, reunite to mourn their lost. During their stay, bizarre things begin to happen — birds around the property are dying and June's camera frequently captures images of the lake when no one is operating it. They begin to speculate whether or not the occurrences come from the legends surrounding the mysterious lake, or if it's something from their past that's come creeping back into their lives.
Meet Me There
Independent / Drama / Horror
While in couple's counseling, Ada and her boyfriend, Calvin, realize that she has no memory of her childhood and seems to have blocked it entirely. Believing this might be the reason for the lack of intimacy in their relationship, they set out to visit Ada's hometown in hopes of finding some answers. What they actually discover is terrifying and may prevent them from leaving the town alive.
Satan's Coming For You
Short / Crime / Horror
After digging up a body from a graveyard, two satanic serial killers trip out on acid and meet the Devil himself.
The Attic Expeditions
After waking up from a coma, Trevor finds himself in the care of Dr. Ek — a psychiatrist who plans to conduct an unorthodox form of treatment for his new patient. Trevor is eventually placed in a halfway house with strange psychos, and once there, he begins to have nightmarish hallucinations and loses all grip on reality. His salvation and the answers he seeks seems to be hidden away inside a trunk in the secret attic of the halfway house.
Stephanie wanders the streets after losing another job and doesn't have enough money to call home. Naively she decides to accept a ride from a middle-aged man who takes her back to his place where she's drugged, kept prisoner, and forced into prostitution.
Detective Jack Fox's early retirement is put on hold when a lunatic in a pumpkin mask starts hacking up the young people of Salem. Against his wishes, he's forced to team up with Steve Ryan — Fox's replacement. The brutality of the killings soon prove to be too much for not only Fox, but Ryan as well.
Action / Crime
The Redeemer listens to the prayers of people who have been harmed, and he seeks out the people responsible and makes sure to give them an even worse fate. Why this mysterious man does this, only he knows.
American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore
Horror / Gore / Mockumentary
Two young women are abducted off the streets and taken to unknown location. There, they are given a drug that renders them unable to move yet remain full conscious as they are systematically tortured to death.
Documentary / Music
In 2006 a metal band from Finland that dressed in monster costumes, known as "Lordi", won the finale of Eurovision Song Contest. The band grew large in Europe over a short period of time and they took their success for granted. Soon, people were over them and their records were largely ignored. This is a documentary that looks into that period of the band Lordi and the lead man.
We Are Still Here
Horror / Supernatural
A woman and her husband move to a large, old house in New England soon after the death of their son. Everyone in town seems to take note that someone is moving into that particular house, and the family will soon learn why. It has been 30 years since a horrible event occured, and it is time for whatever is sleeping to wake up again.
Independent / Drama / Comedy
Dirty Fred and Bruho have decided to live their lives as squatters as they know that the world will eventually go to hell anyway. They go from vacation home to vacation home and break into them to find everything they need: food, supplies, bathroom, alcohol and random cool stuff. If they can find a place to stay at - great! If not, then they are soon on foot onto the next place.
Independent / Comedy / Horror
A young couple, grieving the loss of their son, end up ordering a cabinet from a strange pop-up ad while browsing the internet. After assembling the cabinet, they awake to find a mysterious creature inside and decide to raise it as their own.
Blood Cousins
Independent / Comedy / Horror
On the anniversary of their grandmother's death, four cousins decide to get together in order to pay respects at her grave. The road trip is plagued by a dark cloud that hangs over the head of the cousins that's brought on by the family dark past. A past that's been hidden from the cousins until now.
Forbidden Empire
Fantasy / Adventure / Horror / Drama
Jonathan Green, a cartographer, sets out across Eastern Europe in the name of science. However, he eventually finds himself trapped in a small isolated village in the Ukraine where the people are crippled by superstitious fear. Even though Jonathan chooses to believe in science, he will begin to question his faith as he discovers that hidden within this village is the embodiment of pure evil.
Pain Shack
Independent / Comedy / Horror
When Alex attempts to become an internet celebrity on Youtube through music reviews, he ends up becoming obsessed with a fellow Youtuber and begins to transform into a twisted persona. Will Alex ever become an internet star, or will his mind snap before he gets to?
Fantasy / Horror
Jessica has been haunted by vivid nightmares ever since she was a kid. She has now found an interest in trying to interpret the dreams to see what causes them. After the death of her grandmother, she returns to her childhood home where her mother and stepfather lives, and the nightmares are amping up worse than ever before. She's suspects it might be something in her family.
Horror / Thriller
There are rumors of a panther roaming the moors in a small place in north Devon. Georgia and Matt travel there from US to photograph the animal with help from a tracking expert. When they reach the right location, they find dead bodies that seem to have been killed by something else.
Anthology / Horror / Comedy
Eight filmmakers known for shooting movies on a video formate have created eight short films for a new anthology that celebrates shot-on-video movies.
Liars, Fires and Bears
Independent / Drama / Comedy
9-year-old Eve is unhappy with the life she has with her foster parents, and after a chance encounter with Dave, a thirty-something man-child who's refused to grow up, Eve sees an opportunity to be reunited with her absent brother. When an incident causes Dave to go on the run from the law, Eve uses Dave's misfortune as an excuse to be taken on a cross-country road-trip.
Out of One's Misery
Short / Thriller / Psychological
Late one night, David is mourning the death of his wife and daughter when a stranger knocks on the door. The stranger is looking for his own wife and daughter, both which have been gone for three days.
Short / Thriller / Psychological
A serial killer is being harassed by his own phobia of blood after the death of his latest victim. He finds himself trapped with his own weakness, as blood will soon have him surrounded.
Short / Drama
Damla wants to go through the belongings of her dead parents and move on, but her brother seems to not want to face what has happened. When he tells Damla to stop bugging him, he'll soon realize how important it is to stay together.
A Pregnancy (A Very Serious Movie)
Independent / Short / Comedy
Janyce is pregnant with Leonard's baby, but all he wants to do is spend time with his band. This throws the family into a spiral of drama.
Miss Zombie
Drama / Thriller / Horror
Zombies are used as helpers around the homes. As long as they eat vegetables and fruit, not meat, they stay calm and helpful. A family in Japan receives their zombie servant, a young woman, and slowly but surely her relationship with the family is starting to change their lives.
The Slashening
Independent / Comedy / Horror
On the night of 5 girls' sleepover, a psychotic murderer is on the loose, killing their pizza delivery men and eventually the friends find themselves hunted as well.
The Devil's Hand
Thriller / Horror / Supernatural
Inside an Amish community, a prophecy states that one out of six girls born on the 6th day in the 6th month will become the devil's hand. The six girls are born as had been foretold, and when they're coming into adulthood the evil is starting to reveal itself.
Comforting Skin
Independent / Drama / Horror
Lonely and depressed, Koffie searches for a connection and finds one when the tattoo on her shoulder comes to life. As unrealistic as it seems, the once terrified Koffie begins to form a bond with the tattoo and finds the happiness that she's yearned for. Soon her newfound relationship turns deadly as that tattoo slowly takes control of Koffie.
Valley of the Sasquatch
Horror / Thriller
A son and his father move out to a cabin in the woods a few weeks after the death of his mother. The two are struggling to keep their relationship, and theirselves, strong but are hoping to cope better when they get away from everything. The mother's brother, and a friend of the father, come to visit too - which only leads to more disturbance among the relationships. But worse than all, there is a tribe consisting of something big, hairy and angry out in the woods.
"Tales of the Dim" Press Release
Animator F. Sudol ("City of Rott") has a new web series called: "Tales of the Dim". Inspired by such series as "The Outer Limits" and "Tales from the Darkside"; F. Sudol offers a new tale of macabre with each episode with his new show.
watch the first two episodes of "Tales from the Dim" CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE PRESS RELEASE and to also find out more about the series, and other projects in the works from F. Sudol.
Late Phases
A blind war vet moves to a quiet little place where he hopes to be able to get some peace. It doesn't stay peaceful for long, as the population is brutally murdered one after one. The veteran takes it upon himself to put an end to it, but there is something hungry behind the murders.
These Final Hours
Drama / Thriller / Sci-fi
The end of the world is near and James is set on going to the ultimate party where everyone he knows is waiting - except for his girlfriend. On his way he meets a young girl in need of rescue. He brings her with him in attempt to find her father, and the relationship will soon make him regret his decisions.
The ABCs of Death 2
Anthology / Horror
Another 26 filmmakers come together to create 26 films about death that relates to the letters of the alphabet.
Horror / Romance / Sci-fi
Life is not going as planned for Evan, so he decides to leave America and move to Italy. In Italy he falls in love with a girl on first sight and he keeps running into her - eventually she agrees to go on a date with him. Things are great between them, but the more time he spends with her, the more he understands that the girl he loves is hiding an otherworldly secret.
What We Do in the Shadows
Comedy / Horror
A camera team follows a group of vampires who live together under the same roof in the modern society, where they struggle with the same issues as everyone else - boredom, paying rent, conflicting thoughts, and just keeping away from trouble. When an actually modern man is turned into a vampire and moves in with them, things are not quite as they used to be.
