Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Part 1 w/ Allison of Who's There? A Podcast About Horror Fans
Release Date: 06/30/2025
Episode 63: Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Films at First Sight
We are back and so is Steve who has brought another thrilling sci-fi gem. This time it is Joseph Sargent's Colossus: The Forbin Project, a film that wonders what the consqeuences might be if one were to give an AI supercomputer control of the US defense systems. So, join us as we explore this startlingly prescient film and lament our own modern technological hellscape! <Stares into the doomscrolling black void of social media for solace>
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Short Ends: The Angel (2024)
Films at First Sight
Short Ends is back and this time we are taking a look at the Mormon Folk Horror short film, "The Angel" from Barrett Burgin and Jess Burgin. Will Doug Jones bring us to salvation or will we suffer a fate worse than we ever imagined?! Tune in to find out!
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Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Part 2 w/ Rachel Shatto from MovieJawn
Films at First Sight
Rachel Shatto from MovieJawn and The More Deadly Podcast joins us to wrap up our coverage of the 2025 Chattanooga Film Festival which was a whirling dervish of fun. We touch on a slew of feature films such as Pater Noster and the Mission of Light, In the Mouth, Solvent, Alan at Night, Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma, and Abigail Before Beatrice, as well as some short films including, "Krakens Maw", "You're an Angel", and "A Haunting at Alma Drive". Check it out!
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Episode 62: Faust (1926) & Becoming Nosferatu w/ Matthew Sorrento
Films at First Sight
We may have made a deal with the Devil because fortune smiles on us once again! Matthew Sorrento returns to the show where we dive into German expressionist cinema, his latest collection of original stories, Becoming Nosferatu: Stories Inspired by German Silent Horror Films, as well as F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926). And what is a silent film without its accompaniment score? Joe tries to capture the dark and hellish soundscape that The Silent Light provided alongside the film down at this year's Chattanooga Film Festival. Does he succeed or will he be banished to the abode of the damned?! Tune in...
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Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Part 1 w/ Allison of Who's There? A Podcast About Horror Fans
Films at First Sight
We hope you campers are having a great start to the Summer! As is our annual tradition, we went off to Cinephile Summer Camp down by the Tennesee River, to attend the great Chattanooga Film Festival. First up in our widespread look at the festivities, Joe is joined by friend of the show, Allison from Who's There? A Podcast About Horror Fans, where they chat about Hotspring Sharkattack AKA Onsen shâku, Portal to Hell, King Baby, and some short films, C.U.N.T. (See You Next Tuesday), and REM. Check it out and stay tuned for more Chatt Film Fest coverage!!
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Short Ends: The Confection (2025) CFF 2025
Films at First Sight
We're at the Chattanooga Film Festival for another episode of Short Ends! Join us as Christopher Jason Bell bakes up a tale of cake, grief, and international espionage in his new short film, The Confection. Will we find it to be a delectable treat or a crumby mess? Tune in to find out!
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Episode 61: Identikit AKA The Driver's Seat (1974)
Films at First Sight
Caitlin from the Plug It Up Podcast joins us as we take a disorienting vaction to Italy with Elizbeth Taylor in Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's Identikit AKA The Driver's Seat. Will we know just what the hell is going on by the end of it or will we mix our diets with our orgasms and ruin the whole messy affair? Tune in to find out!!
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Episode 60: Operation Finale (2018)
Films at First Sight
We're back and Graham has us traveling down to Argentina when we chat about 2018's Nazi hunting thriller, Operation Finale. Come for a smoldering Oscar Isaac and stay for what is potentially the worst first date that we've covered thus far!
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Episode 59: Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987)
Films at First Sight
We're back and we brought some friends with us! Casey from Bloody Good Horror and Alyssa from the Silver Scream Podcast join Joe and Graham to chat about Juraj Jakubisko's monster mashup Freckled Max and the Spooks. Will this wildly inventive adaptation of Frankenstein's Aunt give us life or will the gang break out the torches and pitchforks and demand an end to the madness? Tune in to find out!!
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Short Ends: Soy leyenda (1967)
Films at First Sight
We're back with another episode of Short Ends! Join us as we open up the crypt and dive into 1967's Soy leyenda, a moody adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend. And of course this means we have to sort through the various other attempts at this wonderfully dark tale of lonliness, isolation, and vampires. Check it out!
info_outlineWe hope you campers are having a great start to the Summer! As is our annual tradition, we went off to Cinephile Summer Camp down by the Tennesee River, to attend the great Chattanooga Film Festival. First up in our widespread look at the festivities, Joe is joined by friend of the show, Allison from Who's There? A Podcast About Horror Fans, where they chat about Hotspring Sharkattack AKA Onsen shâku, Portal to Hell, King Baby, and some short films, C.U.N.T. (See You Next Tuesday), and REM. Check it out and stay tuned for more Chatt Film Fest coverage!!