Full of creeping dread and frayed family bonds, Josh Lobo’s ‘I Trapped the Devil’ (2019) is a cracked-mirror portrait of returning home for the holidays.

The 2025 Split Tooth Holiday Special is available now! Watch the online premiere of Jordan Lisi’s 12 AND MORE OMISSIONS with an exclusive video intro and post-film interview with Lisi: www.splittoothmedia.com/12-and-more-...

The 2025 Split Tooth Holiday Special is now available! Check out the online premiere of Jordan Lisi’s 12 AND MORE OMISSIONS with an intro by @whitecitycinema.bsky.social and post-film conversation between Lisi and Shaun Seneviratne! www.splittoothmedia.com/12-and-more-...

Many are the Christmas stories about anxieties of existence, but 'Dead Man’s Letters' (1986) is one of the only truly existential Christmas movies. Oliver O'Sullivan explores the first entry in Konstantin Lopushansky’s decades-spanning Apocalypse Quartet.

On this day in 2021, we lost Michael Nesmith. Breanna McCann wrote a loving tribute to the late great Monkee and cosmic cowboy by looking back on his time with the First National Band.

Marie Menken’s ‘Lights’ (1966) is a joyous distillation of the beauty that abounds during the holiday season, and the darkness that surrounds it.

Before 'Home Alone,' René Manzor created a darker Christmas home invasion film. Craig Wright explores 'Deadly Games: Dial Code Santa Claus,' in which a child’s wish to see Santa turns into a battle to the death.

Tyler Taormina’s ‘Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point’ (2024) is full of mirth and melancholy, a sprawling yet intimate instant holiday classic.

An update of 'The McPherson Tape,' ‘Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County’ (1998) similarly duped audiences with home video of aliens arriving on Thanksgiving well before the found-footage boom arrived.

Young Fresh Fellows are back with a new version of their new LP 'Loft' for Record Store Day Black Friday! Scott McCaughey (@theeminus5.bsky.social) returns to Split Tooth to discuss the making of the special guest-filled album, recording in Wilco's Loft, and the latest chapter of the band’s career.

Read about Paul Morrissey's 'Flesh for Frankenstein' and 'Blood for Dracula,' both starring the late great Udo Kier (1944-2025): www.splittoothmedia.com/flesh-franke...

The year R.W. Fassbinder died, a group of his collaborators, including Udo Kier, met on an island in the Philippines to make an exploitation film. The production and the resulting movie were anything but what was expected. Read about the making of 'The Island of the Bloody Plantation' (1983) on ST!

Happy to officially announce Make More Movies, a new Split Tooth podcast about independent filmmaking where Aaron Bartuska interviews various DIY artists about what keeps them creating. Listen to the first three episodes now, including the latest installment featuring Aidan Cronin!

One of my favorite pieces I’ve done for @splittoothmedia.bsky.social. Check out my look at Antoine Pellissier’s moody, atmospheric super 8 epic

Filmmaker and illustrator Tyler Rubenfeld explores Michael Almereyda’s 'Happy Here and Now' (2002), a forgotten New Orleans-set mystery produced just before Hurricane Katrina.

We recently unleashed the latest edition of our ever-expanding collection of favorite horror films. See which films our staff, friends, and favorite artists selected for their top 10 lists!

Explore Split Tooth’s Frank V. Ross video interview series! Episodes on 'Quietly on By,' 'Hohokam,' 'Present Company,' 'Audrey the Trainwreck,' and 'Tiger Tail in Blue' available now!

Radu Jude, Romania’s premier absurdist, turns the tale of Dracula into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence.

Presented on crumpled and torn paper, ‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ is a re-adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers’ that resembles a story being devoured as it passes

Our latest Archive Pick is Shane Pfender's 2019 letter to 'Death Bed: The Bed That Eats' director George Barry. Originally published during our first October Horror series, Shane's handwritten letter is as bizarrely poetic as 'Death Bed' itself. www.splittoothmedia.com/death-bed/

Despite its utter obscurity and incomplete status, the mysterious three-hour ‘Les Proies du Mal’ may be Antoine Pellissier’s masterpiece. @valbarano.bsky.social explores the remains of the 1982 underground horror epic.

Inspired by old Playboy magazines and classic sexploitation films, Anna Biller's 'Viva' uses period perfect '70s aesthetics to explore its characters’ identities and desires.

