FrightFest 2020: Av: The Hunt review
★★★★☆ Emre Akay’s powerful social thriller pits a woman against not only her immediate family, but an entire country’s cultural attitudes, its conservative values, and […]
FrightFest 2020: Don’t Click review
★★★★☆ In Kim G-hey’s debut, two college students who access an extreme BDSM/snuff site are tormented by the spirit of a dead woman, an avenging […]
FrightFest 2020: The Swerve review
★★★★☆ In Dean Kapsalis’ impressive psychological drama The Swerve a suburbanite loses her grip on reality, the catalyst for the descent into madness is a bite […]
FrightFest 2020: Dark Place review
★★★☆☆ Anthologies are typically a mixed bag, and so it goes with this Australian collection of horror yarns directed and mostly starring indigenous filmmakers and […]
FrightFest 2020: Aquaslash review
★★☆☆☆ Slashers have used all manner of holiday celebrations and location gimmicks in their bid to deliver greater chills and spills. Aquaslash, which unfortunately isn’t […]
FrightFest 2020: A Ghost Waits review
★★★★☆ In Adam Stovall’s necromantic horror film, a lonely blue-collar worker at the end of his tether meets and falls in love with a ghost […]
FrightFest 2020: Hall review
★★★★☆ Francesco Giannini’s chiller pits a mum and her young child in a fight for their lives after an airborne virus turns their hotel into […]
FrightFest 2020: The Clapboard Jungle review
★★★☆☆ Justin McConnell’s The Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business is an eye-opening and informative documentary all about the rough road countless artists travel on to […]
FrightFest 2020: Skull: The Mask review
★★☆☆☆ An inventive setup unfortunately cannot save Skull: The Mask from its poor attributions. Confusing editing, disjointed storytelling, too many subplots which appear to be from completely […]
FrightFest 2020: 12 Hour Shift review
★★★★☆ In Brea Grant’s ghoulish US healthcare farce, 12 Hour Shift, a junkie nurse and her accomplices run a body parts scam for the local mob, […]
FrightFest 2020: The Columnist review
★★★★☆ In Ivo van Aart’s timely psycho-thriller, The Columnist, a female cultural commentator subjected to an endless stream of misogynistic vitriol by online trolls decides to […]
FrightFest 2020: There’s No Such Thing as Vampires review
★★☆☆☆ Brought together at random by a car crash in the middle of the night, twentysomething Ariel (Emma Holzer) is thrown headfirst into a nightmare […]
FrightFest 2020: Programme highlights
With Covid-19 still a global threat, festival organisers have been pushed to making crucial decisions: Cancel or opt for an online edition? While a few […]
FrightFest 2018: What Keeps You Alive review
★★★★☆ What Keeps You Alive is not just a edge-of-your-seat style thriller, but a searing portrait into relationships, and the horror of intimacy, or of […]
FrightFest 2018: Summer of 84 review
★★★☆☆ A joint directorial effort between François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell, Summer of 84 is a somewhat disappointing entry into the hallowed halls […]
FrightFest 2018: The Most Assassinated Woman in the World review
★★★☆☆ The heyday of the Parisian Grand Guignol is a perfect setting for a film screening at a horror festival: holding up a mirror to […]
FrightFest 2017: Tragedy Girls review
★★★☆☆ You know the slasher-movie drill. Two high-school students are parked on a country lane at night. The windows have steamed up. Busy necking, the […]
FrightFest 2017: Jackals review
★★☆☆☆ Kevin Greutert’s latest thriller sees a family up against a deranged cult. Set over the course of a few hours on a dark night, […]