A Good Marriage
After celebrating their 25 year anniversary, the Anderson's find themselves in a marriage crisis. When her husband is away for a few days, Darcy starts suspecting that he is connected to the deaths of several women - and he is soon home from his trip.
The Eternal Return of Antonis
Independent / Drama / Comedy
Antonio Paraskeva was once a major television personality but his fame has slowly been waning over the years. Not willing to give up the spotlight so easily, Antonis stages his own kidnapping in order to rekindle his media popularity. However, his world begins to collapse while keeping himself isolated in an abandoned hotel as he discovers the harsh reality of what it means to be a celebrity and the price of fame.
Forty Years From Yesterday
Independent / Drama
Bruce comes home after his morning run to discover that his wife of 40 years had passed away. Grief quietly works its way through Bruce and his family as they try and come to terms with their loss.
Schoolgirl Report vol. 6
Sexploitation / Mockumentary / Comedy / Drama
In this sixth installment of the "Schoolgirl Report" series, we dive deeper into the wild world of the sex lives of young women in contemporary Germany. Watch as a female student tries to seduce her provocative female teacher. What happens when boys are fed up with school's Tomcat bedding all the girls. Understand what's it like to be a window-washer at a school with a flirtatious student body. All of these shocking stories and many more!
Schoolgirl Report vol. 5
Sexploitation / Mockumentary / Comedy / Drama
The heart and the loins of young women is a wild and untamed world where the woman discover and explore their budding sexuality. The notorious "Schoolgirl Report" series is back for a fifth volume to see what it is that young women desire.
City of Rott 2
Independent / Animation / Action / Horror
It's been eight years since the world was decimated by the Rott Worm Plague and survivors are still fighting for their lives, everyday, in the City of Rott. Two of those survivors, Harry and Max, team up to retrieve a possible cure for the skinworm infection that Max suffers from. The problem is that the cure might be hidden in a UFO that crashed in the city. However, with the tyrant, D'Vower, wanting the ship for himself, as well as a mysterious masked figure only known as Zivouhr, zombies are the least of Harry and Max's problems.
Pizza Girl Massacre
Independent / Comedy / Horror
In 2013, a theater troupe is preparing to put on a production of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". With the play taking place in a forest, the group decides that renting a cabin will aid in their rehearsal by allowing the actors to capture the feeling of the story and their characters. A documentary crew is on hand to record the group's process but when a scorned pizza delivery girl starts picking people off, one-by-one, the footage captured will be the only thing that survives.
Love in the Time of Monsters
Independent / Comedy / Horror
Fifteen years after a family vacation took a horrifying turn when they were children, sisters Marla and Carla are heading up to Uncle Slavko's All-American Family Lodge for their first official vacation since that incident. They're also planning on surprising Carla's fiancé, Johnny, who recently took a job playing as Bigfoot at the lodge to entertain guests. However, the dumping of toxic waste in the water supply causes Johnny, and other costumed employees, to become savage mutants who are dressed as Bigfoot. Now Marla and Carla, and the few remaining survivors, must fight for their lives against the flesh-hungry Bigfoot wannabes.
Video Nasties: Draconian Days
The follow-up to the 2010 documentary "Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape" about the video nasties era in UK covers the time that came after it where movies were heavily edited under the power of the head of the BBFC at the time, James Ferman.
Der Samurai
Horror / Thriller / Fantasy
A wolf is bothering the locals of a small German village. Jakob is a young police officer who feeds the wolf so that it will leave them alone. One day Jakob receives a strange package that was sent to the station. He's about to find out who the package is for, and what's in the package, and it's the start of an unbelievably violent night.
All Cheerleaders Die
Comedy / Horror
When a cheerleader dies a tragic death and a slot opens up in the squad, an outsider girl attempts becoming a cheerleader to take down the captain of the football team. But once she has gotten into the group, she and the other cheerleaders are in an accident that takes a supernatural turn...
Independent / Sci-fi / Thriller
Two survivors wander the desolate wastelands after the apocalypse. They're suspicious of each other but seem to be in a mutual agreement in their silence.
The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
A documentary about Joseph W. Sarno, his wife, his life in making porn and sexploitation and his attempt in making one last film.
The Conspiracy
Thriller / Drama / Horror / Mockumentary
A documentary is made about conspiracy theories involving the government. When the main subject of the documentary disappears, the filmmakers decide to investigate further and they find a secret society.
You Can't Kill Stephen King
Horror / Comedy
Instead of your typical vacation spot, a couple of friends decide to spend their fun summer in the town where horror author Stephen King lives - much to the joy of the King fanatic of the bunch. Upon their arrival they meet one strange person after another and they all seem to love the peaceful, quiet little town a little too much.
Horror / Thriller
Novella McClure is a 30-something struggling actress in L.A. who never gets a part, is always confused as a porn actress due to her name and is completely out of money. To cope with her depressing life she has developed a habit of eating lose bits of skin from her fingers, and the habit grows into something a lot more disturbing than a minor bad habit.
Young Playthings
Sexploitation / Drama
Gunilla stays with her friend Nora for a couple of days while her man is away. Her friend wants her to join her and a guy in a threesome, but instead Gunilla visits Nora's toy resorting neighbor. The neighbor shows Gunilla her odd erotic performances and soon she's part of her perverted games.
Gun Woman
Action / Thriller / Exploitation
A doctor seeks revenge after the death of the love of his life. To execute his plan, he trains a young woman to be his weapon. He implants a gun into her body and sends her to a place where his target spends time, for her to rip out the gun out of her body and kill the target.
Fires on the Plain
Independent / Drama / War
At the tail end of World War II, Tamura's company are located in the Philippines attempting their retreat. Tamura is sick from tuberculosis and is of no help to his company, and the hospital refuses to take him in. Taruma wanders the jungle back and forth between the camp and the hospital, but is eventually left on his own to survive.
Independent / Documentary
After the remake of "Dawn of the Dead", Kyle Kuchta got into horror movies - and shortly after he got into horror conventions. Now he lives and breathes horror, and has decided to make a short documentary about the conventions he visits.
Under Gottsunda
Follow the lives of a couple of teenagers in Gottsunda, Sweden, as they hang out with their friends, ponder their life's big questions, and try to find themselves.
All Hell Breaks Loose
Exploitation / Horror / Comedy
Nick's honeymoon is interrupted by the biker gang, Satan's Sinners, and when his bride, Bobby Sue, is abducted he will stop at nothing to get her back. Even if it means dying, repeatedly, at the hands of these bikers from hell. With some divine intervention, Nick has to find a way to get the girl and save the day before all hell breaks loose.
Cannibal Diner
Kati is getting together with her friends to throw a birthday party for her sister, Celine. The group decided to make it special by going camping out in the woods. The festivities come to an end when a group of crazed cannibalistic killers residing in an abandoned factory start picking the girls off one by one.
Greatful Dead
Drama / Thriller / Comedy
Nami is a loner with a troubled background. She now spends her days by spying on strange, lonely and misunderstood people who she refers to as "Solitarians". One day she discovers an old man who lives alone, and she becomes obsessed with him.
Drama / Thriller
A mother and wife seeks revenge when she sees her husband cheating on her. She walks into his room at night to get rid of the problem, but he wakes up just in time to stop her. As things calm down, or so he thinks, she walks into her son's room and takes out the revenge on him instead.
Independent / Horror / Crime / Sci-fi
After a heist, Crystal and Kim escape to a small town in an attempt to stay low. But there is someone else there to make life hard. His name is Frank, and he's a man with a long history in nazism, and he is trying to find a powerful relic. When Crystal crosses paths with Frank, she has to decide whether she should give in - or fight.
Hully Gully
Independent / Drama / Comedy
A couple exchange sometimes mundane, sometimes poetic discussions between each other, while going about their days at home.
Into the Dark
Short / Independent / Drama / Sci-fi
In the future, two criminals are sent in two capsules connected by their backs, from the Moon to Earth as punishment for their crimes. We follow their last intimate minutes before the capsules hit the Earth's atmosphere.
Le Fear 2: Le Sequel
Independent / Comedy
Carlos Revalos returns to create a big buget sequel to "Le Fear", but the results will be just as miserable. The first warning sign is that the shooting locations turns out to be a shoddy caravan.
Short / Independent / Drama
Boy meets girl. The aftermath shows us a confused man who sits in his tub, wondering all the important thoughts about his meeting with the girl. Who is she, and how does she feel about him?
The Haunted Trailer
Independent / Comedy
The trailer of a family of hicks becomes haunted after an evil demon is released from an ancient mask. The family have to fight off his ancient, poop-filled powers with the help of a TV evangelist.
Horror / Sci-fi
A team of hackers has been sent to work on a spaceship, but they end up in the midst of a computer's psychological games and are slowly turning on each other. The artificial intelligence is yearning to become a human.
