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The Found Footage Festival: A Celebration of V/H/eSoterica
For those who worry that the show will be nothing but squirrels, have no fear as the show is just Mostly Squirrels.Celebrating 20 years of wonderful bullshit, the Found Footage Festival live show is a gut-busting, whipshit of all shitter bongers. One of my go-to sources for background noise is Red Letter Media’s Best of the Worst, and this live show was almost like a live version of that but a thousand times funnier. (It should be noted that Nick and Joe were doing this long before RLM’s BotW.)

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Curator of all things Horror Press James-Michael and I took Pennsylvania by storm over the weekend. We made our way from New Jersey to Croydon, PA, for the Found Footage Festival. Walking through the vendor area we met many wonderful sellers who offered everything from vintage WWE toys, VHS tapes, to near-perfect condition copies of Scream Queens Illustrated, and so much more. We also had the opportunity to meet Joe La Scola and Sean O’Rourke, the two wonderful guys behind the Movie Dumpster Podcast.
Some time passed, and drinks were consumed, and it was time for the show to begin. The preshow was a plethora of odd short films, nostalgic movie trailers, and vintage theater food ads. The first short film shown was the ABSOLUTELY insane Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. This short film, produced by then-senator Joe Biden, was presented by George H. W. and Barbara Bush. It was an anti-drug film that starred animated icons like Kermit, Alf, Garfield, Michelangelo (the worst Ninja Turtle they could pick), Bugs Bunny, Slimer, and a handful of others. Simply put, this was an absolute fever dream of an anti-drug ad, and worth the watch if you can track it down.
The opening act of the Found Footage Festival was from filmmaker/interpretive artist Lapses (Matt Cannon). His Innercorp 2.0™ performance was an oddly liminal act that put the audience into a trance-like state. Cannon created what I can only describe as an Adult Swim-like live show. His intentional awkwardness sold his performance and created a frighteningly fun fever dream. I don’t ever want to be deprogrammed by anyone else. But, weirdly enough, Cannon’s overall message behind the performance was incredibly positive and inspired me to be a better me. His synth-wave score put me in a perfect mood to watch an hour’s worth of found footage mayhem.
If you plan on going to one of the upcoming shows for the 20th anniversary of the Found Footage Festival and want to avoid spoilers, skip ahead! The opening video before Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher ran on stage was a live birth, followed by glowing[ly expensive] intros from Dolph Lundgren and Chuck Norris.
For those who worry that the show will be nothing but squirrels, have no fear as the show is just Mostly Squirrels. Celebrating 20 years of wonderful bullshit, the Found Footage Festival live show is a gut-busting, whipshit of all shitter bongers. One of my go-to sources for background noise is Red Letter Media’s Best of the Worst, and this live show was almost like a live version of that but a thousand times funnier. (It should be noted that Nick and Joe were doing this long before RLM’s BotW.)
The show itself brought tears to my eyes. I genuinely cannot remember a time I laughed this hard. From news bloopers that aren’t in the myriad YouTube compilations, to the most chaotic Public Access shows, to backyard stuntmen, the Found Footage Festival covers a multitude of bases with videos that will appeal to every audience. My favorite video they presented was “Memorial Day 2000”. Nick and Joe prefaced the video as a redneck Lord of the Flies, and that introduction could not be more accurate.
The live show experience was near perfection, and my overall takeaway was that no one does it as well as independent artists do. Each vendor took the time to talk with us, share their processes, and even give us some solid deals. Matt Cannon put on a performance that major media conglomerates wouldn’t have the balls to run. And Nick and Joe were unapologetically themselves. Run, don’t walk if you have the opportunity to check out the Found Footage Festival. It’s a unique slice-of-life show that delivers the shocks as much as it does the comedy.
If The Found Footage Festival is playing near you, you won’t want to miss it. To get tickets to an upcoming show, check here.
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‘Death Becomes Her’ 4K Giveaway: Live Forever with This Cult Classic!

We’re back with another killer giveaway! This Oscar-winning, campy Robert Zemeckis flick, shot by the always incredible Dean Cundey, has re-rocked the queer community with its recent Broadway adaptation. A few simple steps can put you in the running to receive this genre classic.
Enter Our Death Becomes Her Giveaway!
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If the winner does not respond on Instagram within 24 hours, we will randomly select another winner.
What You’ll Win
- 4K transfer of the original 35mm camera negative
- Presented by Dolby Vision
- The Making of Death Becomes Her: featuring interviews with Robert Zemeckis, writer David Koepp, Director of Photography Dean Cundey, Production Designer Rick Carter and Special Effects Artists Lance Anderson and David Anderson
- Vintage Making-of Featurette
- Photo Gallery
- Theatrical Trailer
Celebrate Pride with this gorgeous 4K copy of a bona fide cult classic! What are you waiting for? Your rejuvenation potion to kick in? Go on, do it, it’s the completion of your physical media collection! SEMPRE VIVE!
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Demon Twinks: Horror’s Deadliest Skinny Boys
Ranking the top 10 deadliest twink horror villains! From Corey Cunningham in Halloween Ends to Lee in Bones and All, these slim slashers bring terror with style.

