Rebecca Fonte is the founder of Other Worlds, creating it after two years as the Director of Programming for Austin Film Festival. Her science fiction shorts Roadside Assistance, Prenatal, and The Secret Keeper have played over 150 festivals, and her horror short Conversion Therapist made its world premiere at Inside…

Other Worlds Austin returns for its eighth year at the Galaxy Highland 10 in Austin, Texas. Beginning Thursday, December 2, 2021, the nation’s premiere science fiction film festival features more than 25 films and shorts as well as a screenwriting workshop and the Mary Shelley Award. In addition, 2021 includes…

Yeah, 2020 was a crap year, and if 2021 is even marginally better we will consider it a miracle. I don’t need to repeat the litany of events; most of us probably developed PTSD from our collective daily doom scrolling. May the entire year lay near the bottom of history’s…

Apparently Apple TV+ is adapting Isaac Asimov’s landmark Foundation Trilogy. I never considered myself an Asimov fan. I still don’t. I respected his fiction, but even the books I enjoyed (The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun) read as bloodless and uninvolving, like diagrams of stories rather than stories…

When I was twelve years old, my friends and I went to see a comedy called The Nude Bomb (which turned out to be an apt title; it was obvious to everyone in the full auditorium that the movie was a dud) at the Westwood Theater in Houston. For some…

My Favorite Horror Movies of the 2010s Because all of the cool kids in horror are doing it, and I just want to be popular, here are my picks for the best horror movies of the past 10 years. Let’s amend that. There were great movies made during this period…

Other World Austin and its horror counterpart Under Worlds Austin offered strong material during its 2019 festival, but the standout was a small Canadian horror film called Dead Dicks, which told the story of a mentally ill young man who discovers what appears to be his own dead body after…

It seems fitting that Other Worlds Austin, Texas’s premiere science fiction film festival that ran December 5–8, launched its sixth year with 1984’s Dreamscape, a B-feature classic that follows psychic Dennis Quaid as he joins an experiment to have sleepers enter each other’s unconscious. Fitting because it not only showcases…

Let’s face it: fear is fun,” writes Douglas E. Winter in his introduction to the landmark 1980s anthology Prime Evil. It may be why we turn to it as a source of entertainment, even if we seldom think critically about the hockey-masked villains or the hormone-addled teenagers who serve as…