(Posted: 28 December 2014)
It has been a great year for movies, so putting together a list of our 30 favorites was especially hard, but like always we pulled it off beautifully! In our list we have everything from a huge blockbuster to experimental erotica. We are judgemental pricks, but if we like something then it belongs on our list. We hope that this year's list will help you find some great movies to watch in 2015.
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Horror / Thriller
A family goes on vacation to their cabin. In their absence someone else has been living in their cabin and made a mess, but they have no idea who it might be. But whatever has been there, is still around somewhere, waiting for the right moment to strike.
Graduation Day
Horror / Slasher
High school track runner Laura drops dead from a heart attack on the finishing line, just a short while prior to their graduation. Her sister comes home for graduation day to honor her sister, but she'll also witness the deaths of Laura's track runner school mates when a crazy murderer is on the loose. Are the death connected, and who is behind them?
Bank Roll
Independent / Comedy / Crime / Drama
Six friends plan a heist to disorient the cops who have arrested the brother of one of the friends, in attempt to clear his name. The problem is that they have no idea how to rob a bank, and they only have a few days to pull it off.
The Frame
Science Fiction / Fantasy / Drama
Alex is a young man working as a cargo thief for the cartel. Sam is a young woman who works as a paramedic. They each keep to themselves and only have their televisions to keep them company. Suddenly, Sam and Alex find themselves being able to communicate to each other through their TV -- each other thinking the other person is only an actor from their favorite TV shows. With their separate worlds now intersecting, Sam and Alex both must find out what this means before their own realities are torn apart.
Not of this Earth
Science Fiction / Horror
Paul Johnson is an alien who has come to earth in order to find a cure for the plague that is wiping out his own kind. There's hope to be found in the blood of humans, and in order to stay alive while trying to find his cure, he must drain the blood from his victims and take it as his own. However, he needs the aid of a human nurse to implement the blood transfusions and so Amanda Sayles is hired to be Mr. Johnson's live-in nurse. While in his home, Amanda becomes suspicious of her employer and soon she accidentally uncovers the terrifying truth.
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Comedy / Action / Crime / Splatter
Ten years after the wife of a yakuza boss kills his feuding clans members, she's finally coming out of prison. The two yakuza clans are in the middle of another feud and a group of independent filmmakers get tied into it, to make the film of their lives. This is so that the wife will get to see her young actress daughter in her debut feature when she comes out.
Open Windows
Thriller / Action / Crime
Famous actress Jill Goddard is giving a contest winning fan a chance to have dinner with her after a Q&A, but the fan's night will turn into a nightmare when a man calls him and tells him that she changed the plans. But who is the man on the phone? The fan becomes a device in a mad man's obsessive game surrounding the famous actress.
Boo Demon vs. La Cerveza de Muerte (Beer of Death)
Independent / Comedy / Crime / Experimental
Super Villain is on a quest to change hipster's drinking habits, from cheap beer to a more expensive beer.
In Darkness We Fall
Horror / Thriller
Five friends take a trip to an island. After a night of drinking and doing drugs, they stumble upon a cave nearby. As the hangover is coming to an end, they decide to venture into the darkness of the cave. Once they're lost and claustrophobia and dehydration combine, they will become their own worse enemy.
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
Giallo / Horror / Erotic
Returning home from a trip, Dan Kristensen discovers his wife has gone missing and there appears to be no sign of a struggle or foul play. To find his wife, Dan has to go on a psychosexual journey where the tenants of the apartment building know more than they appear to and add more pieces to this already bizarre puzzle. He has to uncover the lurid and murderous history of his building, before he becomes the next victim of this unidentified killer.
Faust 2.0
Horror / Anthology
The evils of modern technology are portrayed in 5 short stories about phone apps gone wrong. From plots of war to perverted sex acts, the short shows a new side to our obsession with apps.
Horror / Anthology
While waiting for a late bus, a group of strangers start telling each other stories from their nightmares. One by one they try to one-up each other with their stories, but it's when the bus arrives that they all seem to be on the losing side...
Pennsylvania Holy Ghosts
Independent / Drama / Comedy
After the passing of his wife, Theodore tries to maintain a sense of normalcy but as the life he once had begins to crumble away he decides to reach out to his grandson, Clair, who is having trouble of his own. Facing a dead end life, Clair's girlfriend leaves him and while Theodore attempts to mend the broken relationship the two to of them have, their paths cross those of Renee, a troubled teen, and Donald, a form TV star who's now a homeless drug addict.
Ed and His Dead Mother
Even though she's been dead for over a year now, Ed can't seem to move on with his life without his mother. Fate intervenes in the form of a fast, smooth-talking salesman from Happy People Corporation who promises Ed that, for a small fee, he can bring his mother back from the dead. Skeptical, Ed agrees to the deal, and is shocked to find his mother has returned home the next. Although something isn't right about his mother. Something seems…off. Things take an even stranger turn as Ed begins a relationship with his sexy neighbor and his mother is none too pleased with that idea and begins to lash out. Violently.
Stomping Ground
Independent / Drama / Comedy / Horror
While living in Chicago, Ben and Annie take a trip to Annie's hometown in North Carolina. Upon their arrival, Ben is met with some hostility by Annie's friends and families due to him having grown up and lived in the city his entire life, while Annie has been more of a wilderness kind of gal. When they run into Annie's oldest friend, Paul, down at the local bar, and Ben finds out that Annie has kept a secret from him: she believes in Bigfoot. These leads to an impromptu camping trip with Paul, Annie, Ben and Jed as they search for Sasquatch. However, after becoming lost, the group begins to suspect that there might something in the woods with them. Watching. Waiting.
Pizza Shop: The Movie
Independent / Comedy
At Pizza Shop, the employees hate their job but they love tormenting the customers. Everyone except veteran delivery driver, Pete. His fellow Pizza Shop employees hate Pete's sunny disposition and belief in customer satisfaction that they decide to try and get him to quit. After a prank goes terribly wrong, the battle line is drawn. Head-slacker and Pete's arch rival, Jason, face off to not only see who the better man is but who gets to stay at the Pizza Shop.
The Gays
Independent / Comedy
Rod and Bob Gay-Paris are a gay couple trying to raise their two gay sons, Alex and Tommy, in a more open manner rather than using traditional parenting skills. They try to mentor their children on the ins and outs of gay culture: when and how to toss another man's salad, having sex in a public bathroom and even how gay couples give birth.
Mai Lin vs. Serena
Adult / Comedy
Porn stars Mai Lin and Serena are fighting to get a role in Carlos Tobalina's upcoming movie, but he can't decide between the two. He puts them through a sexual challenge to see who is the best candidate. The porn stars venture out to find people to have some crazy sex with.
An Act of Confession
A young woman who has taken a vow and chastity and is on her way to become a nun explores her most perverse fantasies.
Birth of the Living Dead
In 1968, a small group of independent filmmakers from Pittsburgh set out to make a horror movie about the dead coming back to life and eating the flesh of the living. This is the story how the legendary "Night of the Living Dead" came to be.
Touch Me
Adult / Drama
In a experiment, a doctor tells a group of people with sexual problems to undress and start touching each other with closed eyes. Drama rises among the group, but everyone is there for a reason after all - sex.
The Devil's Business
Horror / Crime / Thriller / Supernatural
Two hitmen arrive at the house of their target, ready to wait for him to come home from a show before they put a bullet into his head. In the target's absence, they stumble upon what can only be described as the rests of a black magic ritual. Soon the wait is over and the hitmen become the victims themselves.
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Comedy
Flappy the clown is having a hard time getting jobs when he and his friend come up with a masterplan: he should go to a parties where they are expecting a stripper, and become notorious. Vulgar the clown is born. But the first home visit turns bad when he finds himself in the midst of a messed up family that ends up brutally gang-raping him.
Short / Independent / Horror
Edward's cousin Berenice is coming to visit the family. Edward is quick to remember some time spent with his cousin in the past, but he can't even begin to fathom what it's going to be like when she returns and they get to clear up some unfinished business.
Mourning Has Broken
Independent / Comedy / Drama
A husband awakes one morning to find that his terminally ill wife had passed away during the night. With his whole world shattered, he sets out to complete a list of errands and chores left behind by his wife in an attempt to deal with his loss. Unfortunately, with a feeling of nothing left to live for, he begins to lash out at the world around him and do things he never thought of doing before.
Short / Mystery / Thriller / Horror
William's walking home at night when he meets two drunk women who are in need of his assistance. He has to decide if he wants to ignore them, or take the "witches' path" and follow them. His decision might prove to be more important than he ever imagined.
Stalking Miss Barlow
Short / Independent / Horror
Horror movie actress Miss Barlow finds herself bothered by fans while shooting her new movie. Her last feature film, "Conjoined", seems to have really have gotten to certain people, and she's soon stalked by someone who wants her to himself.
