Unearthed Films is proud to present Morris County. Award-winning writer/director Matthew Garrett (Beating Hearts) presents a trilogy of thematically connected stories as gruesome as they are tragic and heartfelt. In a performance praised by both Fangoria and Rue Morgue, Darcy Miller is Ellie, a damaged teenage girl harboring a terrible secret. Through the course of one traumatic day we learn what led this innocent girl down a path of self-destruction from which there is no … Continue reading →
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- 11/27/2014
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
Welcome to the third installment of my ongoing series of articles that collects great horror short films.
If you have not already done so, please check out the first two installments of this series “Watch 15 Great Horror Short Films” and its follow-up “Watch 13 More Great Horror Short Films” not only because you’ll love them but also because films and filmmakers mentioned in those articles are referenced in this one.
Short form horror aficionados will also want to check out a recent article I wrote called “The Greatest Horror Anthology Film Segments of All Time”.
As you readers know, the horror short film is an artistic endeavor that can serve as a film industry calling card. A perfect example of this is the recent announcement of the feature film version of Can Evrenol’s superb horror short Baskin.
Combine successes like that with the very strong film festival presence of...
If you have not already done so, please check out the first two installments of this series “Watch 15 Great Horror Short Films” and its follow-up “Watch 13 More Great Horror Short Films” not only because you’ll love them but also because films and filmmakers mentioned in those articles are referenced in this one.
Short form horror aficionados will also want to check out a recent article I wrote called “The Greatest Horror Anthology Film Segments of All Time”.
As you readers know, the horror short film is an artistic endeavor that can serve as a film industry calling card. A perfect example of this is the recent announcement of the feature film version of Can Evrenol’s superb horror short Baskin.
Combine successes like that with the very strong film festival presence of...
- 11/7/2014
- by Terek Puckett
- SoundOnSight
Matthew Garrett's Morris County anthology will be available on March 18th via the Unearthed Films Online DVD Shop, and also members of the Beneath the Underground Facebook page will have an opportunity to purchase a "Bootleg Edition" DVD of the film. Here are some stills, the trailer, and more details.
From the Press Release:
Award-winning writer/director Matthew Garrett (Beating Hearts) presents a trilogy of thematically connected stories as gruesome as they are tragic and heartfelt.
- Darcy Miller is "Ellie," a damaged teenage girl harboring a terrible secret. Through the course of one traumatic day, we learn what led this innocent girl down a path of self-destruction from which there is no return.
- In "The Family Rubin," an upper middle-class Jewish family struggles to keep up appearances as their seemingly perfect life begins to crack at the seams. Albie Selznick (Ricochet, "The Young & The Restless") leads an...
From the Press Release:
Award-winning writer/director Matthew Garrett (Beating Hearts) presents a trilogy of thematically connected stories as gruesome as they are tragic and heartfelt.
- Darcy Miller is "Ellie," a damaged teenage girl harboring a terrible secret. Through the course of one traumatic day, we learn what led this innocent girl down a path of self-destruction from which there is no return.
- In "The Family Rubin," an upper middle-class Jewish family struggles to keep up appearances as their seemingly perfect life begins to crack at the seams. Albie Selznick (Ricochet, "The Young & The Restless") leads an...
- 2/24/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Morris County, the feature length anthology film directed by Matthew Garrett is not easy to categorize - and that is one of its strengths. It's a drama - but the stories venture into such dark, bitter, raw, and rattling territory, the film is custom built more for horror fans than fans of conventional dramas. At the same time, horror fans who gravitate toward a typical mainstream flavor of the genre may find Morris County a little too daring, somber, and unflinching for their tastes. What I admire most about the film is that it refuses to use the cookie cutter. Instead, writer/director Garrett let the film evolve into its own unique beast - and for that, at the very least, Morris County deserves your attention.
Given the nonconforming nature of this film, it's easy to see why finding appropriate distribution for Morris County (which has been complete for some...
Given the nonconforming nature of this film, it's easy to see why finding appropriate distribution for Morris County (which has been complete for some...
