January 3, 2014
8:15 p.m.
Anthology Film Archives
2nd Ave. at 2nd St.
New York, NY 10003
Hosted by: Anthology Film Archives
Rona Mark‘s 3rd feature film, Objects Attack!, will be screening with the filmmaker in attendance.
Objects Attack! was shot entirely on Super 8 black and white reversal film and is an experimental narrative about a woman plagued by the evil machinations of inanimate objects. The trailer for this fun-looking flick is below.
Mark previously directed the hit horror film Strange Girls, which is currently streaming on Amazon.
Watch the underground movie trailer for Objects Attack!:...
8:15 p.m.
Anthology Film Archives
2nd Ave. at 2nd St.
New York, NY 10003
Hosted by: Anthology Film Archives
Rona Mark‘s 3rd feature film, Objects Attack!, will be screening with the filmmaker in attendance.
Objects Attack! was shot entirely on Super 8 black and white reversal film and is an experimental narrative about a woman plagued by the evil machinations of inanimate objects. The trailer for this fun-looking flick is below.
Mark previously directed the hit horror film Strange Girls, which is currently streaming on Amazon.
Watch the underground movie trailer for Objects Attack!:...
- 1/3/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
If you’re in the mood for something really scary — and maybe a little off beat — to watch this Halloween, you’re in luck! A terrific crop of wickedly frightening and ghoulishly grotesque horror flicks that terrorized the underground film circuit have made their way to your favorite VOD streaming service just in time for this All Hallow’s Eve.
Saturday Morning Mystery, dir. Spencer Parsons (Amazon | Itunes) Saturday Morning Mystery is one of the best, most original horror movies in recent memory. The film cashes in on both the modern obsession with paranormal investigating as well as on that classic Saturday morning cartoon, Scooby-Doo. But, this ain’t no kiddie film! Four hipsters and their (non-talking) dog look to solve a good ghost mystery and immediately find themselves way in over their heads. Gory and outrageous in more ways than one, what’s most impressive about this flick is how smart,...
Saturday Morning Mystery, dir. Spencer Parsons (Amazon | Itunes) Saturday Morning Mystery is one of the best, most original horror movies in recent memory. The film cashes in on both the modern obsession with paranormal investigating as well as on that classic Saturday morning cartoon, Scooby-Doo. But, this ain’t no kiddie film! Four hipsters and their (non-talking) dog look to solve a good ghost mystery and immediately find themselves way in over their heads. Gory and outrageous in more ways than one, what’s most impressive about this flick is how smart,...
- 10/29/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film has long been a huge fan of the Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival. Every year we’re extremely impressed with the way it pokes, prods, pushes and stabs the horror genre in entertaining new directions through its diverse selection of boundary breaking movies. Some of our favorite horror flicks of the past few years — such as James Eaves‘ Bane, Rona Mark‘s Strange Girls and Stuart Simpson‘s El Monstro Del Mar — came to us through Spooky Movie.
This year will mark Spooky Movie’s seventh year in existence and it should prove to be a major milestone in the fest’s history as it will move to a new home at the prestigious AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. As the festival busily prepares for their biggest edition yet to be held on October 10-18, we thought we’d check...
This year will mark Spooky Movie’s seventh year in existence and it should prove to be a major milestone in the fest’s history as it will move to a new home at the prestigious AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland. As the festival busily prepares for their biggest edition yet to be held on October 10-18, we thought we’d check...
- 5/2/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Ho Ho Yikes! This year Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film is breaking up its annual Underground Holiday Shopping Guide into a couple of different posts by genre. That way it’s easier to really match up your loved one’s entertainment tastes with the best that the underground has to offer!
First up: If there’s a special someone you know who’s bored with traditional blood and scares, here are some outrageous fright flicks that will make them scream with delight when they see them under the tree.
New on DVD:Strange Girls
One of Bad Lit’s favorite horror flicks of the past five years finally made it to DVD in 2011. In her debut feature, filmmaker Rona Mark created two of the most original on-screen murderers in Virginia and Georgia Gruczechy — twin, socially-reclusive, psychotic girls with their own invented language who kill anyone who they think is deserving.
First up: If there’s a special someone you know who’s bored with traditional blood and scares, here are some outrageous fright flicks that will make them scream with delight when they see them under the tree.
