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As Eric and I continue our Chattanooga Film Festival coverage, we have with us tonight very special guest (and friend of The Gargyle Podcast), Eric Pennycoff - writer and director of Sadistic Intentions! We met Eric at the world premiere of Sadistic Intentions at the Knoxville Horror Film Festival and quickly fell in love with his film!  It was one of the standout films at KHFF and one of the films from CFF that we very strongly recommended people see!!  Even though we have covered Sadistic Intentions on the podcast before (and will be covering again in an upcoming CFF review episode), we genuinely love the film...plus, we are always happy when Eric is able to join us to discuss a bit of horror!  So, join us as we discuss Sadistic Intentions and the Chattanooga Film Festival with one of our favorite people, Eric Pennycoff!!

If you enjoy this episode, be sure to check back soon for more cinematic discussions on The Gargyle Podcast as we continue our coverage of the 2019 Chattanooga Film Festival!!  Our next episode will be the first part of a two-part episode covering Two Guys, a Girl, and a Baaaaaaad Situation films from CFF!!

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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Tonight's set of Chattanooga Film Festival film reviews covers four films that are drastically different in tone, but all share a common thread of "obsession."  And while the obsessions in each of these films led to some pretty terrible outcomes, our obsessions with these movies leads to four pretty great cinematic experiences!!  So join us as we try In Fabric on for size, bask in the neon slime of Vice Squad, get drawn into the temptation of Girl on the Third Floor, and give all of our in-tact thumbs up to Fingers!!

If you enjoy this episode, be sure to check back soon for more cinematic discussions on The Gargyle Podcast as we continue our coverage of the 2019 Chattanooga Film Festival!!  Upcoming episodes will include reviews of all of the movies that played at CFF that we were able to see (and potentially another interview or two with special CFF guests - though, not actually recorded during CFF).

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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Eric and I have already talked at length about how much we absolutely LOVE the Chattanooga Film Festival (about 1/3 of 2019 will end up being CFF coverage)!  But, along with the amazing experiences of meeting some awesome people and podcasting with some of our favorite podcasts, we actually did watch some movies at the 2019 Chattanooga Film Festival.  So, now that all of the interviews we did at CFF have been posted, tonight's episode starts our reviews of the films that we were able to see this year.  Even though we were not able to see nearly as many movies as we would have liked to have seen, if we were to individual episodes for every review...we would either need to be putting out daily episodes for a couple of weeks, or our coverage would extend way too far past CFF (we hate that we are already as late as we are getting our reviews out!).  So, rather than individual episodes for every review, we will be grouping several reviews together per episode.  But this does not mean that we are going to short change our coverage - we are still doing full reviews for each film, discussing them in terms of prior information and expectations, technical components, emotional reactions, rewatchability, and who we recommend the movie for.  So, kicking off our CFF 2019 reviews, tonight's episode will cover the family friendly-ish films of Freaks, Deadtectives, Body at Brighton Rock, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon!

If you enjoy this episode, be sure to check back soon for more cinematic discussions on The Gargyle Podcast as we continue our coverage of the 2019 Chattanooga Film Festival!!  Upcoming episodes will include reviews of all of the movies that played at CFF that we were able to see (and potentially another interview or two with special CFF guests - though, not actually recorded during CFF).

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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Rounding out the interviews that Eric and I did at the Chattanooga Film Festival is our interview with Mallory O'Meara, author of The Lady From the Black Lagoon:  Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick.  And just like our interviews with Brian Salisbury (of Junkfood Cinema) and Rebekah McKendry, Rob Galluzzo, and Elric Kane (of Shock Waves), talking with Mallory was one of the things that we were most excited about for CFF 2019 (and all of which were part of the teaser announcement before any of the films were even announced)!!  Anyone who has ever met me and talked about movies with me for more than about five minutes knows that The Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of my favorite movies and probably my favorite Universal Monster (I mean, all of the monsters are pretty great...but there is something just so unique about the creature).  And if you've listened to any of our pre-coverage episodes leading up to CFF 2019, you know that both Eric and I absolutely LOVED Mallory's book!!  So, it was an incredible honor to be able to talk horror, the creature, Milicent, and social justice with Mallory O'Meara!!  If you haven't yet, I strongly recommend picking up a copy of The Lady from the Black Lagoon - or, support your local library and check out a copy (if they don't have it, request that they get it!)!  Eric and I loved the book and we can't wait to see what else Mallory has in store for the future!!

