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Chattanooga Film Festival 2022 Review: THE LEECH Wishes You a Bawdy Merry Christmas
The Leech is an impressively gratifying follow-up to Sadistic Intentions for writer/director Pennycoff, who cleverly pairs Gardner and Zaudtke with Skipper to tell a riotous holiday story.
[CFF ’22] ‘The Blood of the Dinosaurs’ review: Trippy short is a thrill ride for the senses
Director Joe Badon has crafted a work that is impossible to describe in words.
[CFF ’22] ‘The Third Saturday in October Part V’ review: Horror movie uses franchise fatigue to its benefit
The Third Saturday in October Part V ably does what it sets out to. It will be nostalgic to genre fans who relied on video stores while younger audiences will enjoy the comedy.
[CFF ’22] ‘One Road to Quartzsite’ Review — Doc asks for empathy
What a day to watch this film. I want to be up front that this is less a review and more a document of my own experience watching the movie, which I guess in some ways is as honest as I can be.
‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ CFF Review – ‘The Langoliers’ Gets an Innovative, Experimental Reworking
Filmmaker Aristotelis Maragkos laboriously re-edits the miniseries using paper collage techniques and animation. The result is The Timekeepers of Eternity, a condensed, experimental, and ingenious reworking of the source material.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2022: Cryo Is a Twisty Chilly Thriller
Any film that knows how to feather its clues in and keep me guessing as I try to crack its code is a worthwhile experience for me.
CFF Review: Throwback Slasher “Bitch Ass” Is A Game Night to Remember
Directed by Bill Posley and featuring an all-black cast, retro board game inspired kills and creative editing Bitch Ass looks to join those aforementioned classics as a staple of the genre.
[CFF ’22] ‘The Ones You Didn’t Burn’ review: Awkward horror movie never finds footing
It is subtle at first; then the machinations of The Ones You Didn’t Burn take over.
THE TERROR TELEVISION - June 24, 2022
Welcome to The Terror Television, our official Fango week in review!
[CFF ’22] ‘Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes’ Review — Mindblowing Euro-horror
This is a film full of genuine madness, featuring some of the most striking horror imagery I’ve seen in a long while.
CFF Review: Eric Pennycoff’s Horror Romp ‘The Leech’ Jingles Timely Bells
Never has there ever been a holiday film quite like Eric Pennycoff’s The Leech, which pits the holy against the hellish for a thematically strong, rapid-fire descent into festive madness.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2022: Unwrap Hilarious Holiday Drear in The Leech
Truly embodying every aspect of the modern-day Christmas spirit, The Leech follows a devout priest during the Christmas season as he attempts to assist a struggling couple through a rough period in their lives.
[CFF ’22] ‘Self-Portrait’ Review — Surveillance doc finds beauty in the mundane
Whether by design or technical incompetence, and what emerges is what Walinga calls an “incidental” portrait of a world that is ever more aware of itself, watching itself always.
[CFF ’22] ‘The Leech’ Review — Wacky, worthwhile holiday horror
The Leech may feel familiar at first, beginning as an odd-couple comedy of sorts, but it goes places you definitely won’t see coming. And it’s an enjoyably gonzo romp, all along the way.
[CFF ’22] ‘Bitch Ass’ Review — Board-game slasher is a bitchin’ blast
You know you’re in for a good time when a horror movie opens with Tony Todd playing the piano dramatically before turning directly to the camera and purring, “Good evening.”
Chattanooga Film Festival 2022: The Ones You Didn’t Burn Will Haunt You
I became unfathomably excited in the first twenty seconds.
Christmas Horror Comedy ‘The Leech’ Arriving this Holiday Season from Arrow Films
Arrow Films has acquired distribution rights for Eric Pennycoff’s Christmas horror-comedy “The Leech,” ahead of its world premiere at Chattanooga Film Festival on June 23.
Arrow Films Unwraps Christmas Thriller ‘The Leech’
Sadistic Intentions filmmaker Eric Pennycoff is back with his next genre offering, a Christmas-set horror film that dabbles in religion.
UK & U.S. Deals For Horror Comedy ‘The Leech’ (Exclusive)
EXCLUSIVE: Arrow Films has acquired rights in the UK, Ireland, U.S. and Canada to Eric Pennycoff’s Christmas horror comedy The Leech, which is set to have its world premiere at Chattanooga Film Festival tomorrow (June 23).
[CFF ’22] Chattanooga Film Fest salutes ‘Up All Night’ and Rhonda Shear
Initially hosted by the late great Gilbert Gottfried, Up All Night kicked things into high gear in 1991 when the tenure of its best known and most beloved host, Rhonda Shear, began.