Night of the Living Dead Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/night-of-the-living-dead/ What to Watch Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:35:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Night of the Living Dead Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/night-of-the-living-dead/ 32 32 A Conversation with Maya Annik Bedward (BLACK ZOMBIE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/maya-annik-bedward/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:44:19 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=55348

The documentary Black Zombie marks director Maya Annik Bedward’s feature debut. In the film, Bedward examines how the cinematic zombie has its roots in the Haitian Vodou faith, even though the original term refers to a live person enslaved by a sorcerer, and […]

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]]> BLACK ZOMBIE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/black-zombie/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:11:38 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=55299

(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Black Zombie movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In her feature debut, Black Zombie, director Maya Annik […]

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]]> PERSONAL PROBLEMS (SPLIT SCREEN VERSION) https://www.hammertonail.com/latest-reviews/personal-problems/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:21:14 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35362

(Friday, August 27, Metrograph began presenting Personal Problems: Split-Screen Version, a new restoration deconstructing Bill Gunn’s groundbreaking 1980 film. You can watch it here now. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via […]

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]]> A Conversation with Alexandre O. Philippe (MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/alexandre-philippe/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:16:55 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31069

I met with director Alexandre O. Philippe at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, January 26, 2019, to discuss his documentary Memory: The Origins of Alien (which I also reviewed). The film dives into the rich history of the making […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.2) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/digital-gods-2-6-3-2/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:03:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30100 (The following is the second half of Nick Toti’s interview with Megan Boyle and Tao Lin of MDMAfilms. Part one can be found here.) Hammer to Nail: A lot of reviews of your movies that I’ve read compare the MDMAfilms project […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.1) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/digital-gods-2-6-3/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:35:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30094 This interview is the third and final installment of my series on MDMAfilms. To be as frank as possible, I’m not terribly happy with how this interview turned out, but I think it’s worth publishing regardless. Both Megan Boyle and […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Five (Part 2) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/experimental/digital-gods-2-5-2/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:19:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30034 In the last Digital Gods installment, we examined the cultural context surrounding MDMAfilms, the production company created by authors Megan Boyle and Tao Lin. This article will now look at the actual movies that MDMAfilms produced. Particularly, this piece will […]

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]]> WEATHER HOUSE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/weather-house-review/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 04:10:42 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27517

And so it goes, everything discussed yet nothing explained...

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]]> SXSW ‘09: Tuesday/Wednesday Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sxsw-09-tuesdaywednesday-wrap-up/ Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:05:37 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1800 My final two days of viewing at SXSW brought more interesting treats. Of course, there is so very much that I didn’t get to see (Winnegebo Man, Sorry, Thanks, etc.), but that just gives me more of a reason to […]

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]]> GANJA & HESS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/ganja-and-hess-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/ganja-and-hess-film-review/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:15:05 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2124

(Ganja & Hess is now available on DVD and Blu-ray in a special remastered edition thanks to Kino International.) How do you make a Christian vampire movie? Perhaps more specifically, how does one make a film that accepts the idea […]

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