This year we find ourselves to be in a particular festive spirit for Halloween. We had originally only planned on only making our A '90s Halloween list but we decided to pick ten favorite movies from the long-time purveyors of b-movie schlock, Full Moon. While Charles Band may not be everyone's favorite producer of low-budget entertainment, he and his company, Full Moon, have been providing a number of enjoyable b-movies.
The Late Men
Independent / Crime / Thriller / Sci-fi
In a run-down future Ireland, the lives of several individuals are changing. It's a time where rape, murder and senselessness is followed more closely than the laws of the past. The darker sides of humanity has revealed themselves as we follow the personal stories of the three.
Retard Abortion
Short / Independent / Exploitation
When a prostitute realizes that a client got her pregnant, she goes to a mask-wearing man she calls "Retard" for help.
Drama / Thriller / Horror / Comedy
After being chased out of his underground lair in the forest, Camiel Borgman comes across the house of Richard and Marina. After attempting to gain access to their home in order to take a bath and get some food, Richard savagely beats Camiel. Feeling remorseful, Marina eventually grants Borgman his request after Richard has left for his job. Shortly after, Borgman begins to not only manipulate Marina, but her children and the live-in nanny as well. The more this mysterious vagrant weaves himself into the lives of this family, the more he deconstructs the home and the comfortable life that that Marina and Richard had built.
Every decade is hailed as the best decade for film by someone out there. But certain decades get more love: '60s, '70s and '80s are especially hailed in horror. For good reason, they did spawn some of the most amazing horror movies ever made. But one decade that gets a lot of shit is the '90s. When people think of the '90s, they think of "Scream" and everything that got inspired by it. People think of filmmakers being in a limbo between the fun '80s and the self-aware late-'90s. A lot from the decade is indeed junk. Frankly though, the decade isn't that bad once you look just beyond that, and we think people need to be reminded of that. It seems like an elitist thing to disregard the '90s, proving that you know where real horror came from, but let's put all of that aside. To prepare for Halloween, we decided to put together a list of 20 of our favorites from the decade.
Independent / Drama / Comedy
Marty is a broke intern who survives through his small money scams. When he pulls a bigger scam than usually on his job, a bank, he has to flee the town. He hides in Detroit and he only brought the most important items - involving his Power Glove and the clothes on his back.
Drama / Thriller / Romance
Amy is an artist who spends her spare time dressed in a costume so that she can feel like someone else. Her past has screwed up her view of men and now she's attempting to get through the traumas.
Silent Retreat
A young woman named Janey is sent to a special "retreat" after she is charged with assault. As part of her release program, she is sent to an isolated rehabilitation center that uses silence and meditation to help wayward women reform to fit in with society better. Janey, along with fellow prisoner, Alexis, discover the dark and terrifying secrets behind the facility. However, escape isn't so easy as there seems to be something equally terrifying residing in the woods surrounding them.
Science, Sex and the Ladies
Documentary / Comedy
Have you ever wondered what the female orgasm really is? How it is achieved? Why some get it frequently but others don't? If you have many big, time-consuming thoughts around the female orgasm, clitoris, vagina, vulva or whatever else is around the area, there is now a documentary to help you find the answers you seek.
Giuseppe Makes a Movie
Former child actor Giuseppe Andrews has grown up to be a highly creative soul, making bizarre underground movies in the trailer park where he grew up. Join him on his two-day journey as he tries to make "Garbanzo Gas" with his good friends from the trailer park - such as neighbours and the homeless.
The Device
Horror / Sci-fi / Thriller
The death of a mother reunites two sisters after being away from each other for a very long time. They take a trip to a cabin where they have a unresolved past, along with the boyfriend of one of them, to spread the ashes of their mother on a lake. Here they find a strange black ball which seems to contain something strange. Something that is out to harm them, and whatever it is they are bringing it back home with them.
The Slayers: Portrait of a Dismembered Family
Independent / Horror / Mockumentary / Drama
Media scapegoat Patrick Slayer claims his father and his family members killed the girl he's being accused for, saying that he was forced to film the murder. Through interviews we get his side of the story, and finally we witness the truth in what they shot.
Dirty Bill of Health
Short / Mystery / Comedy / Horror
During a road trip, a strange young man makes an impromptu after-hours appointment with a local doctor. It appears to be a standard check-up but both the patient and the doctor are standoffish to one another. Both men appear to be hiding something -- the question is who will reveal their true self first.
Cry for Cindy
Adult / Drama
Anna becomes a prostitute and changes her name to Cindy. She loves her job and can't get enough, and even decides to break up with her boyfriend for it. This changes drastically when she starts working for a greedy pimp, and she decides to commit suicide. At the funeral, her friends remember all the good times they've had with her.
Massacre at Femur Creek
Short / Comedy / Horror / Slasher
To celebrate a birthday, three friends head out into the woods to party with alcohol and drugs. It becomes clear that the friends are not alone when they're visited by a knife-wielding maniac.
Journey To Mt. Fuji
Independent / Sci-fi / Experimental / Drama
Mozzman, a strange alien man-like being with silver skin, takes a journey to Mt. Fuji to save his friend Kitakitsune. On his journey he starts puzzling together pieces of long forgotten memories.
Captain Z & The Terror of Leviathan
Independent / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror
In the 18th century, the mighty pirate Captain Zachariah Zicari saved mankind from evil forces by keeping the wrong people away from an amulet. When the amulet turns up again in 2014, Captain Z travels into the future - our present - to yet again protect the world.
Short / Experimental / Thriller
In a secluded cabin in the snowy forest, a woman is enjoying her morning with some coffee to warm herself up. Suddenly she hears a loud rattling noise from outside and goes out to check what it is...
Short / Experimental / Arthouse
Dream meets reality when a woman takes a pill and finds herself catches on fire.
Let's Make a... Horror Movie
Independent / Experimental / Thriller / Horror
Underground filmmaker Michael Todd Schneider and his film crew consisting of friends are desperately trying to make their dream project come through. On their journey trying to make the '70s throwback movie "...And Then I Helped" they stumble through a number of problems, ultimately ending in disaster.
Still Water
Short / Independent / Thriller
On a rooftop in Singapore, a woman is attending her little garden. In a window above her, a neighbor is watching her through his camera. When the woman brings a man home, a darker side of herself comes out.
Massacre Lake
Short / Horror
Many years after the massacre of Native Americans by a lake, a family is visiting the same location on their vacation. What started as two parents' attempt to restore their relationship, ends in the hauntings of the past.
The VIEWSTER ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL is live!
Since the 11th of this month, horror and thriller fans have been enjoying shorts and features at the Viewster Online Film Festival - for free! Why don't you join in on the fun?
Want to watch the films of filmmakers such as Rob Carpenter ("Dirty Bill of Health", Pablo D'Stair ("A Public Ransom") and Kim Sønderholm ("Succubus")? This is your chance to get acquainted with their work, and the work of many, many others!
As an addition to that, THREE of Film Bizarro's own productions are part of the festival - so that leaves you no reason to skip out on it! You can now watch our films "Creature 2013", "Récompence" and "Regissören" at the festival.
We are especially happy that our most recent film, "Creature 2013" gets its premiere online showing at this wonderful festival. It's a completely shot-on-phone mash of retro-horror and arthouse drama, and one we're rather proud of.
Give the movies a watch, share them on Twitter and Facebook, and if you like them - give them a vote at the top right corner (wait for the timer - you'll need to register but no confirmation needed, so it's a quick process. Be sure to vote for at least 3 films you like for your vote to count!).
Our movies can be watched through the following links:
Creature 2013
We will also make sure to review a bunch of films from the festival in the upcoming days too (as we've already done with "Junk Bonds: The Return of Junkbucket").
Junk Bonds: The Return of Junkbucket
Independent / Comedy / Horror
Cassie Dailing was the lone survivor of the massacre that took place at Lake Pakajanomo. The deranged maniac that mutilated her friend's genitals and wore a bucket on his head was never caught and existed only as a myth. Now that a year has passed, the killings have started again and the killer now known as Junkbucket has assembled a family of cannibalistic rednecks and has a special surprise in-store for Cassie.
Schoolgirl Report vol. 4
Sexploitation / Mockumentary / Comedy / Drama
With the continued success of the "Schoolgirl Report" films, the filmmakers return with another volume to explore the wild lives of young women.
Schoolgirl Report vol. 3
Sexploitation / Mockumentary / Drama / Comedy
At a summer camp a group of girls are caught sneaking into the boy's dorm. This bit of controversy causes the remaining girls at the camp to discuss the good and bad things that have come with their sexual awakening and exchange their own personal stories.
Ich Hunger
Independent / Arthouse / Experimental / Comedy
In the small farming community in Frondenberg, there is a feral boy who lives in the woods and has an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Anyone who ventures into the forest will not be leaving alive. This problem raises the concerns of one Inspector Stefan Heckle who is on the case to prove the existence of this creature-boy and capture him alive. However, this creature-boy has more to worry about when a woodland fairy warns him that if he does not change his ways, he himself will be consumed by the evil darkness that inhabits the forest.