If you enjoy this episode, be sure to check back soon for more cinematic discussions on The Gargyle Podcast as we continue our coverage of the 2019 Chattanooga Film Festival!!  Upcoming episodes will include reviews of all of the movies that played at CFF that we were able to see (and potentially another interview or two with special CFF guests - though, not actually recorded during CFF).

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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While I want to just have the description of this episode be "Read the description of the Shock Waves interview, but intensify the silliness exponentially!!" - which would be completely accurate (Junkfood Cinema was part of the CFF teaser announcement and it was one of the things that we were most excited about for the entire fest because Jukfood Cinema, like Shock Waves, is one of our absolute favorite podcasts!!) - that does not fully do justice to the excitement that Eric and I had in interviewing Brian Salisbury of Junkfood Cinema!!  The giddiness and genuine love (not to mention their wealth of cinematic knowledge) that Brian Salisbury and C. Robert Cargill have for movies (especially movies that are not always loved by the majority of movie-goers) makes each and every episode informative and endlessly entertaining!!  Junkfood Cinema has a tremendous impact on The Gargyle Podcast, so it was an incredible honor to be able to podcast with Brian and spend time with him at the Chattanooga Film Festival!!  

If you enjoy this episode, be sure to check back soon for more cinematic discussions on The Gargyle Podcast as we continue our coverage of the 2019 Chattanooga Film Festival!!  Upcoming episodes will include another special episode recorded during the Chattanooga Film Festival - with special guest Mallory O'Meara (author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon) - as well as reviews of all of the movies that played at CFF that we were able to see.

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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Eric and I have been talking about how excited we were about Shock Waves being at the Chattanooga Film Festival ever since they were first announced in the teaser announcement a few months ago...and with good reason!  With interesting guests, discussions of a wide variety of horror movies, and hosts whose personalities could easily single-handedly carry the entire podcast (but thankfully they combine their forces to form the Captain Planet of horror podcasts), Shock Waves is easily one of our favorite podcasts!  So it was an extreme honor and pleasure to be able to podcast with Rebekah McKendry, Rob Galluzzo, and Elric Kane (unfortunately Ryan Turek was not able to be there)!!  In fact, I was so excited to be podcasting with Shock Waves that I even forgot how I started the podcast (even though I podcasted with Elric a few months ago at the Knoxville Horror Film Festival and was in communication with Rebekah in getting the interview lined up, I was still overwhelmed with excitement).  So, it should go without saying that interviewing Shock Waves was absolutely one best experiences of this year's Chattanooga Film Festival!!

If you enjoy this episode, be sure to check back soon for more cinematic discussions on The Gargyle Podcast as we continue our coverage of the 2019 Chattanooga Film Festival!!  Upcoming episodes will include special episodes recorded during the Chattanooga Film Festival - with special guests Brian Salisbury (from Junkfood Cinema) and Mallory O'Meara (author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon) - as well as reviews of all of the movies that played at CFF that we were able to see.

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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We interrupt our Chattanooga Film Festival coverage to bring you exciting news....Tigers are not Afraid has been picked up by Shudder and will be available later this year!!  Tigers are not Afraid is an absolutely amazing movie and I have not been able to stop talking about it since I saw it at the 2018 Chattanooga Film Festival (so, I guess it technically still kinda fits with our CFF coverage), so Eric and I could not pass up the opportunity to share our excitement (even though we recorded this as soon as we found out, we are a bit delayed in actually getting it posted)!!  This is just a mini-sode to discuss the announcement...but rest assured that there will definitely be a full review episode once Tigers are not Afraid is released!

 Be sure to check back soon as we continue on with our Chattanooga Film Festival 2019 coverage!  Upcoming episodes will include reviews of all of the movies that played at CFF that we were able to see, as well as special episodes recorded during CFF - with special guests Brian Salisbury (from Junkfood Cinema), Rebekah McKendry, Rob Galluzzo, & Elric Kane (from Shock Waves), and Mallory O'Meara (author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon)!!

