Stars: Ian Virgo, Sianad Gregory, David Hayman, Ross O’Hennessy, Sophie Carmen-Jones, Gerald Tyler, Christopher Patrick Nolan, Carli De’La Hughes, Tim Duthrane | Written by Philip Palmer | Directed by Chris Crow British gangster or small-town British revenge-style movies are a dime a dozen. There’s so many of them around, I assume because they are cheap […]
Written and Directed by Seth Breedlove I really enjoy listening, reading and watching about local folklore. There’s thousands upon thousands of stories to be told of creatures that lurk in the dark. They are more often than not, tales that have been told for hundred’s of years and their legend has only grown stronger but […]
Stars: Daniel Gillies, Matthias Luafatu, Miriama McDowell, Erik Thomson, Billy Paratene, Frankie Paratene, Alan Palmer | Written by James Ashcroft, Eli Kent | Directed by James Ashcroft From Black Sheep to Deathgasm to Housebound, New Zealand has a pretty good relationship with horror, even if it leans towards the comedy side sometimes (this is no […]
King Knight is the latest twisted yet brilliant movie from director Richard Bates Jr. I have been a big fan of his movies since his debut Excision almost ten years ago and thought there was no better time to remind people of his movies now that King Knight is doing the festival rounds. First up […]
Stars: Alexandra Slade, Nick Young, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott, Kevin Smith, Luke Anthony Pensabene, Neil Raymond Ricco | Written and Directed by Brian Patrick Butler Friend of the World isn’t an obvious title for a sci-fi thriller but this low budget affair is set in a world after a catastrophic global war in which […]
Stars: Monique Rockman, Alex Van Dyk, Carel Nel, Anthony Oseyemi | Written by Tertius Kapp | Directed by Jaco Bouwer Perhaps the best horror films come from tried and tested formulas but with an added twist. In Gaia we find a woman injured and lost in a forest. In horror , that’s nothing unusual but […]
Stars: Charlotte Olivia, Jathis Sivanesan, John Black, Stefan Chanyaem, Justin Hayward, Kyle Menzies | Written by Seb Cox, John Black | Directed by Seb Cox Are We Monsters is an intriguing title and one that drew me into the movie before I knew anything else about it…. The film sees werewolf hunters trying to find […]
Stars: Laura Montgomery Bennett, Lennon Leckey, Natasha Naomi Rea, Adrian Palmer | Written and Directed by Eric Ian Steele Tackling the vampire genre is a brave move in horror. Creating some mass appeal with something akin to Twilight probably means you’ll be making less of a horror movie. While making a horror-centric vampire film is […]
Stars: Aki Asakura, Kazunari Tosa, Riko Fujitani, Gota Ishida, Masashi Suwa, Yoshifumi Sakai | Written by Makoto Ueda | Directed by Junat Yamaguchi A couple of years ago at Frightfest, One Cut of the Dead blew everyone away with it’s originality, cleverness and charm, creating a whole new kind of zombie movie. Even though Beyond […]
Stars: Zita Bai, Boni Mata, Vas Provatakis, Helen Sun | Written by Zita Bai | Directed by Jesse Dvorak If a movie’s description has ‘coming-of-age’ written in it, I will nearly always be giving it a watch. And as you’ve probably guessed, that was exactly what I read about Baby, Don’t Cry. The Fantasia website […]
Stars: Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, Laura Kennon, Alan Silva, Vernon Wells | Written and Directed by Sean Nichols Lynch Over the Christmas period, vampire romance novelist Olivia, saves a bat from death after it flies into her house. This was no ordinary bat though and she soon finds herself trying to fend off real-life vampires… […]
Stars: Larry Fessenden, Marieh Delfino, Dennie Gordon, Damien Gerard, Sunny Roe | Directed by Alix Austin, Adam R. Brown, Larry Fessenden, Dennie Gordon, Andrew Kasch, Kyle I. Kelley, Alexandra Neary, Christian Pasquariello, Zach Passero, Bobby Roe, Keir Siewert It will come as no surprise to anyone that there is, and will be more coming, a […]
Stars: Carly Pope, Chris William Martin, Nathalie Boltt, Michael J. Rogers, Andrea Agur | Written and Directed by Neill Blomkamp When you give your horror movie the simple and uninspiring title of ‘Demonic’, you better be ready to do something big, something exciting! And if there’s any director that could do that with a horror […]
Stars: Kaori Fuji, Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe | Written and Directed by Shunji Iwai Even though I’d call myself a fan of Asian cinema, the reality is, if it isn’t horror or animated, I probably haven’t seen it. So I was thrilled to get the chance to watch 1998’s April Story at this year’s Fantasia […]
Stars: Tsubasa Nakagawa, Itsuki Nagasawa, Rina Ikoma, Taro Suruga, Toshiro Yanagiba | Written by Yoichi Narita, Yu Sakudo | Directed by Yoichi Narita Fantasia Festival has been helping me out this year with it’s range and variety of coming-of-age movies. Follow The Light adds some sci-fi to a terrifically written and original coming-of-age story. Follow […]
Stars: Denise Gough, Sienna Sayer, Kiera Thompson | Written and Directed by Ruth Platt Several years ago I took a gamble at Frightfest and booked a ticket for a movie in a small screen at maybe ten or eleven in the morning (the first film of the day). It was a low budget British horror […]
Stars: Evan Dumouchel, Libby Ewing, MacLeod Andrews | Written and Directed by Perry Blackshear I was lucky enough to watch and review director Perry Blackshear’s previous movies The Siren and They Look Like People. Both are really impressive movies. Bringing fresh and original ideas to sci-fi and horror I knew he was a director that […]
Prano Bailey-Bond’s début feature film Censor has received nothing but praise since its recent showings across genre movie festivals around the world and it’s theatre release in America. The movie tells the story of film censor, Enid, who views a strangely familiar video nasty. The film leads her to the mystery of her missing sister […]
Features: Luc Hayward, Lydia Hayward, Pete Lawford, Dave Mitchell, Jacqui Roe | Written and Directed by Lucy Harvey, Danielle Kummer I remember reading about this story a while ago and it seemed like a very obvious story to cover as a documentary. But Alien On Stage is so much more than you can imagine and […]
I am, on the whole, a positive person. Most people who know me would say I am laid back and happy, and this would be true. But I feel like the world we are living is making it harder and harder to be like that. I am luckier than most in that I have lots […]
Stars: Dee Wallace, Sarah Navratil, Kevin Patrick Murphy, Drez Ryan, Blaque Fowler, Anna Lynn Holleman, Penny Munroe, Maple Suttles, Piper Suttles | Written by Jennifer Trudrung | Directed by James Suttles The horror genre obviously hasn’t had enough movies about bees. You’d think Candyman would have started a trend (and The Nest seems to have […]