Short / Experimental / Drama / Erotic
Diane is a troubled young woman with an addictive personality. She is seeking helping from a psychotherapist who has his own technique to help her open up and fight her problems. She's sat in front of a camera, emptying her mind from her dark past, but this proves to push her over the edge.
The Upper Footage
Mockumentary / Drama / Crime / Thriller
Media was going nuts over the leaked footage of a teenager dying. The story went viral and a legendary filmmaker showed interest in buying the rights to the story. But then it all disappeared. This is the first time after the media outrage that the truth behind the death of a young woman is revealed. This footage documents her final hours as she follows a group of friends home.
Old Man
Independent / Documentary
This documentary takes us through the life of the Schneidkraut family, the cultural history of their home town and its last record store - owned by Andy Schneidkraut.
Lucifer's Angels
Independent / Horror
Strange things are going on in the Catskill Mountains, and a group of friends have planned to go there on a camping trip. Meanwhile two ghost hunters arrive at the location. It becomes apparant that what's lurking in these woods is far worse than a haunting, and it will lead to their gory demise.
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Independent / Drama / Thriller / Crime
A teenage outsider plans to avenge the murder of her sister. She did not have much contact with her sister anymore, but she needs to find the guilty and give the murderer a deserved sentence.
Schoolgirl Report vol. 2
Sexploitation / Mockumentary / Comedy / Drama
After the success of the first film, Friedrich von Thun has gathered a group of adults who wrote letters to the production company about their own experiences and stories about the sexuality of young women in Germany.
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Independent / Drama / Noir
Is it true that Leonard's wife has been married before? Is it true that Leonard is seeing someone behind her back? The paranoia if the relationship grows, and Leonard needs answers. But soon his wife suddenly disappears.
Schoolgirl Report vol. 1
Sexploitation / Mockumentary / Comedy / Drama
When a young female student is caught having sex with the bus driver during a field trip, an emergency meeting is called between parents and teachers to discuss what needs to be done. While most of the members of the board would like to see the young woman expelled, one member brings up the fact that there is a change occurring in modern German society amongst teenagers in regards to sex. Now the adults start exchanging various lurid stories they've heard about young women and their sexual exploits.
Point B
Independent / Sci-Fi / Comedy
After failing once again to obtain the funding needed to help get their clean energy machine running properly, Mark and Alan have reached the end of the line. While working on the machine, Mark, somehow, turns it from a clean energy source into a teleportation device. Before they can celebrate what could be the scientific discovery of a life time, Mark and Alan, along with Jason and Andrew, must try and avoid the disastrous consequences of their experimentations, mis-uses and letting word get out on their device.
Countess Dracula
Horror / Fantasy / Drama
Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy finds out that she's splitting a rather large inhertiance with her daughter. Upon discovering that bathing in the blood of women will make her younger, she comes up with a plan to fool the locals that she is, in fact, her daughter - meanwhile she has made sure that her real daughter is being kept hidden by a lonely fool. But turning young doesn't just change her looks, it makes a young man fall in love with her (and she in him). Now she's torn between her old, real self and the new found glory of youth.
Consider Us Even
Short / Horror
The sisters Amanda and Alexandra find themselves kidnapped and blindfolded by a masked man. The masked man begins to cut off the fingers off of one of the girls. Soon his motive for this horrific crime is revealed, and it proves to be very personal.
Howard the Duck
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-fi
Howard, a humanoid duck living on his duck planet, is suddenly sucked into space and travels on his recliner all the way to Earth, where he lands in the dumps of Cleveland. When he rescues a punk rocking singer chick from a gang, they get to know each other and find a friendship. Soon the government hears about this alien visitor and an unbelievable adventure is about to begin to keep Howard the Duck away from the wrong people, so that they can help him back home.
Escape From Hell
Exploitation / WIP / Adventure
In a prison camp deep in the rain forest, women are punished and tortured by a warden and his guards. The prison camp doctor is the only sane one there, but after witnessing the violence over and over again he goes for the bottle. When the inmates have had enough, they seek the doctor for help to escape.
The Machine
Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller
In the future, a cold war has broken out between China and Britain and Britain's Ministry of Defense has decided the best way to combat China's threat is in the development of artificial intelligence and androids. After his new assistant, Ava, is killed, Vincent decides to replicate her brain pattern and include it with the new AI technology to generate the first official android. Even though she was intended to be built as a weapon, Vincent develops a bond with The Machine as she tries to understand what it is to be human.
Squid Man
Independent / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama
After being fired from the Superhero Society, Squid Man finds himself unable to find employment, broke and living on his friend's couch. Spending his nights at the bar, Squid Man soon finds himself the subject for a superhero book being written by a local journalist. Slowly but surely, things appear to be picking up for Squid Man -- even finding what he thinks might be the love of his life. There is a dark cloud that hangs over Squid Man and just as soon as the former superhero finds himself flying high, he comes crashing back down.
Comedy / Horror
Simon and his son, Paul, return from Peru after discovering a tiny creature inside an ancient temple. Simon has to head out of town and leaves Paul in charge of watching over the creature but Simon's twin brother, Cecil, has plans of his own and kidnaps the monster. After being dismembered, the creature multiplies and regenerates. Now there are half a dozen of these vicious monsters on the loose and terrorizing a small town.
Cannibal Holocaust
Exploitation / Adventure / Horror
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a group of young documentary filmmakers disappear after a meeting with the cannibal tribes that they went there to document. A New York University professor takes on the mission to find them, but his rescue mission turns sour when he realizes that the filmmakers have became the food on the plate for the cannibal tribes. But he returns to New York with film reels of what they had shot, and what they discover on the reels is far worse than the fate they suffered to get it.
Q, smette di ricordare
Independent / Experimental / Drama / Comedy
After giving herself to the substance, Q wishes to escape the world that she finds herself in and return to her past and return to her former self. She is unable to escape her current fate as agents of the substance continue to manipulate her reality and when Q's pusher tries to to help her, she becomes trapped by a cinematic mad man who wants to torment Q for his latest filmmaking endeavor.
Independent / Drama / Thriller
Because of a scandal involving her son, Sandra is the center of attention in the media and she hates it. Her life is not seeing much joy and constantly being reminded of the scandal doesn't help. Now she's being interviewed about the whole thing and can't seem to keep her emotions straight.
K, smetted di fumare
Independent / Experimental / Noir / Sci-Fi / Comedy
After volunteering to be part of a program designed to get people to stop smoking, K is given an Account -- an android designed to look like a woman but exists to help K quit smoking. Even with an Account following him around, K continues to search for Eszter -- his love and the person responsible for stealing his pack of HB cigarettes -- and in his search for her, he comes across The Surgeon. A madman who is butchering women under the comand of the Anti-Smoke Centre. This discovery causes K to uncover the truth of the company and their diabolical intentions.
Strictly Sacred: The Story of Girl Trouble
In 1983, in the small town of Tacoma, a four piece band was put together by a group of people who just wanted to make music and that band was Girl Trouble. Thirty years later, Girl Trouble is still making music. "Strictly Sacred" explores the bands existence over the past three decades and their uncompromising DIY attitude.
Music / Experimental / Arthouse / Drama
Like a dream, dead memories flow across the screen, dealing with themes of life, death and loneliness - the past and the future.
Independent / Horror / Supernatural
In a desperate attempt to find her lost daughter, Sara applies for a job as a cleaner at a place where her daughter was supposedly lost. As she gets the job, she quickly learns that things are far from normal at her new work place, and the mystery of her lost daughter might be deeper than she ever could imagine.
Short / Independent / Horror
A couple go out to camp and bring a camera with them. But the camera won't be filming any sweet memories for them to enjoy in years to come, but instead it'll serve as a witness to their demise.
Machete Language
Independent / Drama
Ray and Ramona are regular activists in the political scene and were brought together by their mutual beliefs in both politics and love. Ray is becoming restless and frustrated with what is occurring in Salvador Atenco and wants to take his activism even further -- to extreme and violent levels. While Ramona remains hesitant, Ray's desire to do something drastic takes them both down a dark path that will do more than to question their relationship.
In the Fog
Drama / War
Set in 1942, the nazis have occupied Belarus and have captured a small group of railroad workers believing that they are part of the Partisan movement. All of the works are eventually executed, except for Sushenya. He is released and soon everyone believes he betrayed his own people in order to save his own life. Two men eventually come to Sushenya's home with plans on executing him but soon they find themselves depending on one another after a nazi ambush.
Honey Buns
Adult / Comedy
Harry is a man surrounded by women at work, but he's not in their radar due to his clumsiness and lack of charisma. When he is given a red pill by a man known as The Magician, his life is taking a turn. He gets all the women he wants, and all is going swell. Except that the women magically disappear once he gets too turned on.
The Chambermaids
In an attempt to spice up their work day and earn some extra cash, the hotel maids Mary Allen and Sally choose to have sex with the hotel's guests. Their innocent new "job" is a hit among the guests and they even get between a newly married couple.