Today for October Horror, you can read and listen to a new career-spanning interview with ‘CAMP’ and ‘Honeycomb’ director Avalon Fast, a filmmaker whose work confronts horror in genre-defying fashion.

The final week of October Horror 2025 begins tomorrow. Check out all the writing and podcasts that have been published so far at the link below!

Don Dohler's 'Fiend' (1980) strikes a fascinating balance by being the film that brushes most closely to the filmmaker's own life while being the bleakest of his early features. @brettsplittooth.bsky.social explores Dohler's block party dirge for October Horror 2025!

Three decades after its premiere swept the UK into a frenzy, 'Ghostwatch' (1992) continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong.

Aidan Cronin’s films are in conversation with anxieties that we have all faced, or will face in the future. Aaron Bartuska spoke with the filmmaker about his various artistic endeavors and his latest feature, 'The Birds Tell Me All There Is To Know.'

A film about coercion that is itself coercive, 'In the Dark' (2000) draws on imminent cultural anxieties as a young woman accepts a challenge from an unknown Master of Games. Read the latest October Horror piece from @stephenbroomer.bsky.social!

October might be over, but we've got more horror to share! Shaun Seneviratne, director of 'Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in 4 Parts,' now streaming on Fandor, works through two contemporary horror movies and how they are constructed using vastly different approaches to filmmaking.

Very happy to share my first contribution to @splittoothmedia.bsky.social's October Horror 2025! I wrote on a favorite, Don Dohler’s FIEND (1980)! You can read it here: splittoothmedia.com/fiend/

October Horror 2025 has been one for the books and we hate to see it conclude. But the end of October also means we get to unleash the latest edition of our ever-expanding collection of favorite horror films by our staff, friends, and favorite artists! Happy Halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! EVIL PUDDLE, the new disaster epic from Motern Media, starts streaming today on Vimeo! We spoke with Matt Farley and Charles Roxburgh about making the film, Ancient Pilgrim Magic, and their elaborate plan for releasing their next movie.

Three decades after its premiere swept the UK into a frenzy, 'Ghostwatch' (1992) continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong.

In Radu Jude's 'Dracula' (2025), the filmmaker turns Bram Stoker's tale into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence. Oliver O'Sullivan explores the latest from Romania's premier absurdist for October Horror!

Three decades after its Halloween night premiere swept the UK into a frenzy, 'Ghostwatch' continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong.

Don Dohler's 'Fiend' (1980) strikes a fascinating balance by being the film that brushes most closely to the filmmaker's own life while being the bleakest of his early features. @brettsplittooth.bsky.social explores Dohler's block party dirge for October Horror 2025!

Despite its low budget construction, the Super 8 mad scientist tale 'Doctor Strain the Body Snatcher' (1991) reaches moments of genuine inspiration far beyond its means.

In Radu Jude's 'Dracula' (2025), the filmmaker turns Bram Stoker's tale into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence. Oliver O'Sullivan explores the latest from Romania's premier absurdist for October Horror!

'Serene Velocity' finds the magical and the monstrous in an everyday location and the fundamental materials of filmmaking.

Melding the plots of two 1990s films from horror icons, 'Screamwalkers' (2024) makes no attempt to hide its influences. It instead embraces what made those films so much fun to begin with. Aaron Bartuska explores Sean King's supernatural mashup for October Horror!

The final week of October Horror 2025 begins tomorrow. Check out all the writing and podcasts that have been published so far at the link below!

Fascinated by the larger, overarching, cacophonous hive of the collective unconscious, Rodney Ascher’s 'The Nightmare' (2015) depicts the terror of sleep paralysis.

The slug-paced, staticky madness of 'Sledgehammer' feels like it was beamed in from another dimension. A classic of 1980s shot-on-video horror, 'Sledgehammer' makes for ideal late night viewing.

Remembering horror film icon Vincent Price on the anniversary of his death. . R.I.P. 1911 - 1993

Check out my latest October Horror piece delving into the strange, humid world of Florida maverick Matthew Samuel Smith

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Mixing bizarro stoner horror with fly-on-the-wall naturalism, Matthew Samuel Smith might just be the most distinctly Floridian filmmaker of them all. @valbarano.bsky.social explores Smith's 'Blood Summer' (1993) for October Horror: www.splittoothmedia.com/blood-summer/

A film about coercion that is itself coercive, 'In the Dark' (2000) draws on imminent cultural anxieties as a young woman accepts a challenge from an unknown Master of Games. Read the latest October Horror piece from @stephenbroomer.bsky.social!