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Prolific indie filmmaker Henrique Couto, who credits include Boggy Creek: The Series, Babysitter Massacre, and several Christmas-themed horror shorts we’ve shared over the years, has now brought us Found Footage: The Series, which just arrived on the Tubi streaming service. (You can watch the series for free at This Link.) The first season of this found footage horror anthology series consists of eight episodes from six different directors.

The series has the following synopsis: Take an analog journey to Hell. Press play if you dare as you experience tales of horror, murder, and monsters! In the tradition of Creepshow and Paranormal Activity comes a new dimension in terror!

Couto was one of the directors who worked on Found Footage: The Series. Other contributors include Dan Wilder (Babysitter Massacre: Heavy Metal), newcomers Tim Castle and Joe Solmo, Jb Sapienza (My Name Is Jonah), and Eric Widing (Primordial). Episodes were written by Wilder,...

The 7th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival will screen a smorgasbord of cult flicks, horror movies, comedies and provocative documentaries on September 19-27 at The Screening Room in Tucson, Az.

Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.

Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.

Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...

The 8th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is a power-packed event featuring outrageous cult films, provocative documentaries and wild short films that will run September 4-7 at its usual haunt, The Factory Theater.

Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.

Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.

Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.

Jorge Torres-Torres...