Jumping In With Both Feet with Katie Groshong
Interview by: Preston
Originally, we were set to interview actress and producer, Katie Groshong, along side Jeff Wedding from "A Measure of the Sin" but we ended up splitting the two off and there is a good reason for that. With an amazing drive and determination, Katie Groshong is taking the independent film community head-on with her incredible talent, both in front of the camera and behind. While getting to know Katie and her adventurous spirit, it's easy to see why she is a fast up-and-coming name in independent cinema from working on such films as "A Measure of the Sin" and "Jug Face".
Invasion of the Space Preachers
Comedy / Sci-fi
What is happening in a small town in West Virginia when people seem completely braindead? Why it's an invasion of preachers from outer space, of course. Two friends happen to stumble upon one of the aliens and gets it on their side, but is that enough to end the horrific intergalactic evils that have fallen upon Earth?
Breeding Farm
Independent / Horror
When the partying is coming to a close, four girls end up being kidnapped. They wake up in a basement where a man is keeping them tied down until he needs them for his human breeding farm. These young girls are milked and bred...
Sin and the Art of Filmmaking with Jeff Wedding
Interview by: Preston
Even though the only work we've seen from Jeff Wedding is "A Measure of the Sin", it was such an interesting and beautifully shot film that it was instantly added to our Best of 2013 list. It's often an overused saying when it comes to film reviews, but you genuinely do not see movies like "A Measure of the Sin" anymore. With the film's impending release from BrinkVision, we decided to talk with unbelievably nice and generous, Jeff Wedding, to find out what it takes to make a movie like "A Measure of the Sin".
Independent / Science Fiction / Drama / Comedy
When people inexplicably stop dreaming, a company produces a product called Fantasites: a worm that crawls into the brain of people and allows them to produce dreams again. Charles, a socially awkward young man, wants the Fantasites so he can fulfill his desire of having a relationship with the girl of his dreams -- June, a young woman from his apartment complex. When Charles does begin to take the Fantasites, he soon finds himself tossed into a dark world where desires are replaced with addictions.
The Swimmer
Ned Merrill decides swim home, through every pool in an upper-class area. In his small everyday adventure he meets many familiar faces with which he has both laughs and confrontations, but he is also forced to face his destiny before he reaches home.
Her Name Was Torment
Independent / Horror / Extreme
27 bodies have been discovered. A young woman has been caught, guilty of murder, torture, mutilation, kidnapping and necrophilia. Through sessions a psychiatrist is struggling to find out what has motivated her to commit these horrible acts of crime. But as he tries to get her to open up, even bigger questions are raised.
Bloodsucking Freaks
Horror / Exploitation / Comedy
A magic show has hit town, a show that forces you to believe the unbelievable. Sardu has arrived with his Theatre of the Macabre, where victims are killed in front of an audience, but the audience has no idea! Some of the audience members make themselves heard during the show, and soon their lives are personally affected by the brutal Sardu. A football player starts an investigation on the theatre when his girlfriend unexpectedly joins the show.
Independent / Horror / Experimental
In a dreary and almost dead world, a man who makes his living by being an assassin is struggling to continue on with his ever-growing mental pains and disdain he has for his life and the world he lives in. He seeks help in the form of self-mutilation by driving nails into his head after reading an article about a man who did the same thing. The nails do more than relieve his pain though; they open his eyes to the world he lives in as if seeing it for the first time. This newly found vision brings him more anguish than he had before as he begins to see the nightmarish creatures that also populate this world.
Whatever Happened to Pete Blaggit?
Independent / Comedy / Science Fiction / Drama
Pete Blaggit has hit rock bottom; the videography business his father started is being phased out by modern technology, his wife has left him, nobody likes him and constantly battles his addiction to alcohol and pain pills. Truly things could not get any worse for Pete. Things could get stranger, however, and they do after Pete finds an alien in his ex-wife refrigerator. Soon Pete is suffering from delusions and is seeing things that might or might not be there and soon finds himself on a journey that bends the fabric of space and time. For Pete, he'll realize that there's no place like home.
Red Nights
Thriller / Crime / Horror
An artifact is being shipped from France to Hong Kong by a French woman named Catherine. In Hong Kong there's a dominatrix named Carrie who lures people into her chamber to kill. Carrie finds out that the artifact contains an elixir that blurs the lines between pain and pleasure and is ready to anything to get her hands on it. Catherine will be drawn into Carrie's psychosexual games before too long.
Bikini Swamp Girl Massacre
Independent / Horror / Comedy
A swamp in Florida becomes the vacation spot for a group of bikini babes. Little do they know that the legend of the Coo-Wah-Chobee spirit is real - and is stalking the swamp. But will these innocent ladies be able to beat this spirit, and is the tour guide as innocent as he seems? Or could it be that the took them to that very location for a reason?
Sodium Party
Independent / Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Claire's repressed, traumatic childhood comes back to her in flashes when she starts hanging out with Danny, a photographer, and start to go to parties and take drugs. When the memories come back to her, her entire reality comes crashing down.
Raising Yowie Awareness with Travis Bain
Interview by: Ronny
While we're not very familiar with the work of Travis Bain, his upcoming film "Throwback" is one that have been exicitng us. We love the movies it's inspired by and the general subgenre (bigfoot horror) is just extremely fun. Even when done bad! As we're so excited for his film, why not try and motivate other people to look out for it? What we found out with this interview is that Travis Bain is a man with a very good taste in film and respectable ambitions. Enjoy!
Independent / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Ten women have been tricked to visit a house on Spektor Island, believing they were going on a business trip. They're all of different occupations and quickly realize that someone has been lying to them. When statues and images of pigs begin to show up all over the large house, they're suspecting something strange. Thoughts of the supernatural are brought up, and soon one of them is found dead.
Drama / Arthouse
The beautiful model Vienna is doing a series of nude photography sessions with amateur photographer Allan, a middle-aged man who just discovered the arts. Her boyfriend, a rude, misogynistic musician, doesn't like Allan but Vienna is really enjoying the art they make. Vienna's new partnership is the beginning of the crash of their lives.
Run Run It's Him!
A young man studies his own porn addiction. He starts shooting a documentary about himself where he goes through his life of discovering porn and his few sexual experiences.
Dark Arc
Independent / Drama / Comedy
Ed Smith is a run-of-the-mill graphic designer who becomes enticed by Juxta -- cosmetician, model and no-sex call girl -- after meeting with her at a local cafe. Juxta uses Ed's obsession with her to change his focus and his obsession towards imagery. Particularly imagery that Ed will relate to the first time he saw Juxta. What Ed doesn't know is that his meeting with this mysterious woman wasn't by chance as a man, Viscount Laris, sits patiently behind the scenes pulling the strings.
The Sinner
Short / Occult / Thriller / Mystery / Drama
When a priest reaches a low point in life where he doesn't care anymore, he's visited by a strange man who goes to confession after hours.
Independent / Drama / Horror
Two survivors in the zombie apocalypse try to keep themselves alive as long as possible by hiding on the roof of a mechanical shop. One of the survivors, Ellen, worked in the shop below and was the first to find this safe spot who is considering suicide. But she helps a fellow survivor, Cillian, to get up on the roof and she has other things to worry about.
The Visitant
Independent / Horror
Samantha pretends to be a psychic and fortune teller in order to pay the bills when she is unable to find any acting gigs. In her attempt to console a noticeably disheveled woman who believes she's being haunted by a demonic spirit, Samantha unwittingly becomes the next victim of this evil entity.
Dropping Evil
Independent / Comedy / Horror
Mike and Samantha planned on going away for the weekend by doing some camping but they each have a friend that is kind of a loner so they end up inviting them to come along. The problem is that Mike's friend, Nancy, is a bit of a religious fanatic and after annoying everyone, he is slipped some LSD in an attempt to calm him down. An idea that turns bad as the LSD turns Nancy from preacher to madman as he starts stalking and killing his so-called friends in the woods. There's something hidden in the woods though. Something that is watching the massacre unfold with devious intentions.
Game Over
Horror / Splatter
Even though Tina, an American Scream Queen, is living in Germany these days, her friends and fellow Scream Queens, Melody and Eala, fly over to visit and celebrate Tina's birthday with her. While celebrating by drunkenly stumbling through a park, the three women are attacked by psychopath who takes them back to his home. Once there, he plans on brutally torturing the women for the entertainment and enjoyment of his wife.
Fuzz Track City
Independent / Comedy / Noir
Murphy Dunn is a private detective who is hired by his former High School guidance counselor to find her middle-aged son who's gone missing. It seems like a straight forward case except for the fact that a rare vinyl record is the reason for her son's disappearance. The further Murphy investigates he begins to understand why when there seems to be a life-or-death struggle between musicians, fellow detectives and a record company who want to get their hands on this rare piece of music.
