The seventh annual Another Hole In the Head Film Festival is currently running in San Francisco from July 8th through the 29th. It’s a genre fest featuring domestic and international horror, sci-fi, and exploitation films, and it just may be the first and last chance to see some of these on the big-screen. There are thirty-two films at the fest this year, and we’re trying to see and cover as many as possible. (And by we I mean me…) Jimmy Tupper vs The Goatman Of Bowie – directed by Andrew Bowser, USA; upcoming screenings 7/23 11pm, 7/26 5pm Synopsis: It’s just another normal weekend in Bowie filled with partying, drinking, and Jimmy Tupper acting like an a-hole. His friends grow tired of his drunken antics one night after he passes out and decide to play a prank. They take him to the woods outside of town and leave him unconscious in the grass, but they’re surprised when he doesn’t show up to work the next day and head back to the woods to find him. Jimmy’s understandably angry when they find him, but he’s also frightened and slightly battered. It seems something attacked him in the middle of the night… something part man and part goat. No one believes him of course, so Jimmy camps out the next three nights with the camcorder in the hopes of catching the creature on film. But Jimmy Tupper’s nights don’t quite go according to plan… Check out our review after the jump…

Comic-Con is a fun event for film fans hoping to get their first peek at upcoming blockbusters and the stars behind them, but I’ve always been a lot more partial to film festivals. Why? Because film fests are all about actually watching films. (Yes, I know studios have recently started hosting screenings during Comic-Con but they still number in the single digits and they’re always future wide-release movies anyway.) Trailer previews and scenes are fun to watch at the Con, and while I won’t be attending this month I hope to get back again with the FSR crew next year. But a solid film festival trumps everything the Con has to offer by virtue of the number and variety of films available. The best fest, hands down, is Austin’s Fantastic Fest (which I’ll be eating, drinking, and breathing this September), but it’s not the only one worth watching…

The one beautiful thing about SXSW is the diversity. I’ve mentioned this before. But nowhere does this festival show off its diversity more than in its Midnighters line-up. This is one of those movies. One of those incredibly strange movies.