FrightFest 2021: Offseason
After receiving a letter informing her that her mother’s grave has been desecrated, Marie (Jocelin Donahue) heads to the island where she is buried. With the bridge back to the […]
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FrightFest 2021: The Advent Calendar
When paraplegic ex-dancer Eva (Eugénie Derouand) is given an antique German advent calendar, she discovers that behind each door lurks disaster, desire fulfilment and death. And chocolate, obviously. Originally just […]
FrightFest 2021: Prisoners of the Ghostland
My coverage of this year’s FrightFest is split between here and DMovies as I am a critical whore. Except not being paid. So I guess just a slut. FrightFest is […]
FrightFest 20: A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
It’s grim up north(ern Ireland) in Abner Pastoll’s thriller about young widowed mother Sarah (Sarah Bolger) whose home is invaded by a drug dealer (Andrew Simpson). This Belgian-Northern Irish co-production […]
FrightFest 20: Tales From the Lodge
A group of friends gather in the English countryside to scatter their friend’s ashes in horror anthology Tales From the Lodge. Writer/director Abigail Blackmore won this year’s Screen International Genre […]
FrightFest 20: The Black String
Malcolm in the Middle has a diddle and ends up riddled in this new chiller soon available at Lidl. Probably. After an advert for a dating service appears to address […]
FrightFest 20: Rabid (2019)
Today we go from rabbits to Rabid with the Soska Sisters’ remake of David Cronenberg’s classic armpit horror. “Why do we keep remaking old trends?” asks the self-referential opening line, […]
FrightFest 20: Satanic Panic
Welcome to the first of 5 reviews from FrightFest 2019, a wonderful horror festival and unofficial singles convention. Described by its director Chelsea Stardust as a “punk rock satanic Wizard […]
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