It Chapter Two
The It crowd is back (the coulrophobic rather than transphobic one) to battle an evil clown in It Chapter Two, or The Continued Decline of James McAvoy. 27 years after […]
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Don’t Look Now
First released in 1973 to give an entire generation a phobia of red raincoats, Don’t Look Now is restored in all its squirmy, permy glory. Based on Daphne du Maurier’s short […]
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 […]
From Beyond
The team behind 1985’s Re-Animator reassemble themselves a year later for another slimy helping of H. P. Lovecraft. Jeffrey Combs plays another mad scientist, this time trying to expand perception […]
Quiz Call: Population 436
Here’s another ‘film with numbers in the title‘ that you’d likely only guess by shouting random numbers down the phone. Population 436 is a classic Quiz Call answer in that […]
Quiz Call: 976-EVIL
Category is: ‘Films with numbers in the title’ – ironic that a Quiz Call answer would be a film about a cursed phone line. Freddy Krueger himself (Robert Englund) directs […]