- 2/14/2014
- by Eric Stanze
- FEARnet
Matthew Garrett is a director who hit the ground running with his first short film Ellie (2006), an unsettling movie that gathered much praise when it made the film festival rounds. His second film, the suspenseful and enigmatic Beating Hearts (2010), won Best Short Film at the Boston Underground Film Festival before it found a home here at FEARnet (click here to watch it). Garrett's first feature film is an anthology called Morris County, slated for release later this year. Garrett kindly took some time to discuss with FEARnet his past, present, and future as a film director. FEARnet: What inspired the story of your first film, Ellie? Garrett: It's difficult to discuss the news story that inspired the film without giving away part of the ending, but I will say that the themes of self-destruction, sexual abuse, and the inherent hypocrisy of organized religion were definitely on my mind. What events...
- 9/18/2013
- by Eric Stanze
- FEARnet
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Previously on Once Upon A Time, Cora broke Regina's heart by ripping her beard's boyfriend's heart out, Rumpelstiltskin started teaching Young Regina about magic and we found out that Cora and Hook are in cahoots.
As if to apologize for the lack of ladies in last week's episode, we open on Team Badass, traipsing around what's left of the Enchanted Forest. Aurora's whining a little bit (which is fine because she's adorable), but Mulan interrupts when she notices no one is guarding their hideaway. They realize it's because everyone is dead, hearts ripped out of their chest — that is, everyone except one person. They dig a twitching arm out from under the heap of bodies and discover it's the one and only Captain Eyeliner.
Meanwhile, in Storybrooke, Charming punches Dr. Whale in the face for sleeping with Mary Margaret, even though he exclaims, "We Were Cursed.
Previously on Once Upon A Time, Cora broke Regina's heart by ripping her beard's boyfriend's heart out, Rumpelstiltskin started teaching Young Regina about magic and we found out that Cora and Hook are in cahoots.
As if to apologize for the lack of ladies in last week's episode, we open on Team Badass, traipsing around what's left of the Enchanted Forest. Aurora's whining a little bit (which is fine because she's adorable), but Mulan interrupts when she notices no one is guarding their hideaway. They realize it's because everyone is dead, hearts ripped out of their chest — that is, everyone except one person. They dig a twitching arm out from under the heap of bodies and discover it's the one and only Captain Eyeliner.
Meanwhile, in Storybrooke, Charming punches Dr. Whale in the face for sleeping with Mary Margaret, even though he exclaims, "We Were Cursed.
- 10/29/2012
- by PunkyStarshine
- AfterEllen.com
Filmmaker Matthew Garrett announced recently that he’s begun work on transforming his hit horror short film Beating Hearts into a feature-length project. To help celebrate the news, please watch the unsettling short above, which will only be online until January 1st, 2012.
Plus, Garrett was gracious enough to grant Bad Lit an exclusive interview on his plans for his first feature-length narrative project, as well as describe the genesis of the short.
(Bad Lit previously reviewed Beating Hearts earlier this year, describing it as “an absolutely terrifying movie.” We also reviewed Garrett’s feature Morris County, which consists of a triptych of shorts: Ellie, The Family Rubin and Elmer & Iris.)
Bad Lit: Making a popular horror short film, then producing a feature film version of it seems to be a popular move these days — ala The Pact and Excision. How did making a feature version of your short Beating Hearts come up?...
Plus, Garrett was gracious enough to grant Bad Lit an exclusive interview on his plans for his first feature-length narrative project, as well as describe the genesis of the short.
(Bad Lit previously reviewed Beating Hearts earlier this year, describing it as “an absolutely terrifying movie.” We also reviewed Garrett’s feature Morris County, which consists of a triptych of shorts: Ellie, The Family Rubin and Elmer & Iris.)
Bad Lit: Making a popular horror short film, then producing a feature film version of it seems to be a popular move these days — ala The Pact and Excision. How did making a feature version of your short Beating Hearts come up?...