New on DVD:Strange Girls
One of Bad Lit’s favorite horror flicks of the past five years finally made it to DVD in 2011. In her debut feature, filmmaker Rona Mark created two of the most original on-screen murderers in Virginia and Georgia Gruczechy — twin, socially-reclusive, psychotic girls with their own invented language who kill anyone who they think is deserving.
- 12/12/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
One of the best, most unique horror movies of the past few years is at last available on DVD to freak out audiences on a grand scale: Strange Girls, the audacious feature film directing debut by Rona Mark. Right now, the film is available for purchase on Amazon and other web sites.
Twin sisters Virginia and Georgia Gruczechy have grown up their entire lives in an asylum and haven’t spoken a single word to another human being since they were 6 years old. But, now that they’re adults, they’re released back into “normal” society. The only problem is that not only is their behavior extremely strange — these girls are downright homicidal when it comes down to protecting their freaky lifestyle.
Director Mark shot the film in her hometown of Pittsburgh, which is, of course, the hometown of another important horror filmmaking icon: George A. Romero. Although, Strange Girls...
Twin sisters Virginia and Georgia Gruczechy have grown up their entire lives in an asylum and haven’t spoken a single word to another human being since they were 6 years old. But, now that they’re adults, they’re released back into “normal” society. The only problem is that not only is their behavior extremely strange — these girls are downright homicidal when it comes down to protecting their freaky lifestyle.
Director Mark shot the film in her hometown of Pittsburgh, which is, of course, the hometown of another important horror filmmaking icon: George A. Romero. Although, Strange Girls...
- 7/27/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Filmmaker Rona Mark has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for her latest project, Objects Attack, a movie about a tortured woman who discovers that inanimate objects are conspiring against her. And, if that wasn’t bad enough, her boyfriend has been replaced by an exact duplicate who doesn’t even recognize her. Visit the official Kickstarter page here!
Mark is employing a unique method to produce this film. Well, unique in our modern digital age. To shoot the movie, she is using Super 8 black and white reversal film to give it, in Mark’s own words, “a warm, gritty and a little sleazy” look. She is also only employing a miniscule crew of three people.
While Mark has already found a large donor to cover the film stock and processing, she is raising the funds to pay for a high-def transfer of the film, which will then...
Mark is employing a unique method to produce this film. Well, unique in our modern digital age. To shoot the movie, she is using Super 8 black and white reversal film to give it, in Mark’s own words, “a warm, gritty and a little sleazy” look. She is also only employing a miniscule crew of three people.
While Mark has already found a large donor to cover the film stock and processing, she is raising the funds to pay for a high-def transfer of the film, which will then...
- 7/12/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Happy almost Independence Day! Hope everybody is having a great holiday weekend. This first link should put you in the mood. Or not.
This is a little different than my typical Must Reads, but I thoroughly enjoyed Jack Sargeant reprinting his history and analysis of the ’80s “death film” genre, most famously epitomized by the film Faces of Death. I’ve never seen any of these films — nor do I want to — but Jack’s conclusion is fabulous.Filmmaker Waylon Bacon has written a fantastic overview of the Berkeley film scene for CineSource Magazine.Fangoria interviews director Rona Mark on the eve of her awesome Strange Girls finally getting a DVD release. Finally!GorePress.com has a really nice interview with Paul Campion about his first feature film, The Devil’s Rock.IndieWIRE interviews Mike Plante about his new Cinemad distribution venture, who, strangely enough, isn’t in it for the money.
This is a little different than my typical Must Reads, but I thoroughly enjoyed Jack Sargeant reprinting his history and analysis of the ’80s “death film” genre, most famously epitomized by the film Faces of Death. I’ve never seen any of these films — nor do I want to — but Jack’s conclusion is fabulous.Filmmaker Waylon Bacon has written a fantastic overview of the Berkeley film scene for CineSource Magazine.Fangoria interviews director Rona Mark on the eve of her awesome Strange Girls finally getting a DVD release. Finally!GorePress.com has a really nice interview with Paul Campion about his first feature film, The Devil’s Rock.IndieWIRE interviews Mike Plante about his new Cinemad distribution venture, who, strangely enough, isn’t in it for the money.
- 7/3/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Before we get to the list this week, a special note: I got a very nice email this week from Jackie Keen, the wife of legendary British underground filmmaker Jeff Keen. I’ve written about Jeff a few times on Bad Lit, particularly about his troublesome situation. If you’re not familiar with Jeff’s incredible body of work, read that link and do yourself a favor and check out his official website.
