• Reviews
  
  

  Critic's Notebook: Hole Head, Week One

  Dennis Harvey
  Jun 17, 2008

  Dennis Harvey covers the first week of low-budget geeks, weirdos and gore on display at the Another Hole in the Head Festival.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  SF Int'l announces its 51st program and year-round screen

  Susan Gerhard
  Apr 1, 2008

  The SFIFF announced its 2008 program and the June 13 launch of its year-round programming on one screen at the Sundance Kabuki

  
• Q & A
  
  

  L.Q. Jones Talks Dogs and Cult Movies

  Miriam Wolf
  Feb 24, 2008

  The list of talking dog movies is long and storied, but one stands head and forelocks above the others: A Boy and His Dog.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Review: "The Signal"

  Dennis Harvey
  Feb 19, 2008

  An idea so vivid yet simple you've got to wonder why more movies haven't used it: Something happens that turns the populace into irrational maniacs.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Undying Love for George A. Romero

  Dennis Harvey
  Feb 14, 2008

  It probably wasn't Romero's original dream to become semi-famous for movies about the flesh-eating undead.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  "Shrooms" Screams Bloody Horror

  Dennis Harvey
  Feb 8, 2008

  The Irish flick might put the leper back in leprechaun, but it's still at heart a reassuringly formulaic hunk of bloody commercial horror.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Jesse Hawthorne Ficks's Midnight Movie Empire

  Dennis Harvey
  Dec 3, 2007

  Midnites for Maniacs unearths populist yet esoteric genre and exploitation flicks that have mostly disappeared into the netherworld of discarded VHS rental tapes.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Peaches Christ Superstar

  Claire Faggioli
  Aug 22, 2007

  A conversation with Joshua Grannel, a.k.a. Peaches Christ, founder and host of camp/cult-fest extravaganza Midnight Mass.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Dead Channels : The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film

  Dennis Harvey
  Apr 19, 2007

  Taste a bit of the vintage grindhouse experience at the last of Dead Channels' Month of Sleazy Sundays triple bill of under-the-radar movies.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Mary Woronov Visits Midnight Mass

  Dennis Harvey
  Aug 3, 2006

  An appreciation of the great actress of cult and mainstream films, before her appearance at a Midnight Mass screening of Death Race 2000.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Celebrating "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"

  Dennis Harvey
  Jul 6, 2006

  The beloved cult classic will screen in conjunction with a live cast reunion at Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass series.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Jesse Ficks and "Midnites for Maniacs"

  Max Goldberg
  Jun 5, 2006

  Film programmer Jesse Hawthrone Ficks talks about the enduring appeal of midnight movies.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Jesse Ficks and "Midnites for Maniacs"

  Max Goldberg
  Jun 5, 2006

  Film programmer Jesse Hawthrone Ficks talks about the enduring appeal of midnight movies.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  A JT LeRoy Reader

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 23, 2006

  The List: How JT LeRoy went from fiction to fact in the media.

  
• In Production
  
  

  Delicious 'All About Evil' In Production

  Michael Fox goes behind the scenes on Peaches Christs' slice-'em-up.