- 12/21/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Beating Hearts Short Film, Posters. Matthew Garret‘s Beating Hearts (2010) short film, short film posters star Peter Coriarty, Gianna Bruzzese, and Georgeanne Bruzzese. Beating Hearts‘ plot synopsis: “Beating Hearts chronicles the aftermath of a great horror committed by monsters. A harrowing take on family ties, true love and murder.”
The Beating Hearts short film posters:
Beating Hearts Short Film Poster
Beating Hearts Short Film Poster
I do not think I have seen a horror short film this well rounded since the Blinky (2010) Short Film was released. If you have seen that, Beating Hearts is on that level, maybe even past it.
*Spoiler* When the little girl leans in to kiss the grandfather and he quickly turns his head, I thought: “Ooohhh”. *Spoiler Ends* This short film has subtext and a lot of thought behind it.
A more critical look at Beating Hearts:
A quiet naturalism pulsates from the psycho-sexual abyss that is Beating Hearts…...
The Beating Hearts short film posters:
Beating Hearts Short Film Poster
Beating Hearts Short Film Poster
I do not think I have seen a horror short film this well rounded since the Blinky (2010) Short Film was released. If you have seen that, Beating Hearts is on that level, maybe even past it.
*Spoiler* When the little girl leans in to kiss the grandfather and he quickly turns his head, I thought: “Ooohhh”. *Spoiler Ends* This short film has subtext and a lot of thought behind it.
A more critical look at Beating Hearts:
A quiet naturalism pulsates from the psycho-sexual abyss that is Beating Hearts…...
- 12/20/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
I first saw Matthew Garret's Beating Hearts back in October for my preview of Peter Gutierrez's Daggers: The Short Festival of Short Horror, wherein I had this to say:a quiet naturalism pulsates from the psycho-sexual abyss that is Beating Hearts; a film that turned a lot of heads at this year's Boston Underground Film Fest. Garrett digs in all four corners of the storytelling sandbox, crafting a rich yet simple narrative that recalls the early works of Polanski and Craven just as much as it does a "headline of the week" tragedy or Stephen King story. With a deft hand he guides his leads, Peter Coriarty and Gianna Bruzzese into some very dark territory, proving that the dead eyes of youth can be a dangerously...
- 12/19/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Marking its third year of bringing the fear, Sheffield’s biggest horror film festival, Celluloid Screams, returns to the Showroom Cinema for another weekend of bloody thrills and spills. Marked with a variety of special guests including the venerable Richard Stanley and a quartet of classic screenings any horror fan will devour, we’ve got the list of what to expect when the doors open between Friday 21st and Sunday 23rd October.
Feature Films – Official Selection
Opening Gala: Inbred
Director: Alex Chandon | UK | 2011 | 95 mins
With the cast of Inbred - Jo Hartley, Paddy Doherty, Seamus O’Neill, Terry Haywood, Chris Waller, Nadine Mulkerrin and James Burrows – and line producer Rob Speranza in person.
From director Alex Chandon comes Inbred, a deliriously un-pc gorefest that adds a warped new dimension to the notion of Northern hospitality. Four young offenders and their care workers embark upon a weekend of community service and...
Feature Films – Official Selection
Opening Gala: Inbred
Director: Alex Chandon | UK | 2011 | 95 mins
With the cast of Inbred - Jo Hartley, Paddy Doherty, Seamus O’Neill, Terry Haywood, Chris Waller, Nadine Mulkerrin and James Burrows – and line producer Rob Speranza in person.
From director Alex Chandon comes Inbred, a deliriously un-pc gorefest that adds a warped new dimension to the notion of Northern hospitality. Four young offenders and their care workers embark upon a weekend of community service and...
- 9/14/2011
- by Pestilence
- DreadCentral.com
Poster for Beating Hearts featuring Gianna Bruzzese
Two new, striking posters for Matthew Garrett‘s award-winning horror short film Beating Hearts have been uploaded to Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s image gallery. Click each one to embiggen.
Both posters smartly focus on the film’s very convincing young star, Gianna Bruzzese.
Bad Lit reviewed the film a few months ago. The film took home the Boston Underground Film Festival’s Director’s Choice Award this year.