When one is ideating horror-related topics for Pride Month, it shouldn’t take too long for the phrase “demon twink” to pop into one’s head. Naturally, it took me three years to come up with this idea. I never said I was a genius. But once it got into my head, I couldn’t get it out. Twinks don’t have a reputation for being imposing or menacing. They’re usually young, slim, etc., and as such can be quickly written off.
But horror villainy is an equal opportunity business, and there are plenty of demon twinks to be had, if you know where to look. Twunks need not apply. So I took the time to do some exhaustive research and break down some of the deadliest skinny boys in the business (ranked by deadliness, of course – their body type is part of the foundation of this discussion but not attached to any sort of value judgment).
Warning: Some of these movies are whodunits, so there will be spoilers.
Top 10 Demon Twinks in Horror
#10 Orphan: First Kill (2022) – Gunnar Albright
Demon twink number 10 is low on the list because he doesn’t actually kill anybody during the events of Orphan: First Kill, but (VERY SPOILER ALERT) the fact that, prior to said events, he murdered his own kid sister and conspired with his mother to cover it up very much earns him a place on this list. That’s demonic as hell.
#9 He Lives by Night (夜驚魂) (1982) – The Stocking Killer
This Hong Kong movie is probably the least well-known of the titles on this list, but it shouldn’t be. Well, it is a touch transphobic, as are so many early post-Psycho slashers, so be warned. But the killer – whose mind snapped because of his cheating wife, leading him to murder women by strangling them with stockings – pulls off a heap of brutal, protracted, often beautiful murders, including one that I would accuse of ripping off Tenebrae if it hadn’t actually come out before the Argento classic.
#8 Terror Train (1980) – Kenny Hampson
Kenny racks up a pretty solid body count for an early 1980s slasher villain, helping 10 people shuffle off this mortal coil. However, the flair that he has for changing costumes is not reflected in the kills, which can be a little samey, landing him a little lower on the list than he maybe should be.
#7 Scream VI (2023) – Ethan Landry
Like all Scream movies, the exact body count that each Ghostface is responsible for in Scream VI is a little unclear. However, given where he is at certain times in the movie, he could have perpetrated at least five of the New York City slayings, which is more than his dad (three, tops) or his sister (who maxes out at four). He’s also pretty clearly the Ghostface behind the notorious ladder scene, which results in one of the most gruesome deaths in the movie. Poor Anika. We hardly knew ye.
#6 Cutting Class (1989) – Brian Woods
See, this demon twink 1980s slasher killer has a more compact body count of 6, but he knows how to have fun with it. He’s out here baking people into kilns and inspiring Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving with a deliciously preposterous trampoline murder.
#5 Angst (1983) – K
K may not have a lot of meat on his bones, but what he does have to offer is an uncontrollable urge to torture and murder people. This bleak, shocking motion picture has a relatively low body count, because it primarily follows him tormenting one isolated family. However, the sheer intensity of what we do see cannot be denied, as is the intensity of the way K does everything in his life, including eating a sausage in what might actually be the most disgusting scene in the movie.
#4 Fade to Black (1980) – Eric Binford
When it comes to a small body count with flair, look no further than Eric Binford, who stages five spectacular murders inspired by classic films, namely Kiss of Death, Dracula, Hopalong Cassidy, The Mummy, and White Heat, all while trying to get with a Marilyn Monroe lookalike. Commitment to a theme will get you far in Pride Month, and we must all pay respect.
#3 Bones and All (2022) – Lee
Lee’s onscreen kill count isn’t especially high, but he gets extra points for style (Slitting a dude’s throat in the middle of a hookup? This demon twink brings the drama) and for canonical cannibal murders that have taken place before the events of the story, including those of his father and babysitter. Plus, Timothée Chalamet is the ur twink of our day, and that is what pushes him so far toward the top of the list.
#2 Children of the Corn (1984) – Malachai
Although he does not figure very much in the opening scenes of the movie when the town’s children turn on the adults, Isaac’s second-in-command makes up for lost time once the main thrust of the story kicks in. In fact, he’s really the only person who commits proper, non-supernatural murders from that point on, and he takes to his job with terrifying gusto.
#1 Halloween Ends (2022) – Corey Cunningham
I know, I know. He’s not technically Michael Myers, and we’re all mad about that. This is something I’ve written extensively about for Horror Press in the past. But he is the primary killer in this movie, like it or not. He’d already get points for the accidental but spectacular murder of that beyond irritating kid he’s babysitting in the opening sequence (which I’ve also written about previously), but he later adds nine bodies to that count, as well as a homoerotic assist for a Michael Myers slaying. And some of those kills are pretty damn gruesome! This is a deadly, demon twink if there ever was one.
Runners-Up: Jesse Walsh from A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Alex from My Soul to Take, Charlie Walker from Scream 4, Arne Johnson from The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and Norman Bates from Psycho IV: The Beginning