This week’s Must Read is Craig Baldwin’s history and understanding of why San Francisco is such a mecca for found-footage filmmakers such as himself. The article, on the Moving Image Source website, is reprinted from the recent book Radical Light. Speaking of Radical Light, Reed Johnson of the L.A. Times previews the Los Angeles screening tour that’s accompanying the book. Also to celebrate Radical Light, Chuck Stephens of Blip Magazine reviews several films...
This week’s Must Read is Craig Baldwin’s history and understanding of why San Francisco is such a mecca for found-footage filmmakers such as himself. The article, on the Moving Image Source website, is reprinted from the recent book Radical Light. Speaking of Radical Light, Reed Johnson of the L.A. Times previews the Los Angeles screening tour that’s accompanying the book. Also to celebrate Radical Light, Chuck Stephens of Blip Magazine reviews several films...
- 1/16/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Edinburgh International Film Festival this afternoon published their full line-up for 2010, and it’s looking good. Check out the website - www.edfilmfest.org.uk
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
- 6/1/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The organizers of Philadelphia’s Backseat Film Festival have a number of new fright features in the lineup for their 2009 event this week. The fest is taking place at the 941 Theater (941 N. Front Street) and runs through next Sunday, March 15.
Among the horror movies being shown are The Burnt House (pictured), a local production making its world premiere. Directed by Adam Ahlbrandt, who also helmed last year’s Lionsgate DVD release Sight, it’s about a couple with a troubled marriage who move to the husband’s rural childhood home, where scary events from the past begin to recur in the present. The Texas vampire opus Blood On The Highway by Barak Epstein, whose Prison-a-go-go won the Best Film prize at the 2004 Backseat Fest, and Blair Rowan, just had its Philly premiere there last night, and upcoming are the Southern survival shocker Resurrection County, from Cellar Door’s Matt Zettell; Rona Mark’s Strange Girls,...
Among the horror movies being shown are The Burnt House (pictured), a local production making its world premiere. Directed by Adam Ahlbrandt, who also helmed last year’s Lionsgate DVD release Sight, it’s about a couple with a troubled marriage who move to the husband’s rural childhood home, where scary events from the past begin to recur in the present. The Texas vampire opus Blood On The Highway by Barak Epstein, whose Prison-a-go-go won the Best Film prize at the 2004 Backseat Fest, and Blair Rowan, just had its Philly premiere there last night, and upcoming are the Southern survival shocker Resurrection County, from Cellar Door’s Matt Zettell; Rona Mark’s Strange Girls,...
- 3/7/2009
- Fangoria
Year: 2007
Release date: Unknown
Director: Rona Mark
Writer: Rona Mark
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ulises Silva
Rating: 7 out of 10
The Bottom Line: A poor man’s John Waters-esque film about twin sisters on a rampage, the film has its clever moments and twists. But it’s a bit unfocused, and like many John Waters films, it leaves you with a sense that many opportunities were missed.
Rona Marx’ film, Strange Girls, doesn’t take long in turning expectation on its head. When we meet Dr. Karp (Adrienne Wehr), the friendly, eager, new head of staff assigned to the Mayfield Psychiatric Institute, the movie very quickly becomes about her. She’s acclimating to her new surroundings, meeting badly dubbed characters (including Max, the gosh-darn-it security guard) who snicker behind her back, “She’s a nice girl. She’ll last five months.” And when she meets her two most...
Release date: Unknown
Director: Rona Mark
Writer: Rona Mark
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ulises Silva
Rating: 7 out of 10
The Bottom Line: A poor man’s John Waters-esque film about twin sisters on a rampage, the film has its clever moments and twists. But it’s a bit unfocused, and like many John Waters films, it leaves you with a sense that many opportunities were missed.
Rona Marx’ film, Strange Girls, doesn’t take long in turning expectation on its head. When we meet Dr. Karp (Adrienne Wehr), the friendly, eager, new head of staff assigned to the Mayfield Psychiatric Institute, the movie very quickly becomes about her. She’s acclimating to her new surroundings, meeting badly dubbed characters (including Max, the gosh-darn-it security guard) who snicker behind her back, “She’s a nice girl. She’ll last five months.” And when she meets her two most...
- 10/13/2008
- QuietEarth.us
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