Grind is in tha House at the Buried Alive Film Festival
The indie horror film festival showcases films low in budget and high in violence.
The great thing about vintage grindhouse horror movies is that their lack of budgets and big stars, when treated properly, can lend the movies a disturbing, documentary quality. Slick Hollywood productions feel more like fantasies, while the most effective grindhouse movies feel like something that actually happened. Screening Nov. 11-13 at the Plaza Theatre, the Buried Alive Film Festival of indie horror movies doesn’t cater exclusively to retro-grindhouse films. Featuring five features and 30 shorts, the festival definitely gives props the trend of modern throwbacks to the cheap B-movies of 1960s and 1970s drive-ins.
One of the most intriguing entries, the horror-comedy Chillerama, pays homage to as many schlocky genres as possible. Set at a drive-in, the anthology includes: “I Was a Teenage Werebear,” a spoof of Rebel Without a Cause, Grease and The Twilight Saga and set in 1962; Wadzilla, a parody of 1950s monster movies; “The Diary of Anne Frankenstein,” satirizing the Diary of Anne Frank and Hitler’s Germany; and and “Zom B Movie”, a spoof of zombie films. Here’s the trailer: