ON GALLOWS HILL is a coming of age tale that uses animation, practical effects, and even stop motion bats to put a very unique and fun spin on vampirism. Made by a group of Gen Z artists, who really impressed me with this film. Very enjoyable! @chattfilmfest.org 2026. #filmsky #horrorsky

Horror…Is…CAMP!! 💄⛺️👠 Thanks to special guest Chris Dortch and @chattfilmfest.org for inviting us to host a LIVE “A Couple of Old Fashioneds” and everyone who showed up to talk about “Horror Is Camp!” Here’s the films we discussed! -SLEEPAWAY CAMP II:UNHAPPY CAMPERS -STAGE FRIGHT -MR. SARDONICUS

We're a nonprofit and we think money is DUMB. If we didn't need it to put on our event we'd make this shit free. Still we try to keep our pricing as punk rock as we can and that's why we are again offering our $65 Last Gasp Pass. An all you can eat buffet for your eyes as cheap as we can make it.

Our audience has shown up for us and we’re now just $1,900 from our fundraising goal and making CFF 2027 a reality. Even if we don’t get there what you’ve all done for us has been humbling. If you’re so inclined consider donating to our Venmo @cff2026 or patreon.com/ChattanoogaF...

Here’s some impromptu Karaoke singing one of my favorite track from the seminal CLUELESS soundtrack, Smoking Popes “Need You Around” at @chattfilmfest.org Did NOT expect to go up there but hey, Liquid Courage does wonders! Photos by Toby Darling & Emily Bennett!

Co-writer/star Dina Silva is fierce af (and she can sing!) in bloody, darkly funny feminist slasher FRANKIE, MANIAC WOMAN, which takes a brutal look at fat shaming and unrealistic beauty standards. From director Pierre Tsigaridis. Seek this one out. @chattfilmfest.org 2026. #filmsky #horrorsky

Horror comedy DEMONETIZE challenges a group of social media influencers to stay the night in a haunted house and all hell breaks loose. The killer teddy bear sequence made me laugh out loud. Over-the-top performances and some genuine scares. Very fun. @chattfilmfest.org 2026. #filmsky #chattfilmfest

Our panel discussion of “A Couple Of Old Fashioneds” wasn’t all that was LIVE at 2026’s @chattfilmfest.org…turns out Jason also LIVES and the METAL is HEAVY! Such a blast getting to introduce some of our favorite cult classics before their gorgeously remastered big screen resurrections!

And a few more snaps…mind the bulge. @chattfilmfest.org

Sit ‘round the campfire and let me tell you a story. @chattfilmfest.org

CFF is the only genre fest that kept virtual access post-pandemic AND screens out AI users. They also run as a nonprofit and could really use the financial support! There's some wonderfully mindbending stuff this year and one of their features is sitting as my film to beat for 2026.

"There are few things the horror genre loves more than hurt people hurting people – especially at a summer camp." I could talk for hours about Avalan Fast's CAMP and why it's a much-needed evolution beyond traumatic horror. @chattfilmfest.org is crushing it this year; what a beautiful film.

From @chattfilmfest.org, the bewitching documentary BLOOD AND GUTS is an up close and personal portrait of the endlessly interesting Adams Family. #filmsky #chattfilmfest My review on @bloody-disgusting.com: bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3956...

New from @chattfilmfest.org, I reviewed @avalonfast.bsky.social's astonishing CAMP, a gorgeous piece of indie queer horror hitting select theaters on Friday. Full review at @popheist.com:

A teenager summons an urban legend, with frightening consequences, in eerie YA supernatural horror THE MID-NIGHT DRIVER. My review from @chattfilmfest.org on @bloody-disgusting.com. #filmsky #horrorsky #chattfilmfest bloody-disgusting.com/news/3956860...

Every year because we don’t ever want money to be a barrier to people having fun at our festival we launch our BACK HALF BADGE. $113 and your eyes get a whole ass buffet of badass genre cinema including five more of our nightly secret screening series REDEYE.

A bit of bad news. We've had to offer a few refunds due to this year's technical difficulties which have set us back a bit on this year's fundraising goal. We are sadly now 4,800 away from this year's goal of making CFF 2027 a reality.

ORFEO is a gorgeous little handmade thing. EVIL DEAD 2 by way of Wes Anderson x Švankmajer @chattfilmfest.org youtu.be/_QODnFNXYJQ?...

GRIND is a very funny gig economy horror anthology elevated by a terrific cast. Keep an eye out for it later this year (on screens and in Fango)! @chattfilmfest.org

"If Sherriff’s story does not exist within the genre, it does exist outside it, enveloping horror’s tropes with a universal story of loss." Harry Sherriff's MISPER is one of the standout features at this year's @chattfilmfest.org.

"takes a blocked artist on a psychotherapeutic journey to forgotten trauma": Deanna Milligan and Ramsey Fendall’s retro freakout LUCID (2025) screens 7.35pm today at @chattfilmfest.org projectedfigures.com/2025/07/22/l...

