Month: October 2022

All the details about the 2022 Peoria Film Fest: Oct. 13 – 16

Jeff Mitchell

The 4th Annual Peoria Film Fest arrives at Harkins Theatres Arrowhead Fountains 18 in Peoria, Ariz. from Thursday, Oct. 13 to Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, as it brings independent movies to Phoenix’s West Valley.  The Phoenix Film Foundation is proud to bring this cinematic event to Peoria, and ArtHouseFilmWire conversed over email with Fest Executive Director Jason Carney.  Jason spoke about the Fest’s connection with Peoria and the West Valley, four movies in the busy lineup, Opening Night’s cocktail party, and much more! You can check out the Fest’s schedule,…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘Prince of Darkness’

Jeff Mitchell

“Prince of Darkness” (1987) – John Carpenter’s  biggest films are “Halloween” (1978) and “The Thing” (1982), but he’s delivered many more frightening flicks than his grandest tentpole movies.  “Prince of Darkness” is one of them, as he combines religious themes with an apocalypse scenario reminiscent of Romero’s zombie movies.  Carpenter favorite Donald Pleasance plays a Los Angeles priest who invites a professor (Victor Wong) and his students to a monastery to examine a sizable can of bizarre, swirling green liquid.  Well, the green goo drips some clues that it has…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘Videodrome’

Jeff Mitchell

“Videodrome” (1983) – Who or what is Videodrome?  For starters, it’s a television show broadcast out of Malaysia that depicts torture, human being on human being.   Surely, the torment isn’t real.  Right?  Well, Max Renn’s (James Woods), the head of a TV station that specializes in eccentric programming, is curious about the said program. However, he stumbles onto a path of treachery and sleaze, and that’s just the beginning. Writer/director David Cronenberg’s body-horror-meets-technology flick traverses into mind-boggling spaces, as the events like a character inserting a videotape into another’s torso…