Independent / Thriller / Mystery / Horror
A demented family of seemingly strangers live in a house together, never stepping outside due to the fear of the world around them. The house was once filled to the brim but is now reduced to only a small handful of those who remain. The tension that already exists between them grows ever more volatile when a stranger comes to live with them and disrupts their idea of normalcy.
Murder University
Independent / Horror / Comedy
Twenty years ago, there was a series of brutal cult-like killings at a university in a small New England town in 1983. The killer was never caught but everything seemed quiet until twenty years later. Freshman and loner Josh Greene manages to survive being attacked by the masked maniac and is recruited by Detective Forrester to help catch the killer and finally put a stop to these killings.
Demon Resurrection
Independent / Horror
Grace's friends are setting up an intervention for her when they believe her new boyfriend has gotten her into drugs. When they arrive at the secluded house they quickly realize that what's up with Grace is far worse than a drug addiction.
The Last Big Thing
Independent / Comedy
Simon Geist is the most dangerous man in Los Angeles. Fueled by the Underground Agenda, Simon sets up interviews with musicians, models, actors and comedians for his magazine, that doesn't actually exist, only to berate and terrorize those who foolishly agree to meet with him. A chance meeting with one of his victims lands Simon opportunities and causes him to grow in popularity. Will he stay true to his convictions or will he become part of the system he hates and become the next big thing?
The Hard Cut Double Feature
Independent / Noir / Exploitation / Horror / Comedy
"The Hard Cut Double Feature" tells the stories of two men who become tangled in a web of murder, satanic rituals and a lost exploitation film. In "The Hard Cut", Detective Roddy is hired by a mysterious and sultry woman to find a copy of a movie called "Catholic Cheerleaders for Satan". Not a big deal until Roddy uncovers why this movie is so desirable and why there are people out there who are willing to kill for it. Then in "I Woke Up Screaming the Day I Died" we see the same story told from the perspective of Rocky, a hitman-for-hire who gets caught up in the fight for the film after his boss sends him after Roddy.
Struggled Reagans
Independent / Comedy / Sci-fi / Fantasy
6 young adults are traumatized by a horrible event in their life which creates a tumor in the collective unconscious. They're then called upon to rid the collective unconscious of this tumor by being given powers to create a group called Struggled Reagans. Their fight has only begun, as they have to beat everything that's thrown at them to protect the tumor.
7th Day
Independent / Horror / Thriller
A murderer is trying to find out what he actually wants in life: the woman he believes is the one, or murder. He decides to spend 7 days figuring it out, but it's not always an easy decision.
Atom the Amazing Zombie Killer
Independent / Comedy / Horror
It seemed like Atom was destined to follow in his Grandfather's footsteps by taking his bowling team, The Amazing Zombie Killers, to the top of a local bowling tournament and where they would then compete in Hawaii. That was until Dario and his team, The Slashers, showed up and stole the spot from Atom's team by cheating. Between that and his girlfriend leaving him, things seem to be about as bad as they can get for Atom. That is until he finds himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.
Scars of Youth
Independent / Experimental / Sci-Fi
200 years into the future, society has fractioned off into tiny groups with a mysterious wall appearing out of nowhere segregating the population even further from their own world. Paul is a man living within these walls that appear to be closing in around him. However, Paul's focus isn't on the collapsing society but his own personal world as he looks to the past to help solve his present problems with his mother, Helen. A beautiful woman who is drinking an unknown black liquid that's keeping her youthful but is also causing her mind to slip and scars to form all over her body.
Independent / Mystery / Thriller / Noir / Horror
A group of people awaken inside a home with no memory of who they are or how they got there and worse, there seems to be a supernatural force preventing them from leaving. Attempting to find answers to who they are and why they're in the home, these strangers begin to wander down the haunted halls of the home.
Big Bad Wolves
Thriller / Crime / Comedy
Young girls are found raped, murdered and decapitated, and a teacher is the main suspect. When a cop and the father of one of the victims are both hunting him down, he's soon tied and tortured in a basement until he reveals the truth. It quickly turns into a triangle drama when the father is uncertain whether he can trust the cop or not.
The Beauty Strip
Independent / Documentary / Erotic / Experimental
Accompanied with music we're taken into the lives of several women's erotic lifestyles as they are free reveal themselves however they feel secure to.
A Public Ransom
Independent / Thriller / Mystery / Noir / Comedy
When a selfish author, Steven, finds a missing person flyer with a crayon drawing on it, he calls the number on the flyer. Upon meeting the man who made the flyer, he refuses to believe that he actually has a child kidnapped, but is inspired by the whole thing and wants to write a book based on it. The man ends up becoming a larger part of his life than he ever wanted him to.
Forever Evil
There's a massacre in a cabin and only one man survives the horrible ghoul that attacked them. After his recovery a woman contacts him because she has also witnessed the evil that killed his friends. Together they start investigating the situation and find out they have to fight an ancient evil that has came to earth.
Drama / Horror
Paul Grot is a quiet, unassuming man. He can come off as a bit creepy at times but for the most part he is nothing more than shy and, unfortunately, devoid of social interaction. However, he keeps a dark secret in his home: the dead body of a young woman. While Paul may not have a relationship with any living person, he's developed a strong bond with the lifeless body of this woman and begins to fill a void in his life. That is until Paul begins to realize what he's done.
Discovering the Talent of Emma Eliza Regan
Interview by: Ronny
Along with a new wave of Irish independent film a new talent started to bloom. Emma Eliza Regan has been part of a number of our recent favorite independent films from Ireland, including "Tin Can Man" which made our top #2 back in 2012. Acting might not have been the goal growing up and discovered in late teens, but she shows as much passion and maturity as someone who has been in the field for decades. It's with pleasure we finally publish this interview with her.
Love Eternal
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
At the age of 6, Ian loses his father. Even though he continues life living with his mother, he becomes a quiet, secluded young man who spends most of his time in his room. As a young man he also loses his mother, and is left to himself. He decides to finally do what he has planned for a long time - to end his life. But his fascination of death keeps him alive for a while longer.
Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical
Independent / Thriller / Musical
A gunshot to the head might kill most people, but not tough guy Eugene Hicks. He wakes up angry and set out for revenge on the person who shot him - a cop. He's also out to find the love of his life, a woman he attacked and raped, but who grew fond of him as well.
Comedy / Crime / Adventure / Thriller
Chris and Tina, a new loving couple, go on a road trip vacation together with a caravan. He wants to show her everything that is to offer out there, but eventually his big secret is revealed as well: he's a murderer. If people annoy him, they're about to die. Tina's love can't be broken by something tiny as that, and so their relationship grows stronger - albeit more complicated.
Self Storage
Jake's a security guard at a large storage facility. Inside of the facility, his colleagues are running are stearing up an human organ trafficking deal behind his back. When Jake let's his friends party over at his work place, the colleagues know where to look for organs for their latest big deal.
Caesar and Otto's Deadly Xmas
Independent / Horror / Comedy
A failed attempt at having a Thanksgiving party at their crappy apartment is the least of their worries as both Caesar and Otto find themselves in another terrifying pickle from the fast approaching holidays. A maniacal Santa Claus is going around and hacking up all the people Caesar and Otto know. And if that wasn't bad enough, Otto finds himself in a mid-life crisis over a missed chance at love while Caesar has to deal with his own personal fears when he's booked to play as Santa at malls.
Having Fun Up There
Independent / Drama / Comedy
Playing music hasn't paid off for 37 year old Mark, but he has came to terms with it. If you're passionate about your art, you don't have to be successful at it. But still there is something that is gnawing at him. Everyone else seems to be finding their happiness, but why can't he?
The Last Horror Film
Horror / Sleaze / Comedy
A cab driver takes his obsession with a famous horror actress too far when he decides to go to the Cannes Film Festival to make a movie with her in the leading role. But he's not there for a meeting, just to make his dream come true. People are killed off while he starts shooting his movie guerillea style with her unsuspectingly in the leading role. Just like he always hoped for.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Comedy / Splatter / Horror / Musical
The American Chicken Bunker, a fried-chicken chain, builds a restaurant in Tromaville right on top of an ancient Indian burial ground. Arbie starts working there as a protest against his vegetarian now-lesbian ex-girlfriend who is protesting outside, but will soon regret his decision. The dead will rise in this restaurant. Not the bodies buried below, but the chicken in the restaurant. And it will spread to anyone who eats there.
Dead Kids
Horror / Sci-fi / Slasher
After a test, Pete Brady's closest friend, a typical D student, manages to get an A after a few meetings with a female scientist. Pete's invited over to one of her classes and afterwards she wants him to visit her clinic so she can perform the same experiment on him as on his friend, to make him better in school. But this experiment isn't just making you better in school, it also forces you to kill. Students are killed off in the most bizarre ways, seemingly by different people, and Pete is soon in the middle of it all.
Independent / Drama / Romance / Comedy
The luck of an animator is running out when a studio shows no interest to his latest pitch. However, his luck seems to be turning around when he meets a young, free-spirited woman at an art exhibit who knows a guy at Pixar who she can help him get a pitch with. Love blooms between the two as they go on a roadtrip to San Francisco to meet the guy. But will love last once secrets are revealed?
