While on her hen party getaway to exotic Costa Rica, bride-to-be Casey gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect while bathing in an idyllic jungle pool. But after returning home with matrimonial cold feet, she starts exhibiting alien behaviour as what crept under her skin starts taking hold. Between physical transformation and wedding […]
Stars: Mitchel Musso, Dean Geyer, Nikki Leigh, Brooke Butler, Meagan Holder, Jamie Kennedy, Hector David Jr., Cynthia Murell, Cleo Berry, Etalvia Cashin, Adam Powell | Written by Alex Greenfield, Ben Powell | Directed by Isaac Gabaeff After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wake up under blazing sun to find their […]
She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl after the credits roll? Nerdly writer and host of the Britflicks podcast, Stuart Wright spoke to Last Girl Standing‘s writer/director Benjamin R. Moody about his exploration into one of horror’s biggest tropes, the final girl… Last Girl Standing has its […]
Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD is a documentary covering the highs and lows of 2000AD’s history, from its inception after the demise of Action to the present day. Producer Sean Hogan talks to Nerdly writer and host of the Britflicks podcast, Stuart Wright, about why make a 2000AD documentary, the challenges and a very […]
35 years after it showed in British cinemas Hawk The Slayer, an absolute cult classic in 2015, is back on the big screen thanks to Frightfest. The screening will also act as a platform for co-writer/director Terry Marcel to launch a $1,000,000 Kickstarter campaign for the long awaited sequel ‘Hawk The Hunter” Nerdly writer Stuart […]
Stars: Ellen MacNevin, Sage Brocklebank, Johannah Newmarch, Steve Richmond, Connor Fielding | Written by Kevin Mosley | Directed by Jeffrey Scott Lando It would seem I have a love/hate relationship with the work of director Jeffrey Lando. On the one hand he has helmed fantastic direct to DVD movies such as Insecticidal (yes I really […]
Stars: Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Sarah Bolger, Evan Peters, Donald Glover, Ray Wise, Scott Sheldon, Emily Kelavos | Written by Luke Dawson, Jeremy Slater | Directed by David Gelb This fear-filled Flatliners, for that’s essentially what The Lazarus Effect is – a horror take on Joel Schumacher’s classic “scientists play god” movie – ups the […]
What do Barbara Crampton, Rick Wakeman, James Cosmo, Toyah Willcox, Neil Marshall and Bernard Rose have in common? They’re all set to make an appearance at this years London Film4 Frightfest! Scream Queen legend Barbara Crampton (pictured above) is Film4 FrightFest’s special guest icon, appearing in no less than four films in this year’s line-up. […]
Part slasher movie and part character study, Last Girl Standing – the feature debut of Benjamin R. Moody (whose work you may know from web series De-Pixelated) – is a penetrating and intimate look at what happens to the survivors of horror movies starring Akasha Villalobos (Undercover Alien, Now Hiring), Danielle Evon Ploeger (Summer League), […]
Directed and produced by Georgia native Levan Bakhia – who made his feature film directorial debut with the thriller 247F starring Scout Taylor-Compton – Landmine Goes Click is written by Adrian Colussi, known for his work on prime time Canadian shows The Jane Show and ‘da Kink In My Hair. Landmine Goes Click starring Sterling […]
After the announcement of the Fightfest’s opening and closing films a week ago, the UK’s premiere horror festival has announced its complete line-up… And they’re not making it easy for us to bring you reviews of the majority of the films screening this year! Yes, not only is Frightfest taking over the Vue cinema on […]
The 16th edition of Film4 FrightFest kicks off in skin-crawling fashion with the European premiere of David Keating’s blood-freezing rural nightmare Cherry Tree, starring Anna Walton (Hellboy 2, Soulmate) and rising star Naomi Battrick (Down Dog, Waterloo Road) Keating, who directed the acclaimed Wake Wood for the revamped Hammer label, offers another provocative and compelling […]
If you’ve been reading Nerdly for some time you know that the UK’s premiere horror festival, Frightfest, is a major event for not only the site but me personally. You see London’s Frightfest is, for a horror fan like myself, like Christmas in August! Seeing the mix of new movies, big budget and not-so-big budget, […]