"sends an ambitious sound recordist into a crabby old sea yarn": Jake Kuhn & Noah Stratton-Twine’s hilariously camp moviemaking throwback THE PERIL AT PINCER POINT screens 4.15pm today at @chattfilmfest.org. Imagine Guy Maddin helming PotC. Love this. projectedfigures.com/2026/03/14/t...

"follows a dreamy, dissociative journey through the cycles of trauma and recovery": @avalonfast.bsky.social’s witch-inflected woman’s picture CAMP (2025) screens 12.15pm today at @chattfilmfest.org projectedfigures.com/2025/09/24/c...

An all girl metal band called Jump Scare find themselves stranded in the desert and have to battle a bunch of crazed cannibals to the death in the hilarious, trippy splatterfest JUMP SCARE. Playing the virtual portion of @chattfilmfest.org. This was fun. #filmsky #horrorsky #chattfilmfest

"combines coming-of-age and cannibalism in its post-apocalyptic terro(i)r": James Branson’s feature debut BUNNY RABBIT (2025) screens virtually at @chattfilmfest.org from 23rd June. Raw and recommended. projectedfigures.com/2026/06/18/b...

Come hang out tonight and you can watch both Russell Goldman’s complete ass-kicker SENDER and the WORLD PREMIERE of a full on mind-melter from filmmaker Josh Lobo NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. bloody-disgusting.com/movie/395650...

We know our festival is in a couple of days but this is really important! www.fangoria.com/fangoria-pre...

Only a few more days until @chattfilmfest.org Our World Premiere!!! 🤯 #Indiefilm #indiehorror #horrormovie #movies

Backing this HARD. MISPER is something truly special. Don’t sleep on this one folks.

Do you enjoy motion pictures and/or winning things that allow you to see motion pictures?

Wanna come to CFF but the state of our shitass economy got ya down? GOOD NEWS! Our pals at local NPR affiliate WUTC are doing a badge giveaway and the winner could be YOU!

NEXT FRIDAY! “A Couple Of Old Fashioneds” is BACK and LIVE! We’re storming the Chattanooga Film Festival to curate and discuss not one…not two…but THREE movies! What Sinema will we discuss!?! Find out next Fri @ 4PM at the Chattanooga Theater Center! JOIN USSSSS. Info here: @chattfilmfest.org

This June we celebrate the 4th Anniversary of our Double Secret Cinema Society our monthly means of bringing our weirdness directly to your HOME. Screenings every month, streaming recs and a community of rad cinephiles waiting to accept you as ONE OF US. Join us tomorrow night?

"a woman’s psychic battle with her own epigenetic repression": Gustine Fudickar and Justin Streichman’s impressionistic, oneiric short film LADY PURITAN (2026) will be available virtually from 19 June as part of @chattfilmfest.org's W.T.F. FUNSIZE EPICS VOL. 2 projectedfigures.com/2026/06/12/l...

A friendly reminder that if you’re looking to pre-game for this year’s festival a damn fine way to do so is to join us for our monthly virtual secret screening series. Our pre-fest screening is tomorrow night at 8pm EST. This June we’ll be celebrating our fourth year of this series and WE WANT YOU.

Want a chance to attend @chattfilmfest.org for free virtually? @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social is hosting a giveaway! 👇👇👇

A friendly reminder if you’re attending Tribeca be LOUD about how much you hate their AI programming. Let them know they have a responsibility to human art and creativity. LET THEM HEAR IT. Loud and often.

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." ~Rod Serling

Hey Tribeca cut the shitttttt!

I think the new BACKROOMS movie might partially be a critique of AI, though it doesn't say that out loud - but it comes close enough to doing so. Don't know if this has been officially confirmed or not.

“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” Chieng told grads. “Kill it. … AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber. Have you heard how dumb people brag about how they use AI?"

Congrats to @philnobilejr.bsky.social and @fangoria.bsky.social on their 300th edition of the Terror Teletype newsletter. If you don’t subscribe yet you need to do so so you can read a flat-out essential column about crowds being a very different thing than a communities. We couldn’t agree more.

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@laminda.bsky.social's awesome independent journalist/newsroom starter pack, vol 2! go.bsky.app/8tFTbR9

Can’t wait for @chattfilmfest.org!!

Our limited-release Anti-Ai merch got gone in a hurry last year. Lots of you share our belief that AI is an asshole and that’s heartening! In that humble spirit, we’ve created our CFF 2026 anti-ai collection. Grab somethin’ and wear it to a film festival that allows AI today! Tell 'em we said hi!

The Hip Pocket is (virtually) heading back to @chattfilmfest.org! 🤘

How much longer until AI psychosis is a clinical diagnosis? Good therapists have to be losing their own minds at this point over it. If we survive the damage, it will be marked as a crisis in hindsight.

Tomorrow our own @dustykramkram.bsky.social has a birthday and we're celebrating by giving YOU a gift.

Super pumped to announce that the great @chattfilmfest.org has programmed @toxiquefilmbro.bsky.social and my animated short film SIREN in their Dangerous Visions block! First-ever mention of a film of ours on @fangoria.bsky.social, but won’t be the last 🚀🤖💦