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SunBreak Music Ed Unleashes Sci-Fi Mayhem at Scarecrow Video Saturday!

Tony Kay — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:18:51 +0000

Enclosed, please find your cordial invitation to watch a melting radioactive cannibal eat people’s faces off, at one of the world’s great movie meccas this Saturday, for free. Yours truly hits the Scarecrow Video Screening Room at 8:00 p.m. that evening to co-host Reel to Real Dementia Movie Night with veteran podcaster and festival programmer … Continue reading →

SIFF 2014: A Cult Cinema Geek’s Take

Tony Kay — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:46:39 +0000

My cult cinema itch usually gets a healthy scratching from the Seattle International Film Festival, and SIFF 2014 proved to be no exception. Between SIFF ’14’s Midnight Adrenaline series and the other genre-informed movies that peppered the festival schedule this year, anyone craving something scary, action-filled, or just plain batshit-crazy found something to love. I couldn’t … Continue reading →

TSB Interview: Director E.L. Katz on Giving Audiences ‘Cheap Thrills’

Tony Kay — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:07:51 +0000

Director E.L. Katz’s debut feature film Cheap Thrills packs a serious wallop. The movie follows Craig (Pat Healy), a down-on-his-luck auto mechanic who loses his job and receives an eviction notice, all in a few seriously crappy hours. Faced with the prospect of homelessness for himself, his wife and his new baby, Craig’s dragged into … Continue reading →

Comedy Horror Film Festival Adds Fundraising to The Funny and Frightful

Tony Kay — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 20:04:10 +0000

Seattle’s nearly as resplendent with film festivals as it is with coffee shops, so it takes a lot for a festival–especially one that’s run on a shoestring budget–to stand out. A scruffy little festival called The BoneBat Comedy of Horrors Film Festival did just that for me last April. The 2013 edition of the festival (their … Continue reading →

Legendary Italian band Goblin gives Seattle Fans a Nerdgasm

Tony Kay — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:17:08 +0000

I’ve covered so many transcendent shows in my three-plus years writing about music for the SunBreak, it’s almost dizzying. But the sold-out set by Italian rock ensemble Goblin last week was something darkly, magically special. I wasn’t the only one who thought so. Neumos was packed to the rafters with horror and prog-rock fans last … Continue reading →

A Chat with The Director of Game of Werewolves

Tony Kay — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:12:31 +0000

"When I watch movies like Underworld and Twilight, every time there's a transformation scene it's like watching the Coyote and the Road Runner[...]But I still watch American Werewolf in London's transformation, and I still shit in my pants."