Poster for Beating Hearts featuring Gianna Bruzzese and Georgeanne BruzzeseRead More:2011 Boston Underground Film Festival: Award Winners2011 Boston Underground Film Festival: Official LineupBeating Hearts2009 Arizona Underground Film Festival: Official Lineup...
Two new, striking posters for Matthew Garrett‘s award-winning horror short film Beating Hearts have been uploaded to Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s image gallery. Click each one to embiggen.
Both posters smartly focus on the film’s very convincing young star, Gianna Bruzzese.
Bad Lit reviewed the film a few months ago. The film took home the Boston Underground Film Festival’s Director’s Choice Award this year.
Poster for Beating Hearts featuring Gianna Bruzzese and Georgeanne BruzzeseRead More:2011 Boston Underground Film Festival: Award Winners2011 Boston Underground Film Festival: Official LineupBeating Hearts2009 Arizona Underground Film Festival: Official Lineup...
- 6/14/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 13th annual Boston Underground Film Festival has handed out their Bacchus Awards and the big winner of the fest is filmmaker Usama Alshaibi, who took home the Best of Fest Feature for his film Profane. What makes this an even sweeter win is that the film’s Buff screening on March 26 was its North American Premiere.
If you want to catch Profane again, it has a repeat screening on March 29. You can actually catch many of the winners at repeat Buff screenings all this week until the 31st. The full festival schedule is on Bad Lit here.
Another big winner of the 13th Buff was Matthew Garrett‘s disturbing short film Beating Hearts, which was reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film just a few weeks ago. Also, Jason Eisener‘s much anticipated feature film Hobo With a Shotgun, starring Rutger Hauer took home the Audience Award.
If you want to catch Profane again, it has a repeat screening on March 29. You can actually catch many of the winners at repeat Buff screenings all this week until the 31st. The full festival schedule is on Bad Lit here.
Another big winner of the 13th Buff was Matthew Garrett‘s disturbing short film Beating Hearts, which was reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film just a few weeks ago. Also, Jason Eisener‘s much anticipated feature film Hobo With a Shotgun, starring Rutger Hauer took home the Audience Award.
- 3/28/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
It’s lucky 13 for the Boston Underground Film Festival as they celebrate their raucous 13th annual edition this year. Opening with the much buzzed about bloody feature film Hobo With a Shotgun starring Rutger Hauer and directed by Jason Eisener, the fest then barrels on for eight wild nights and days from March 24-31.
While there’s plenty of underground goodness from the U.S.A., this year Buff feels like it’s a much more international affair with several sick features from around the globe. There’s gory horror and quirky black comedy from Japan in the guise of Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Helldriver and Sion Sono’s Cold Fish; the Argentinian freak-out Phase7 by Nicolas Goldbart; David Blyth’s Wound is a psychological thriller from New Zealand; and Mark Hartley’s Machete Maidens Unleashed! is a look at Philippine exploitation cinema from the ’70s.
Stateside there’s Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane,...
While there’s plenty of underground goodness from the U.S.A., this year Buff feels like it’s a much more international affair with several sick features from around the globe. There’s gory horror and quirky black comedy from Japan in the guise of Yoshihiro Nishimura’s Helldriver and Sion Sono’s Cold Fish; the Argentinian freak-out Phase7 by Nicolas Goldbart; David Blyth’s Wound is a psychological thriller from New Zealand; and Mark Hartley’s Machete Maidens Unleashed! is a look at Philippine exploitation cinema from the ’70s.
Stateside there’s Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane,...
- 3/10/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Beating Hearts, a short film written and directed by Matthew Garrett, is like a horror movie in reverse. Instead of first establishing mood and tone and then getting to the gore, Garrett opens his film up with an act of horrific violence and then spends the rest of the 11-minute running time wallowing in the melancholic aftermath.
This is an absolutely terrifying movie, but not because killers are jumping out of shadows nor are there music stingers designed to make you jump. Even the violence is minimal. No, Beating Hearts is terrifying because in a very cold, matter-of-fact and low-key manner it puts a great evil on display and provides no answers for us to understand or cope with it.
