Reviews

We live in a glorious time for anyone who wants to make an indie movie. Back in the early ’90s, if you wanted to make an indie film, it was still an expensive process. You had to buy reels and reels of 16mm film or 35mm film. Each reel lasted

Often times you’ll hear directors claiming that you have to be more innovative when they must work with a small budget versus the hundreds of millions the studios lavish on the latest Marvel Superhero flick. Naturally you think they’re just full of it and trying not to seem ungrateful to

Well, we’re one week in to me being back to work, and already I’m not making it through my whole pullfile list before it’s time to submit this column. I was hoping things would be different, but the next few weeks are really busy. Instead of waiting for a week

Before you watch Harawata Man, you need to get the DVD of Ikenie Man. This is the sequel. While you can still enjoy the film separately, it’s best as a double feature. Both films are short so watching them back-to-back is about the running time of the average horror film.

Back in the mid-90s when I went to the North Carolina School of the Arts, a group of students made their own video film outside of a class. They didn’t want to be constrained by the faculty’s rules about content and time. They wanted to make their kind of horror