26th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Driven’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Casey Dillard, Richard Speight Jr., Jessica Harthcock, Glenn Payne, Bill Luckett, Leah Hudspeth, Andy Field, Jennifer Hamilton Collins, Mari Kenney, Jamie Fair | Written by Casey Dillard | Directed by Glenn Payne Emerson Graham’s nights as a cab driver are filled with annoyances and inconveniences, but until tonight, never attacks and disappearances. After picking […]

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26th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘For We Are Many’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: Laurence R. Harvey,  Tom Zembrod, Nicholas Vince, Eileen Dietz | Directed by Lawrie Brewster, Andrew Ionides, Brad Watson, Mitch Wilson, Carlos Omar De Leon, Matthan Harris, Dane Keil, Mark Logan and others. For We Are Many is a film from the Scottish-based Hex Studios, a smorgasbord of demonic horror from thirteen different genre directors […]

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26th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Deadcon’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Claudia Sulewski, Lauren Elizabeth, Lukas Gage, Dominic Burgess, Emma Barrett, Kherrington Briggs, Mai Brunelle, Carl Gilliard, Richard Kohnke, Catherine Shu, Jordyn Yarker | Written by Scotty Landes | Directed by Caryn Waechter The internet has, since its inception and rapid growth, been used somewhat as a tool for telling horror stories, so much so […]

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26th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘The Legend of the Stardust Brothers’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: Shingo Kubota, Kan Takagi, Kyoko Togawa, Kiyohiko Ozaki | Written and Directed by Macoto Tezuka The Legend of the Stardust Brothers was made all the way back in 1985. I was only two years old; Back to the Future, The Goonies, Weird Science and The Breakfast Club (among many others, because it’s a hell […]

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26th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘The Sonata’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner, Rutger Hauer, Catherine Schaub-Abkarian, Matt Barber, Christopher Brand, James Kermack, Myster Jo, Laine Ligere Stengrévica | Written by Andrew Desmond, Arthur Morin | Directed by Andrew Desmond While horror movies and classical music aren’t complete strangers, it’s not like they know each other very well. Films like The […]

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26th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Bloodline’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Seann William Scott, Mariela Garriga, Dale Dickey, Kevin Carroll, Christie Herring, Raymond Alexander Cham Jr., Leith M. Burke, Nick Boraine, Dusty Sorg, Sean H. Scully, Larsen Thompson | Written by Henry Jacobson, Avra Fox-Lerner, Will Honley | Directed by Henry Jacobson Sean William Scott as a serial killer. As soon as I read that […]

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26th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Why Don’t You Just Die!’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Vitaliy Khaev, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Mikhail Gorevoy, Elena Shevchenko, Igor Grabuzov, Aleksandr Domogarov, Ilya Gavrilenkov, Vasiliy Kopeikin | Written and Directed by Kirill Sokolov Do you remember The Raid? If you’ve seen it you probably won’t ever forget it. Now imagine taking the brutality and physical violence of that film and transpose it […]

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26th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Rabid (1977)’ Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, Patricia Gage, Susan Roman, Roger Periard, Lynne Deragon, Terry Schonblum, Victor Désy, Julie Anna, Gary McKeehan | Written and Directed by David Cronenberg Rabid has always been one of my favourite David Cronenberg movies, there is just something about the strange little film that makes it […]

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25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Features: Gavin Baddeley, Tom Baker, Ingrid Cranfield, Kat Ellinger, Steve Haberman, Benjamin Halligan, David Huckvale, Ian Ogilvy | Written by Kat Ellinger | Directed by Dima Ballin The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves is a documentary film directed by Dima Ballin (A Taste of New Blood: New Directions for Hammer’s Dracula) and written by Kat […]

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25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Witches in the Woods’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Hannah Kasulka, Alexander De Jordy, Sasha Clements, Corbin Bleu, Humberly González, Craig Arnold, Kyle Mac, Sasha Clements, Ian Matthews, James Gilbert, David Lafontaine | Written by Christopher Borrelli | Directed by Jordan Barker I absolutely love films, in particular, horror films that have scenes that involve a lot of snow. Or, even better, if […]

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25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Depraved’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: David Call, Alex Breaux, Joshua Leonard, Ana Kayne, Maria Dizzia, Chloë Levine, Owen Campbell, Addison Timlin, Chris O’Connor, Alice Barrett, Jack Fessenden, James Tam, Zilong Zee, Noah Le Gros | Written and Directed by Larry Fessenden Larry Fessenden (Wendigo) goes back to his monster drawing-board to tell a modern-day Frankenstein story about a man named Henry, […]

