Video Sketches on YouTube!
I’ve been making short video sketches for a while now and I’ve just started adding them to my YouTube page. Check ’em out!
10/26: Hoff’s Horrorfest Presents The Return of the Living Dead LIVE at Littlefield!
This Halloween season, your favorite comedy show and horror movie screening series Hoff’s Horrorfest presents The Return of the Living Dead LIVE at littlefield! In the grand tradition of Elvira and Dr. Shock, me and my co-producers Andrei Alupului (Come Ova, UCB), George Gordon (Laugh Track Festival, Your Good Friend) and Mary Bess Pritchett (Generous Laughs, An Inconvenient Talk Show) bring you a full screening of the 1985 zombie horror classic complete with skits, bits, special guests, and audience participation games on Tuesday October 26th at 8:00 PM EST. Join in, sit back, and laugh until you scream! Tickets available now: https://littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_eb_id=165029486637
Subscribe to our YouTube channel, follow us on all your favorite social media platforms, and learn more about upcoming screenings and events via our website, http://www.hoffshorrorfest.com.
Hoff’s Horrorfest Returns in October
Tune in each week for original comedy segments, games, and special guests–real ones this time, not just made-up sketch characters–including The New Flesh podcast host Brett Arnold, award-winning filmmaker and horror extraordinaire Sydney Clara Brafman, award-winning comedian, actor and Prince of Public Broadcast Brett Davis, and more! Subscribe to our brand new YouTube channel, Hoff’s Horrorfest, and learn more about upcoming screenings and events via our website, www.hoffshorrorfest.com.
Hoff’s Horrorfest Is Online Now
https://www.twitch.tv/hoffmatthews
Our live comedy show/horror movie screening series Hoff’s Horrorfest is finally going online–and hopefully not getting flagged for copyright violations in the process! Wednesdays at 9pm EST, starting with House on Haunted Hill on May 27th, I’ll be on Twitch hosting livestreams of classic public domain horror movies interspersed with comedy host segments produced by me and Andrei Alupului (Come Ova, UCB). Tune in and laugh until you scream!
Upcoming movies:
6/24, 9pm EST: The Terror (1963)
7/1, 9pm EST: The Devil Bat (1940)
7/8, 9pm EST: Carnival of Souls (1962)
See you at https://www.twitch.tv/hoffmatthews!
Come to SAVAGE at Black Forest!
This show is currently on hold due to COVID-19.
The weekly stand-up show I co-produce is now at Black Forest in Brooklyn–the one at 181 Smith St., not the one on Fulton St.! Still Mondays at 8pm!
Come to SAVAGE!
I co-produce a weekly comedy show called SAVAGE at the bar Fawkner (191 Smith St., Brooklyn) on Mondays at 8pm! It features stand-up from me, my fellow producers and hilarious guest comics! Plus we give away drink tickets and stuff, and the venue feels like some mysterious haunted lodge! Come through and check it out!
The 12 Silent Nights of Horror Movie Christmas, Ranked
The Christmas season is all about tradition. This holds true even in the depraved world of horror cinema, where one tradition is respected above all others: If you are making a Christmas-themed horror movie, the title must be a play on the classic Christmas carol “Silent Night, Holy Night.” I don’t know why this is. There are plenty of well-known Christmas carols out there, and yet while there are no movies titled We Wish You a Scary Christmas, Deck the Hells or Bad King Wenceslas, there are twelve* feature films basically named Silent Night, [Scary Adjective] Night. Because I like horror movies and Christmas and committing to impractical ideas, I have watched and ranked all of them. Here they are, from worst to best.
*I’ve omitted two potentially eligible movies: 2006’s Silent Bloodnight, which as far as I can tell has nothing to do with Christmas, and 2011’s Violent Night: The Movie, which doesn’t appear to be publicly available for viewing. Read more…
I made a web series
Me and my friends made a web series called #Throwback. It’s about a social media marketing company that makes Twitter and Facebook pages and such for brands, and each episode takes place (and was filmed) one year prior to its release. So it’s like Mad Men with a really short attention span. You can binge-watch the whole thing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh-RRQGZeyU&list=PLU4VRZZkmNCeAiUxguD_ivhZz3GVuP6bS. Enjoy!
Hoff’s Horrorfest Presents: FROM BEYOND!
Hoff’s Horrorfest is a monthly show featuring live comedy from host Hoff Matthews and a guest performer, followed by a horror movie screening. This month’s installment will be at Videology (308 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn) at 9pm, Monday, February 15th. Tickets are $5 at the door, or you can buy online here.
This month’s guest performer: Sketch comedy duo Teenager of the Year
This month’s movie: From Beyond (1986)
After my screening of Dagon back in August, someone asked me if I’d seen From Beyond, another H. P. Lovecraft adaptation from Stuart Gordon, director of both Dagon and Re-Animator. At the time I had to admit I hadn’t, but I’ve rectified that failing, and I was happy to find that From Beyond provides even more effects-laden, over-the-top insanity. Read more…
Hoff’s Horrorfest is a monthly show featuring stand-up comedy from host Hoff Matthews and a guest performer, followed by a horror movie screening. This month’s installment will be at Videology (308 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn) at 7pm, Saturday, January 16th. It’s free!
This month’s guest performer: Evan Williams (Carolines Breakout Artist Series)
This month’s movie: Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
The recent news that M. Night Shyamalan will be bringing Tales From the Crypt back to television has me feeling a bit nostalgic–not for the old HBO show, which I haven’t actually seen much of, but for the original ’50s comic books, which my dad introduced me to via reprints when I was a kid. I never got much into superheroes, but I wasted plenty of my precious youth soaking up EC Comics‘ blend of O. Henry-style plot twists, Eisenhower-era cynicism and graphic gore. Read more…
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