The Stranger is participating in Scarecrow Video’s Psychotronic Challenge all month long! Every October, Scarecrow puts together a list of cinematic themes and invites folks to follow along and watch ...

As the 2010 Psychotronic Film Festival approaches, the group's executive and artistic director, Jim Reed, has one plea. Don't be put off by the title. "I don't show strictly psychotronic films," he ...

Grindhouse, trash sci-fi and kung fu films, experimental 3-D — these are the territory of bizarro cinema. The Twin Cities Psychotronic Film Society, which has been operating since March, screens ...

Based on actual events, "The Snowtown Murders" is about Australia's most prolific serial killer, John Bunting, and the effect he has on a poor, 16-year-old schizophrenic boy. It will be presented Aug.

I was born in the 1990s, so I remember the final days of VHS before DVD took over. And sure, whilst watching a movie on a shiny digital disc will give you all kinds of luxuries such as interactive ...

A child accused. Everyone left to answer.

Kirby’s Dream Band drummer Erich Beckmann is also the musical manipulator behind Djinn & Tonic, an experimental alt-rock project that makes what he calls electro exotica, blending electronic dance ...

As gear becomes available to anyone with the money to buy a decent computer and some image-processing software, the entire idea of “low budget” as a signifier of anything becomes increasingly hazy.

Look, I love watching shitty movies and television as much as anyone (I have seen every episode of the entire Love Is Blind franchise, thankyouverymuch), but when it comes time to watch a shlocky ...