Buddy (2026) & Adult Swimming at Overlook Film Fest One of the unofficial themes of this year’s Overlook Film Festival was the Adult Swimmification of the modern horror comedy, which has gradually emerged as a trend in the last decade of the g…

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Hokum (2026) & Ghostless Hauntings at Overlook Film Fest Damien McCarthy quickly became a legend at The Overlook when the festival screened his 2024 spookshow Oddity to a loudly reactive crowd, then snuck in one last scare on the way out by propping up i…

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Podcast #262: Habit (1995) & Overlook Film Fest 2026 Welcome to Episode #263 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a selection of genre films that screened at this year’s Overlook Film Festival, includ…

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The Furious (2026) Every year at Overlook Film Fest, you’ll overhear some pedantic grumblings about what films do or do not technically qualify as horror, which is ostensibly the festival’s main programmi…

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Boorman and the Devil (2026) As much as I love the movies, I hate moviegoing audiences – at least en masse. Chatting with individual festival attendees at this year’s Overlook Film Fest was as warm & friendly as alwa…

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Leviticus (2026) Looking back, it’s impossible to fully measure the impact that David Robert Mitchell’s indie horror phenomenon It Follows has had on the past decade of high-concept, mid-budget genre fi…

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Obsession (2026) Is there a more dependable path to horror filmmaking success right now than getting your start in sketch comedy? Following in the recent footsteps of sketch-turned-horror comedians Jordan Peele, Za…

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Faces of Death (2026) Many longtime Scream fans were horrified by what happened to their beloved slasher franchise this year, after the brand chose to self-implode rather than to employ actors vocally opposed to the ong…

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Dooba Dooba (2026) As often as it is reclaimed by the very people it others as monstrous villains, horror has always been a largely reactionary genre. You don’t have to scratch too hard at the surface of any cl…

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All You Need is Kill (2026) The only manga I’ve ever read was an adaptation of the 2004 sci-fi novel All You Need Is Kill, and that’s because it was a gift. A family member who lives his life much deeper in the an…

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Swampflix’s Top 10 Films of 2025 1. Sinners — A truly American horror story: a beer & blues-fueled gangsters vs ghouls battle set against endless fields of cotton and all the commodified evil they represent. This is the movie …

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Halloween Streaming Report 2025 Halloween is rapidly approaching, which means many cinephiles & genre nerds out there are currently planning to cram in as many scary movies as we can over the next month. In that spirit, here’…

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The Overlook Film Festival 2025, Ranked & Reviewed Self-described as “a summer camp for genre fans,” The Overlook Film Festival has quickly become the best of New Orleans’s local film fests . . . as long as you’re a total sicko. I consi…

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Grand Theft Hamlet (2025) Making art is hard work, even when you’re just goofing off with your friends. No matter how silly a collaborative art project is on a conceptual level—a novelty punk band, an amateur movie bl…

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Chocolate Babies (1996) Would it be too redundant to call a movie “the ACT UP version of Born in Flames”? Born in Flames was already a pro-queer, pro-safe-sex, pro-sex-worker activism piece made in New York Ci…

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Rats! (2025) Hollywood studios are struggling to get back on their feet after years of being knocked to the ground by blows like the COVID-19 pandemic, labor union strikes, and the decline of the Marvel Cinemat…

Rats! (2025)

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Striptease (1996) This year’s Oscar race for Best Actress has narrowed down to two fierce combatants: Demi Moore for her career-reviving role as an aged-out aerobics TV show host in Coralie Fargeat’s The…

Striptease (1996)

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Naughty New Orleans (1954) It’s Carnival time in New Orleans, when civic pride is its most glowingly beautiful. This is not always an easy city to live in, but it is an easy city to love, and Mardi Gras is our annual r…

Naughty New Orleans (1954) — A vintage Bourbon Street stiptease revue set to somber jazz and occasionally interrupted by hack comedy routines & whispers of a plot
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Headcrab zombie in half life

Mr bean with a dang turkey stuck on his head

Many have compared the headcrabs in half-life to alien but i think we all know the real inspiration

Lagniappe Podcast: The Conversation (1974) For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Boomer & Brandon discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 surveillance paranoia thriller The Conversation, which recently screened at Pryta…

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Armand (2025) There is currently an American remake of Andrei Żuławski’s monstrous divorce meltdown Possession in the works, to be directed by Smile’s Parker Finn and produced by Robert Pattinson. Th…

Armand — There's enough evidence to argue that Isabelle Adjani's interpretive-dance tunnel freakout in Possession is the most influential movie scene of the current moment. It's now so ubiquitous that it's influencing procedural dramas about tense parent-teacher conferences

George Dureau: New Orleans Artist (2023) I have been aware of George Dureau’s legacy as a local artist for as long as I have been aware of local art, but until now I’ve only ever seen a toned-down, smoothed-out presentation of…

George Dureau: New Orleans Artist (2023)

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Heart Eyes (2025) Christopher Landon has his heart set on reviving the slasher, and he only has one plan on how to pull that off. In Happy Death Day, Landon combined the slasher with the time-loop Groundhog’s …

Heart Eyes (2025)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Please Stand By (2017) For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the 2017 road-trip dramedy Please Stand By, starring Dakota Fanning as an autistic Star Trek obsessive on the …

Lagniappe Podcast: Please Stand By (2017)

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Dark Match (2025) Very early on in the first year of Swampflix, I reviewed a bad-on-purpose horror comedy called WolfCop, about a werewolf who’s “half man, half wolf, and all cop”. I remember havin…

A bloody, straight-to-Shudder pro wrestling horror from the director of WolfCop

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Companion (2025) It’s no surprise that Companion is advertised by association with producer Zach Creggers’s previous film Barbarian, as there’s a lot of fun being had by mixing an inconsistent light tone with a gen…

Companion (2025)

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Feels Good Man (2020) The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidential term have surprisingly been defined more by the daily stunts & shenanigans of unelected government official Elon Musk than they h…

Feels Good Man (2020) is a documentary about the memeification of a cartoon stoner frog that somehow does a better job explaining America's current Nazi resurgence than any other film I've seen. Evil has never been so inane

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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025) Nearly ten years ago, a trove of presumed lost photographic prints and negatives belonging to the late exiled South African photographer Ernest Cole was discovered in several Swiss bank deposit box…

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025)

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Podcast #231: 187 (1997) & Inner-City Schools Welcome to Episode #231 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon discuss a grab bag of 90s movies about well-meaning teachers confronted with the violent c…

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The Colors Within (2025) The coming-of-age anime drama The Colors Within is about a teenager with extreme synesthesia who forms a synthpop band to express her unusual relationship with color through song. It’s a much…

Exceptionally quiet for a story about the formation a rock n roll synth pop band, and exceptionally pale for an animated movie about the divine beauty of color. When all that restraint melts away during the final performance, though, it feels good enough to make you cry
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