FrightFest 2014: ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ review
★★★★☆ Familiarity, they say, breeds contempt, as has clearly become the case with the Nightmare on Elm Street cycle. There have been nine entries...
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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 2014: ‘The Mirror’ review
★★☆☆☆ It’s films like The Mirror (2014) which make one despair about the current state of films in general, and more specifically those which...
FrightFest 2014: ‘Extraterrestrial’ review
★★☆☆☆ Four years after making a respectable impact with his debut Timecrimes (2007), Nacho Vigalondo returns with Extraterrestrial (2011), a low-budget Spanish science fiction...
FrightFest 2014: ‘Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead’ review
★★★★☆ What two more distasteful subjects could there be than Nazis and zombies – neither of which could usually be mistaken as the basis...
FrightFest 2014: ‘All Cheerleaders Die’ review
★★★☆☆ Devoted horror fans Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson combine for knowing FrightFest 2014 offering All Cheerleaders Die (2013), a jocular genre piece that...
FrightFest 2013: ‘Yellow’ review
★★★★☆ Pulled into this year’s Film4 FrightFest shorts programme at the last minute after impressing the powers that be, Yellow (2012) is a strange,...
FrightFest 2013: ‘Daylight’ review
★★★☆☆ Not to be confused with the 1996 Stallone film, Daylight (2013) is something of a team effort, boasting a trio of directors –...
FrightFest 2013: ‘In Fear’ review
★★★☆☆ A low-concept, micro-budget British horror may not be the most enticing of premises, but thanks to two standout performances from rising stars Alice...