Pure evil usually is incomprehensible. Yes, we can always figure out the logistics and the circumstances of a completely monstrous act, but the “why” of it all will remain outside of normal human understanding.
This is an absolutely terrifying movie, but not because killers are jumping out of shadows nor are there music stingers designed to make you jump. Even the violence is minimal. No, Beating Hearts is terrifying because in a very cold, matter-of-fact and low-key manner it puts a great evil on display and provides no answers for us to understand or cope with it.
Pure evil usually is incomprehensible. Yes, we can always figure out the logistics and the circumstances of a completely monstrous act, but the “why” of it all will remain outside of normal human understanding.
- 1/28/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
So, the Smithsonian kicked out a video piece by late artist David Wojnarowicz called A Fire in My Belly out of an exhibit because some alleged “Christians” complained about images of Jesus in it. (Wojnarowicz was part of the Cinema of Transgression movement.) The Huffington Post has a good rundown on the controversy and who’s been showing the video in protest of the protest. This week I was introduced to the website of filmmaker/author Shade Rupe, who helped me out with my Chicago Underground Film Festival post the other day. He’s written about a ton of interesting stuff, some of which you can read online or purchase. Speaking of the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Columbia Chronicle has an excellent and thorough piece on the fest, including lots of choice quotes from fest director Bryan Wendorf and others. A couple months ago I posted up Andrea Grover...
- 12/12/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Nychff PosterThe New York City Horror Film Festival has announced four days of films! The film festival begins November 11th at the Tribeca Cinemas and included in the 2010 lineup are the following features: the kidnap thriller Bereavement, the mysterious Yellow Brick Road, the rock and roll musical Don't Go in the Woods, the French Film The Pack, the Pagan influenced Outcast, the gender bending Ticked Off Trannies with Knives, and two others. The horror short line-up is diverse, with over thirty four showings. The highlights of this second category include the Stephen King adaption "Flowers for Norma" "Monsters Down the Hall" which has been reviewed (here) and "Remote," which has also been reviewed (here). Have a full look at the schedule, in its entirety, below.
Day 1 (November 11th):
The synopsis for Bereavement:
"In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter,...
Day 1 (November 11th):
The synopsis for Bereavement:
"In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter,...
- 10/28/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Montreal’s Fantasia film festival is always a great place to discover standout genre features making their world or North American premieres, and it’s also a haven for notable debuting short films as well. At last month’s 14th annual edition, Simon Rumley’s acclaimed Red White & Blue was preceded by the world premiere of the equally unsettling 11-minute Beating Hearts, the latest work by New Jersey-based writer/director Matthew Garrett, which is now set for its first U.S. screening.
- 8/27/2010
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
As we wrap up the second full week of Fantasia, I can’t help but marvel at how much more than a simple film festival it has become.
In addition to the theatrical performance Nevermore, this past week included a Miskatonic Institute Lovecraft adaptation masterclass given by Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli, a rare screening of The Devils where Ken Russell was presented with a lifetime achievement award, and a two-part live slideshow presentation from Rick Trembles and the creators of the very cool lostmyths.net. Fantasia is evolving into a three-week long series of events, appearances and live performances that just happens to also contain the best genre film festival in North America!
While most people have already seen Russell’s The Devils, seeing it on the big screen with an audience was a reminder of just how subversive and extreme this 1971 historical horror flick really is. Due to...
In addition to the theatrical performance Nevermore, this past week included a Miskatonic Institute Lovecraft adaptation masterclass given by Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli, a rare screening of The Devils where Ken Russell was presented with a lifetime achievement award, and a two-part live slideshow presentation from Rick Trembles and the creators of the very cool lostmyths.net. Fantasia is evolving into a three-week long series of events, appearances and live performances that just happens to also contain the best genre film festival in North America!
While most people have already seen Russell’s The Devils, seeing it on the big screen with an audience was a reminder of just how subversive and extreme this 1971 historical horror flick really is. Due to...
- 7/23/2010
- by EvilAndy
- DreadCentral.com
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