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25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Happy Face’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: E.R. Ruiz, Cindy Nicholsen, David Roche, Dawn Shaw, Robin L’Houmeau, Debbie Lynch-White, Dean Perseo, Noémie Kocher | Written by Joelle Bourjolly, Alexandre Franchi | Directed by Alexandre Franchi Happy Face is a very different kind of film. Beginning as a personal concept and going on to an Indiegogo campaign, using crowdfunding as a way […]

25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Dark Sense’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: James Robinson, Maggie Bain, Jim Sturgeon, Siobhan Redmond, Gordon Kennedy, Corin Edgar Robert | Written by Geoff Dupuy-Holder, Alistair Rutherford | Directed by Magnus Wake The feature debut of Scottish director Magnus Wake, Dark Sense is adapted from the First and Only, the best-selling novel by Peter Flannery. Unfortunately, whatever virtues the novel possessed […]

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25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Halloween Party’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Amy Groening, T. Thomason, Shelley Thompson, Bradley Bailey, Scott Bailey, Jason Daley, Zach Faye, Lisa Hackett, Marletta Laan, Jason Morley, Taylor Olson, Geneviève Steele, Shelley Thompson | Written and Directed by Jay Dahl Jay Dahl, writer and director of There Are Monsters, is back after a five-year break from the genre with his latest […]

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25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Are We Dead Yet?’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: Jessica Jane Stafford, Paul Danan, Hakan Hussan, Aurie Styla, Bradley Turner | Written and Directed by Fredi Nwaka Fredi ‘Kruga’ Nwaka writes and directs his feature debut, Are We Dead Yet?, a British movie about a robbery that goes very wrong, resulting in five criminals taking shelter from the police in a castle. This […]

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25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘I Trapped the Devil’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Scott Poythress, Chris Sullivan, Jocelin Donahue, AJ Bowen, Susan Burke | Written and Directed by Josh Lobo I have mentioned many many times that I absolutely love Christmas movies. And I mean any type of movie that has that great Christmas feeling – romantic comedy? Aslong as it’s set at Christmas, I’ll probably like […]

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25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Volition’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Adrian Glynn McMorran, Magda Apanowicz, John Cassini, Aleks Paunovic, Frank Cassini, Bill Marchant | Written by Tony Dean Smith, Ryan W. Smith | Directed by Tony Dean Smith Less all-out horror and more a sci-fi thriller, Volition still fits nicely alongside the rest of this year’s varied Frightfest line-up… James sees his mother die […]

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25th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Madness in the Method’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Teri Hatcher, Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo, Gina Carano, Jaime Camil, Mickey Gooch Jr., Stan Lee, Brian O’Halloran, Esther Anderson, Blake Harrison, Matt Willis | Written by Dominic Burns, Chris Anastasi | Directed by Jason Mewes Playing an alternative version of his persona, and tired of Hollywood’s perception of him, Mewes […]

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24th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Bullets of Justice’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Timur Turisbekov, Danny Trejo, Doroteya Toleva, Yana Marinova | Written by Valeri Milev, Timur Turisbekov | Directed by Valeri Milev During World War III, the American government initiates a secret project codenamed ‘Army Bacon’ in order to create super soldiers by inbreeding humans with pigs. 25 years later the hybrid Muzzles have occupied the […]

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24th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Feedback’ Review

by Chris Cummings

Stars: Eddie Marsan, Paul Anderson, Ivana Baquero, Richard Brake, Oliver Coopersmith, Alexis Rodney, Anthony Head, Alana Boden, Nacho Aldeguer | Written by Pedro C. Alonso, Alberto Marini | Directed by Pedro C. Alonso The feature film debut from writer and director Pedro C. Alonso, Feedback stars the excellent Eddie Marsan as Jarvis Dolan, a radio […]

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24th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘The Dark Red’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: April Billingsley, Kelsey Scott, Conal Byrne, Bernard Setaro Clark, Rhoda Griffis, John Curran, Jill Jane Clements | Written by Dan Bush, Conal Byrne | Directed by Dan Bush Writer/director Dan Bush and writer Conal Byrne team for the third time, following The Reconstruction of William Zero (2014) and The Vault (2017) with The Dark […]

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24th Aug2019

Frightfest 2019: ‘Criminal Audition’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Noeleen Comiskey, Rich Keeble, Angela Peters, Rebecca Calienda, Blain Neale, Cameron Harris, Scott Samain, Luke Kaile, Jonathan Burteaux, Ben Scheck | Written by Samuel Gridley, Luke Kaile | Directed by Samuel Gridley An ex-lawyer and his crack team run an underworld service; they seek the most desperate and greedy to become fake criminals to […]

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