Touch Me π, dir. Addison Heimann, 2025, USA, 100 min.
Monday, June 23, 2025, 7:45 pm, Roxie Theater
⚠️ content advisory: disturbing images
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| Touch Me |
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Monday, June 23, 2025
Touch Me
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Room Temperature
Room Temperature π©ππ₯±π, dir. Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley, 2025, USA/France, 92 min.
Friday, June 20, 2025, 8:30 pm, Roxie Theater
⚠️ content advisory: disturbing themes
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| Room Temperature |
Saturday, June 07, 2025
Scared Shortless (2025)
“Scared Shortless” (shorts program)
Saturday, June 28, 2025, 5:45 pm, Roxie Theater
⚠️ content warning: verbal and physical abuse, intentional self-harm
Update: This program will be available in the Digital Screening Room, June 23 through June 30, 2025, anywhere in the United States.
- Clean Slate π, dir. Emily May Jampel, 2025, USA, 9 min.
- Dope Fiend π, dir. Rosanagh Griffiths, 2023, UK, 13 min.
- Goodbye Party π, dir. Sophia Lou & Nathan Pearson, 2025, USA, 13 min. π World premiere
- The Holly King π, dir. Tim O’Leary, 2025, USA, 10 min.
- Munchies π, dir. Brittany Alexia Young, 2025, USA, 11 min.
- ⚠️Take Care π, dir. Brittany Ashley, 2025, USA, 11 min. π World premiere
- ⚠️Talk Shit π, dir. Will Thede & Ben Weiss, 2025, USA, 13 min.
Friday, June 28, 2024
Haze
Haze, dir. Matthew Fifer, 2024 USA, 76 min. ❓
Friday, June 28, 2024, 8:30 PM Roxie
theater screening preceded by the short RAT! (also in the “Cruel Summer” streaming program)
Haze is not available in the Digital Screening Room streaming encore
⚠️Content advisory: contains themes of abuse and homophobic violence
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Frameline description: “This new feature from director Matthew Fifer (co-director of Cicada, Frameline44) immerses the viewer with a lush, atmospheric, and darkly sexy portrait of a man’s quest for answers to his troubled past. Cole Doman (Mutt, Frameline47, also seen at Frameline48 in the short film Bust) stars as Joe, a gay, investigative journalist who returns to his hometown after recently becoming sober. Struggling to find steady work, Joe becomes laser focused on the next big story to relaunch his career: the mysterious death of eight gay men that occurred at the town’s psychiatric hospital. Now abandoned and intentionally forgotten by the town's people, the looming structure haunts Joe in his quest for the truth.
“When some of these locals begin dropping dead of seemingly-natural causes, we follow Joe and the new, sweltering townie man in his life, Luke (Sense8’s Brian J. Smith, who also directed A House Is Not a Disco in the Frameline48 program), through a complex web of unanswered questions that all seem to share a common explanation — but what? Is this somehow related to his sister’s tragic death when they were children?”
My thoughts: I don’t really have much to say about this film, because I walked out pretty early on. To be fair, that was mostly because I wasn’t feeling great and just wanted to go home to bed, but I will say that it did not seem to be heading towards a satisfying viewing experience to my tastes. The words “darkly sexy thriller” mostly make my eyes roll back in my head, so my bottom line is “not for me.”
• IMDb • Official website • Filmmaker • Instagram: @MattLangeFifer • preview • other •
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Cruel Summer streaming shorts
“Cruel Summer” streaming shorts program
π content advisory: three of the films contain sexually explicit material
Digital Screening Room only (each short also screens in person before a feature film)
- Beach Logs Kill,
dir. Haley Z. Boston, 2024 USA, 9 min. π«€
(screens with Carnage for Christmas, Saturday, June 22, 2024, 8:30 PM, New Parkway) - π Bold Eagle,
dir. Whammy Alcazaren, 2022 Philippines, 16 min.,
in Tagalog, Filipino and English π
(screens with That Boy, Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 9:45 PM, Roxie • World Premiere) - π Pepino/Faca (Cucumber/Knife),
dir. Gustavo Vinagre, 2024 Brazil, 16 min.,
in English, Portuguese, German, French and Spanish ☹️
(screens with That Boy, Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 9:45 PM Roxie • World Premiere) - π Du Bist so Wunderbar (Paradise Europe),
dir. Leandro Goddinho & Paulo Menezes, 2023 Germany/Brazil, 17 min.,
in Portuguese, English, and German π
π Frameline48 Jury Award: Outstanding Narrative Short
(screens with Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers, Thursday, June 27, 2024, 8:15 PM, Roxie) - RAT!,
dir. Neal Mulani, 2024 USA, 17 min. π
(screens with Haze, Friday, June 28, 2024, 8:30 PM, Roxie) - Stink,
dir. Matias Breuer, 2024 USA, 11 min. π©
(screens with “Fangs After Dark” shorts program, Friday, June 21, 2024, 8:30 PM, Roxie • World Premiere)
Friday, June 23, 2023
Perpetrator
Perpetrator, dir. Jennifer Reeder, 2023, USA/France, 101 min. π
Friday, June 23, 8:00 pm, Roxie • not streaming
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Jonquil, or Jonny as her friends call her, is about to turn 18, but strange things begin happening to her. Her father, addicted to pills and of little use in any respect, sends her off to spend her birthday with a mysterious auntie, played by Alicia Silverstone. In the mean time, girls at Jonny’s school are getting murdered, and the principal holds drills in which he comes screaming into the classroom and sprays fake blood on the kids, apparently to help them avoid being the next victim of the unknown serial killer.
This film has the distinction of being the only one in Frameline47 that I walked out of. It was pretty well done, but I’m really not into splatterfest films, and the underlying plot took too long to establish. If you love lesbian horror films, you might like this one, and should check out the trailer. Otherwise, though, I can’t really recommend it.
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