Illinois native Shea VanLaningham tried to crack the indie horror market with DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE some 10 years ago. We thought it had been long buried. We were dead wrong.
Posted in Alums Done Good, Ones That Got Away?, Preservation, Streaming Cinema | 
Comments Off on Lost IL indie flays DEAD BODIES
Trick or treat! Five indie horror flicks originating in or adjacent to the meat-and-potatoes midsection of Illinois make the cut in our new marathon report. Come along for the haywire hayride, hardy souls!
Posted in Area Festivals, Article du C-U, Champaign Movie Makers, Media Coverage, Production Updates, Public Events, Streaming Cinema | Comments Off on Wave of terror SLAYS the state
A new crop of American horror stories from the Prairie State are coming soon to C-U Blogfidential, and here we preview two: C.O.R.N: A FIELD OF SCREAMS and UNLISTED OWNER. Aw, shuck!
Posted in Business Matters, Production Updates, Streaming Cinema | Comments Off on Rural fiends take root on Amazon
Lost in the woods for several years, the ‘Q&A du C-U’ department returns all possessed and shizz! Today, we talk CHASE AND SHEP’S SUMMER CAMP OF HORRORS! with co-creator Chase Todd of Savoy.
Posted in Broadcast Dates, Personalities du C-U, Podcast du C-U, Production Updates, Q&A du C-U, Streaming Cinema | Comments Off on CAMP site of Chase & Shep jollity!
Burning Bulb Publishing has released Champaign filmmaker Jeff Kacmarynski’s long-unseen first feature, DISSOLUTION. We speak with the writer/director about it and upcoming projects.
Posted in Article du C-U, Bittersweet Places, Cinema Discourse, Home Videos du C-U, Personalities du C-U, Preservation, Streaming Cinema, The Old School | Comments Off on Early Kacmarynski creeps onto BD
We veer off the normal story beats in central Illinois to visit with Nick Alonzo and company up in Chicago, whose new flick DA BIG ZIP plays virtually this afternoon at 3 p.m. Take in an ultra indie today! Tickets cheap!
Posted in Broadcast Dates, Chicago Stories, Flick Picks du C-U, Happy Places, Public Events, Streaming Cinema | Comments Off on Grab snacks and dig DA BIG ZIP
We delved into the Tubi platform and retrieved intel on movies from both the history of Ebertfest and the fabric of our very being in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Links aplenty now await you!
Posted in Area Festivals, Documentary, Gone Hollywood, Roger Ebert, Streaming Cinema | Comments Off on TubiTV incorporates C-U movies