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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The Chattanooga Film Festival is one of my favorite times of year and the days following the end of the fest are always bittersweet for me. I always hate walking out of the theater after the last movie of the weekend and saying goodbye to all of the people I've met, but am always exceedingly grateful for the experiences I've had and the friends I've made.  There is just something magical about how so much creativity, camaraderie, and love and passion for cinema all converges at the Chattanooga Film Festival.  It is a labor of love, so a tremendous "thank you" and "y'all freaking rock!" to Chris Dortch and everyone that was involved in making CFF happen once again!!  And in this episode of The Gargyle Podcast, Eric and I give an overview of the weekend and recount some of our favorite stories/experiences in an attempt to explain what makes the Chattanooga Film Festival so amazing!!

This is just the first of many episodes in our CFF 2019 coverage!  Upcoming episodes will include reviews of all of the movies that played at CFF that we were able to see, as well as special episodes recorded during the Chattanooga Film Festival - with special guests Brian Salisbury (from Junkfood Cinema), Rebekah McKendry, Rob Galluzzo, & Elric Kane (from Shock Waves), and Mallory O'Meara (author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon)!!  So be sure to check back soon for more cinematic discussions on The Gargyle Podcast as we continue our coverage of the 2019 Chattanooga Film Festival!!

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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With less than 24 hours until the start of the Chattanooga Film Festival, Eric and I are excited beyond words about tonight's episode and our very special guest - Crispin Glover!!  On Friday night, 4/12, starting at 7:30 at the Chattanooga Theater Center, Crispin Glover will be doing a live dramatic presentation, followed by a screening of his film:  It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE!, followed by a book signing!  One of the things that is so wonderful about the Chattanooga Film Festival is the cinematic experience of viewing a film with an audience in a theater...and the extremely unique experience of viewing Crispin Glover's presentation and his film is one that you will most certainly NOT want to miss!!  Crispin is deeply passionate about his work and I am certain that his passion will shine through in a very palpable way!  I was already excited about being able to view his presentation and his film.  But, after this interview, my excitement has grown exponentially!  So be sure join us this Friday for what will surely be a once in a lifetime experience!!

For tickets or more information (including complete lists of films screened each year) go to chattfilmfest.org - and be sure to follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and/or Twitter to stay up to date on announcements for CFF 2019.

And be sure to come back soon for more cinematic discussions in our coverage of the Chattanooga Film Festival on The Gargyle Podcast!!  

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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The Chattanooga Film Festival is just over a week away (April 11-14)!!  Eric and I have been spending the last few episodes pre-gaming CFF by covering some highlights from previous years of CFF and discussing announcements for this year as they were released, including brief overviews of each of the films and events - and practically every single announcement only had us more and more excited!!  But, now that the schedule for the weekend has been released, we are faced with some tough decisions... with an incredibly solid lineup of feature films, short films, live podcasts, workshops, presentations, and special events, putting together a personal schedule for the weekend is no easy task!!  In this episode of The Gargyle Podcast, Eric and I work through our schedule for the weekend, discussing the films and events that we plan to attend and what some of the deciding factors are for us.   Obviously, not everyone has the same taste in movies.  So, for some people, the decision of which films to attend is not a difficult decision.  But, if you are like Eric and myself and enjoy cinema in all of it's forms...and if trying to plan your time at CFF is giving you some mild (or major) anxiety... then hopefully our discussion will help you work through your personal schedule as well!  And if you can only make it to just a few films and are trying to decide on the absolute best, listen to our previous episode where we interview Chris Dortch (director of Chattanooga Film Festival) and ask him which films he personally recommends as absolute "must see" films!!  Also, there are plenty of free events and workshops as part of the Chattanooga Film Festival!!  

Check out the full schedule and purchase your tickets at  chattfilmfest.org - and be sure to follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and/or Twitter to stay up to date on announcements for CFF 2019.

And be sure to come back soon for more cinematic discussions on The Gargyle Podcast!!  Follow us on Facebook and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!!

The Gargyle Podcast is sponsored by Central Cinema and the Knoxville Horror Film Festival!!  Submissions for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival are now open!  Submit your film at filmfreeway.com and be sure to follow KHFF on Facebook for more news and announcements!   View Central Cinema's lineup, showtimes, and purchase tickets at  centralcinema865.com. 

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