Best known for playing Art the Clown in the Terrifier series, David Howard Thornton gets to play another famous clown villain in the Batman fan film Joker’s Wild. In this 13-minute horror short film written and directed by Aaron Bennett, The Joker (Thornton) has Jason Todd (Joel LeBlanc), aka Robin, prisoner and proceeds to torture…
A light is shone on United States Gun Culture using footage from thousands of YouTube videos in From My Cold Dead Hands. Framed by a video listing the reasons for being a gun owner, Spanish documentarian Javier Horcajada Fontecha compiles a YouTube mash-up about gun-toting Americans. This includes the best places to keep a gun,…
A teenage girl becomes a karate-fighting vigilante and learns a secret about her mother’s past in Out of the Shadow. Chu Po (Larine Tang) is a teenager tired of being held down by her overprotective mother Ying (Kay Tse). As such, Po secretly begins receiving karate lessons from Madam Mo (Natalie Tong), using her skills…
A woman refuses to give up hope looking for her missing YouTuber sister in Shelby Oaks. Riley Brennan (Sarah Durn) was the post of the popular ghost-hunting YouTube series Paranormal Paranoids. In 2008, Riley and her team went missing after investigating the ghost town of Shelby Oaks, Ohio, known for its supposedly haunted amusement park….
Film scholar David Bordwell has passed away at the age of 76 after a long struggle with a degenerative lung disease. The name would be familiar to anyone who has taken film school, as he was one of the key figures in film studies. Along with his wife and fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison film professor…
The evolution of YouTube into one of the most ubiquitous and powerful media platforms in the world is explored in The YouTube Effect. YouTube was founded in 2005 by former PayPal employees Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim as a way for people to stream and share videos on the web easily. Following some…
It has a few truly scary moments; however, the practically narrative-free experimental haunted house plot definitely isn’t for everyone
Three American filmmakers get more than they bargained for when investigating a ghost story in rural Quebec in Curse of Aurore. Casey Nolan, the host of the YouTube series Mind Seed TV, plays a video off a thumb drive found in a Dark Web mystery box. On it is footage shot by American filmmakers Aaron…
