FrightFest 2012: ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ review
★★★★☆ From the creative mind of Peter Strickland, the director behind 2009’s hugely promising Katlin Varga, comes the long-awaited Berberian Sound Studio (2012). Starring...
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30 August 2021
FrightFest 2021: Evie review
★★☆☆☆ Emmerdale actor Dominic Brunt moonlights as a horror filmmaker. Evie, his fourth time on bullhorn duties, co-directed with Jamie Lundy, is based on the...
29 August 2021
FrightFest 2021: Knocking review
★★★★☆ A middle-aged woman, released from a psychiatric facility, moves into a block of flats. Settling in and finding her feet again, one night...
29 August 2021
FrightFest 2021: No Man of God review
★★★★☆ Amber Sealey’s chamber piece dramatises a series of 1980s prison interviews undertaken by pioneer FBI profiler, Bill Hagmaier, with Ted Bundy. The resulting film shines...
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FrightFest 2011: ‘Tucker & Dale vs Evil’ review
★★★★☆ Comedy and Horror work incredibly well together; scary moments can be funny and vice versa. The problem is that there have been a...
Interview: Eli Craig on ‘Tucker & Dale vs Evil’
Eli Craig will not be a name familiar to many of you reading this – yet. His first feature, Film4 FrightFest favourite Tucker &...
FrightFest 2011: ‘The Dead’ review
★★☆☆☆ Howard J. Ford’s The Dead (2010) – starring Rob Freeman and Prince David Oseia – takes the zombie film to the vast and...
FrightFest 2011: ‘Kill List’ review
★★★★★ With Kill List (2011), Ben Wheatley (director of the critically acclaimed Down Terrace [2009]) has created this year’s most horrendously violent and bizarrely...
FrightFest 2011: ‘Fright Night’ review
★★★☆☆ Craig Gillespie’s Fright Night (2011) follows the recent Hollywood fascination for re-imaginings with this remake of Tom Holland’s original 1985 cult favourite. Starring...
FrightFest 2011: ‘Panic Button’ review
★★★☆☆ UK director Chris Crow follows up his debut feature Devil’s Bridge (2010) with Panic Button (2011), which screened at this year’s Film4 FrightFest....
FrightFest 2011: ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ review
★★★☆☆ Apparently, Guillermo del Toro has been itching to make this one for years. In his youth, John Newland’s 1973 haunted house tale became...
