Category: FrightFest

★★★☆☆ You know the slasher-movie drill. Two high-school students are parked on a country lane at night. The windows haveContinue Reading

★★☆☆☆ Kevin Greutert’s latest thriller sees a family up against a deranged cult. Set over the course of a fewContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Dominic Brunt’s third directorial feature is a political satire intent on causing a stink. A tale of human greedContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Kept under wraps for two years as a top-secret production, Adam Green’s Hatchet series redux Victor Crowley is aContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Joe Lynch’s grisly corporate satire Mayhem follows a young lawyer’s mission to confront the company CEO that screwed himContinue Reading

★★★★☆ It would be unfair to dismiss Imitation Girl as an Under the Skin knockoff. Both are art films featuring an alienContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Misogynistic exploitation cinema or a study of misogyny? Premiering at this year’s Horror Channel-sponsored FrightFest, director Trent Haaga’s 68Continue Reading

★★★☆☆ As the adage goes “Don’t fuck with the Chuck”, and the rule still applies. The maniacal doll is upContinue Reading

FrightFest is a genre fan’s Christmas – a Black Christmas, naturally. 2017 marks its 18th edition and the UK’s premierContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Like an episode of The Twilight Zone guest-directed by Luis Buñuel, The Similars is richly absurd in premise butContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ On the colour wheel, Craig Anderson’s Red Christmas is more Bob Clark’s Black Christmas than Michael Curtiz’s White Christmas.Continue Reading