Ghosts of Empire Prairie
Independent / Drama / Crime
Lonnie returns home to Empire Prairie, the desolate little town where he once grew up. Where his drunk father and younger brother still live. But when Lonnie returns home there's no family reunion, there's only trouble brewing.
Dangerous Obsession
Thriller / Crime / Mystery
When a televangelist is murdered, a detective is hired by the Church to protect it and the owner's daughter - a woman he's instantly attracted to. Being hired means more than just another job, he's now entering a world of crime, deceit and sin. While at home, he's having personal problems with the relationship with his wife.
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Robin chose to work for the company for the impact it has on the industry and she appreciates its mission to make the industry a better place through workforce improvement.
Prior to joining TDS, Robin made significant contributions to plant operations at the Bayer Material Science plant in Baytown, Texas. As Operations Manager, she set direction for the operation of two amine plants including budgeting, personnel development, training, goals, safety, quality and environmental compliance. She has experience with global supply chain efforts including rail, truck, barge and export warehousing.
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Throughout the NBA playoffs, the league has posted micro-movies to its personal YouTube account, providing unique access to in-game moments on the court, along the bench and inside the locker room.
This most recent one, from the Spurs' 113-77 Game 3 blowout of the Heat, was particularly interesting because of all the colorful moments from coaches and players alike. There were moments of triumph from the Spurs, bouts with confusion from the Heat, and detailed instruction from both coaches, Gregg Popovich and Erik Spoelstra.
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(The Huffington Post) - Say goodbye, Mr. Bond. On Wednesday, about 2,000 movies -- including many Bond titles -- will be removed from Netflix.
Netflix's licensing deals with major studios including MGM, Universal, and Warner Bros. expire May 1. While some news outlets originally reported that these movies were moving to Warner Bros.'s new streaming site, Warner Archive took to Twitter to clarify that this is not the case.
In a statement to The Verge, Netflix made it clear that its goal is to be an "expert programmer" rather than a "broad distributor" of videos. A Netflix representative said that Netflix is adding, more than 500 titles on Wednesday and "this ebb and flow happens all the time."
You can see the entire list of more than 1,800 titles that Netflix is losing at InstantWatcher.
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Sunnyvale City Center In Trouble – Developer Wants To Convert to Public-Private Partnership!
May 12, 2009
The developers behind Sunnyvale City Center have run into a brick wall as far as financing is concerned, and now they want the government's help to get the project back on track. The Mercury News is quoting Peter Pau, the principal behind Sand Hill Property Company as wanting the city to essentially act as a co-signer (at least that's what it sounds like) to help get the project back on track.
Pau said that the city could help the developer secure construction loans by acting as a partner or backer, providing some "incentive" or "encouragement" to Sand Hill's lenders. He said that he does not support taking money away from public works projects such as those in the Sunnyvale Works plan.
He doesn't support taking money away from public works? How nice of him. The reality is that Peter Pau is only a small piece of the pie when compared to his partner in the deal, RREEF. The two acquired the Sunnyvale Town Center site at the peak of the market, around April 2007 for a rumoured $80-90 psf. As the market continued to deteriorate, the developers pushed forward on the project. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time and it didn't take any real expertise to figure out that retail and office rents were not sustainable and soon would be on the way down along with the economy, but hey if the lenders were willing to lend, the developers were willing to build.
I don't blame SHPCO and RREEF for trying to get the city on board to finish out the project, but the handouts are out of control. In the good 'ole days when the concept of risk ruled the day, the developers would default, the property would be foreclosed on, and another developer would step in and finish out the project at a lower basis and get the space leased up at rents more in line with the marketplace. Getting this project finished out at the current cost doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since it was probably acquired upon the premise that the developers could get $48-60 NNN retail rents, and $40 NNN office rents, both of which are numbers that are not representative of today's market. Who knows what they penciled for the residential units. Last I heard they were trying to just do the facade and not build out the interiors.
The other issue is that this isn't the only project SHPCO is likely facing some difficulty with. They are also the developer behind the Main Street mixed-use project in Cupertino, a project they are in bed with Principal Real Estate Investors (PREI) and Bank of America on. In that deal, SHPCO also has very little "skin in the game", so if that ends up going sideways Principal and BofA will be left holding the bag, though strategically it is a more solid asset in my opinion in terms of location, demographics, and scarcity. Still, I suspect that 17.4 acre site has lost some 35-40% of its value since it was acquired by Sand Hill Property Company for $65M in early 2008.
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A Redditch town centre care home has had a special Christmas lights switch-on this year, when Redditch mayor Councillor Alan Mason joined them to throw the switch.
Care come manager Lauren Freeman and resident Ann Brittle joined in the ceremony at Bowood Mews Care Home as Councillor Mason switched on their decorative display to mark the start of the festive season.
The care home is one of over 240 care homes that is operated by HC-One Ltd.
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Their reputations are on the line.
Earlier in the week, the duo published an article in the New York Times outlining a mathematical strategy for winning the thousands of Internet and office pools that take place this time of year. As even a novice bracketologist knows, the outcome of these first-round games can flush one's pool future down the commode. Even more so for Clair and Letscher, who specialize in playing against the percentages.
"Oh, God," Clair cringes as the University of Oklahoma's Sooners fall to the Panthers of UW-Milwaukee. "We're going to do terrible!"
In the 72 hours since the duo's article hit the pages of the Times, 50,000 people have logged onto Letscher's SLU Web site (dehn.slu.edu/sports) to eyeball the professors' predictions, the product of a year and a half of formula-honing.
Rather than forecast the outcome of the tournament based solely on the track records of the teams involved, Clair and Letscher amass data from the Internet in order to discern which teams the masses favor. These are the teams they don't want in their Final Four especially if they're consensus picks in massive online pools such as those operated by Yahoo and ESPN, in which the number of entries reaches into the millions.
The professors feed their data into their complex software program, which combines basketball stats with public sentiment and voilà! brackets that look like few others.
Clair and Letscher output three different ostensible pool entries: a version customized for small "office" pools of 50 participants, one for middling pools of 5,000 and one for pools of 500,000 to post in mega-competitions like ESPN's. While most of the nation believes either Duke or Connecticut will snag the national title on April 3, all three of Clair and Letscher's brackets have Texas topping Florida for all the marbles. (Close to home, they had Southern Illinois University's Salukis going down in the first round to West Virginia in all three versions.)
"Our logic rewards the long shots," explains the bespectacled Letscher, who seemed quick to shrug off early first-round losses of Oklahoma and Marquette. (Prior to the tourney, Vegas oddsmakers had UConn at 3-1 and Duke at 7-2; Texas was 12-1 and Florida 20-1.) "The misconception is that we've developed a formula to win the tournament. That's not true."
Rather, Letscher contends, he and Clair have found a way to identify "value" bets in much the same way a savvy horseplayer hones strategies for wagering on Thoroughbred racing.
Boasts Letscher: "We believe we've upped the odds a thousand times."
In other words, in a betting pool that contains 1 million contestants, Clair and Letscher believe they have a 1 in 1,000 chance of winning. By the same token, this means their chances of winning the pool this year or anytime soon are slim.
"We may not see our formula pay off in our lifetime," Clair concedes. "Probably 80 percent of the time we'll score in the bottom 20 percent."
The professors, both in their thirties, hit on their theory one afternoon in 2003 while discussing the NCAA tournament. That was the year 51 percent of the participants in ESPN's online pool picked Kentucky to win the national championship. The Wildcats got only as far as the Elite Eight.
"Kentucky was a good team," Letscher recalls. "But there's no way any team entering the tournament has a 50-50 chance of winning the championship."
With that in mind, the mathematicians set about decoding March Madness. Their paper, "Optimal Strategies for Sports Betting Pools," is now making the rounds of academic peer review.
Bob Goetz, weekend sports editor for the New York Times, came across the document while trolling the Internet in early March.
"I was looking for professor types who could talk about the bracket as a math problem," says Goetz. "Other people have done similar studies, but I liked theirs because they incorporate this huge body of information out there on the Web that wasn't available for earlier studies."
After following up with the professors by phone, Goetz commissioned them to boil their theory down to an article, which he published in the Times' March 13 sports section as part of a package titled "How to Win Your Pool."
The editor's take on Blair and Letscher's first foray into journalism?
"They were terrific. I'm not going to tell you I understand the math behind their work, but their conclusions are very understandable," says Goetz. "It was one of the most e-mailed articles of the day."
Of course, geeks into gaming is nothing new. In 1962 mathematics professor Edward Thorp published the seminal Beat the Dealer, in which he applied a mathematical system of card counting to win at blackjack. More recently, in the early 1990s six Massachusetts Institute of Technology students famously applied a variation of Thorp's theory and came away from Las Vegas casinos with millions of dollars. They were caught only when turncoats within the posse sold names and photos of their colleagues to the casinos' in-house security.
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