Set during the holiday season in Chicago, 'Tiger Tail in Blue' (2012) features writer/director Frank V. Ross starring alongside Rebecca Spence in his most unorthodox narrative yet. Watch and read about the film here: www.splittoothmedia.com/ross-tiger-t...
Full of creeping dread and frayed family bonds, Josh Lobo’s ‘I Trapped the Devil’ (2019) is a cracked-mirror portrait of returning home for the holidays.
The 2025 Split Tooth Holiday Special is available now! Watch the online premiere of Jordan Lisi’s 12 AND MORE OMISSIONS with an exclusive video intro and post-film interview with Lisi: www.splittoothmedia.com/12-and-more-...
The 2025 Split Tooth Holiday Special is now available!
Check out the online premiere of Jordan Lisi’s 12 AND MORE OMISSIONS with an intro by @whitecitycinema.bsky.social and post-film conversation between Lisi and Shaun Seneviratne! www.splittoothmedia.com/12-and-more-...
Many are the Christmas stories about anxieties of existence, but 'Dead Man’s Letters' (1986) is one of the only truly existential Christmas movies. Oliver O'Sullivan explores the first entry in Konstantin Lopushansky’s decades-spanning Apocalypse Quartet.
On this day in 2021, we lost Michael Nesmith. Breanna McCann wrote a loving tribute to the late great Monkee and cosmic cowboy by looking back on his time with the First National Band.
Marie Menken’s ‘Lights’ (1966) is a joyous distillation of the beauty that abounds during the holiday season, and the darkness that surrounds it.
Before 'Home Alone,' René Manzor created a darker Christmas home invasion film. Craig Wright explores 'Deadly Games: Dial Code Santa Claus,' in which a child’s wish to see Santa turns into a battle to the death.
Tyler Taormina’s ‘Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point’ (2024) is full of mirth and melancholy, a sprawling yet intimate instant holiday classic.
An update of 'The McPherson Tape,' ‘Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County’ (1998) similarly duped audiences with home video of aliens arriving on Thanksgiving well before the found-footage boom arrived.
Young Fresh Fellows are back with a new version of their new LP 'Loft' for Record Store Day Black Friday! Scott McCaughey (@theeminus5.bsky.social) returns to Split Tooth to discuss the making of the special guest-filled album, recording in Wilco's Loft, and the latest chapter of the band’s career.
Read about Paul Morrissey's 'Flesh for Frankenstein' and 'Blood for Dracula,' both starring the late great Udo Kier (1944-2025): www.splittoothmedia.com/flesh-franke...
The year R.W. Fassbinder died, a group of his collaborators, including Udo Kier, met on an island in the Philippines to make an exploitation film. The production and the resulting movie were anything but what was expected. Read about the making of 'The Island of the Bloody Plantation' (1983) on ST!
Happy to officially announce Make More Movies, a new Split Tooth podcast about independent filmmaking where Aaron Bartuska interviews various DIY artists about what keeps them creating. Listen to the first three episodes now, including the latest installment featuring Aidan Cronin!
One of my favorite pieces I’ve done for @splittoothmedia.bsky.social. Check out my look at Antoine Pellissier’s moody, atmospheric super 8 epic
Filmmaker and illustrator Tyler Rubenfeld explores Michael Almereyda’s 'Happy Here and Now' (2002), a forgotten New Orleans-set mystery produced just before Hurricane Katrina.
Presented on crumpled and torn paper, ‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ is a re-adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers’ that resembles a story being devoured as it passes
We recently unleashed the latest edition of our ever-expanding collection of favorite horror films. See which films our staff, friends, and favorite artists selected for their top 10 lists!
Explore Split Tooth’s Frank V. Ross video interview series! Episodes on 'Quietly on By,' 'Hohokam,' 'Present Company,' 'Audrey the Trainwreck,' and 'Tiger Tail in Blue' available now!
Radu Jude, Romania’s premier absurdist, turns the tale of Dracula into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence.
Aidan Cronin’s films are in conversation with anxieties that we have all faced, or will face in the future. Aaron Bartuska spoke with the filmmaker about his various artistic endeavors and his latest feature, 'The Birds Tell Me All There Is To Know.'
Very happy to share my first contribution to @splittoothmedia.bsky.social's October Horror 2025! I wrote on a favorite, Don Dohler’s FIEND (1980)! You can read it here: splittoothmedia.com/fiend/
Three decades after its premiere swept the UK into a frenzy, 'Ghostwatch' (1992) continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong.
October Horror 2025 has been one for the books and we hate to see it conclude. But the end of October also means we get to unleash the latest edition of our ever-expanding collection of favorite horror films by our staff, friends, and favorite artists! Happy Halloween!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! EVIL PUDDLE, the new disaster epic from Motern Media, starts streaming today on Vimeo! We spoke with Matt Farley and Charles Roxburgh about making the film, Ancient Pilgrim Magic, and their elaborate plan for releasing their next movie.
Three decades after its Halloween night premiere swept the UK into a frenzy, 'Ghostwatch' continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong.
Don Dohler's 'Fiend' (1980) strikes a fascinating balance by being the film that brushes most closely to the filmmaker's own life while being the bleakest of his early features. @brettsplittooth.bsky.social explores Dohler's block party dirge for October Horror 2025!
