In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires with the writer/director Mike Mort. When the brilliant but sexually inexperienced computer science student PIET is turned down by bright and beautiful KLARA, he is deeply hurt. He takes a dose of a sleep […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks The Devil’s Doorway with the writer/director Aislinn Clarke. In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for ‘fallen women’, only to uncover […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks A Young Man With High Potential with the writer/director Linus De Paoli. When the brilliant but sexually inexperienced computer science student PIET is turned down by bright and beautiful KLARA, he is deeply hurt. He takes a dose of a […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks The Tokoloshe with the director Jerome Pikwane. Busi, a young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions, lands a job as a cleaner at a rundown hospital in the heart of Johannesburg. Desperate for the money so she can bring her […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks The Night Sitter with co-writers/directors Abiel Bruhn & John Rocco. One thief. Two kids. Three witches. No mercy. A scheming con artist Amber (Elyse DuFour, ‘The Walking Dead’) poses as an innocent babysitter to steal from a wealthy occult enthusiast […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks Perfect Skin with director Kevin Chicken. Katia, a young Polish woman, is adrift in London and meets Bob, an American tattoo artist with a reverence for his craft. Slowly she is drawn to his mysterious world and the taboo culture […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks Ctrl with director/co-writer Harry Lindley and co-writer/star Julian Mack. Lex arrives at her reclusive brother Leo’s apartment for a long-overdue reconciliation with her new boyfriend Dru, who is eager to impress. Unfortunately, Leo is far more interested in his creation […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks The Witch in the Window with with the writer/director Andy Mitton. Andy Mitton, co-writer and co-director of WE GO ON and YELLOWBRICKROAD, goes solo with a staggeringly effective, character-driven supernatural horror. Stunningly scripted and performed, this gripping paranormal chiller tells […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks The Cleaning Lady the production designer, co-writer and star Alexis Kendra. As a means to distract herself from an affair with a married man, love-addicted beautician Alice befriends her soft-spoken, reclusive cleaning lady Shelley, facially scarred by burns from a […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks The Ranger with writer/director Jenn Wexler. It’s the 1980s and a group of punks get busted selling drugs. Because a police officer gets fatally wounded in the showdown, Chelsea offers up her uncle’s cabin in a nearby national park as […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks Hell Is Where The Home Is with screenwriter Corey Deshon. Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks Cult of Terror with the director Gustavo Leonel Mendoza. Fear is an art form, an adrenaline trip with a rock spirit. Why is it that our attraction for the morbid, the sinister and the horrific can create the greatest of […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks Puppet Master: The Little Reich with FX Artist Tate Steinsiek. Check out our review of the film right here. Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar returns to his childhood home to regroup his life. When Edgar finds a nefarious looking puppet […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks Terrified (aka Aterrados) with the writer/director Demian Rugna. A husband returns home to find his wife terrified to enter the bathroom because there are voices coming from the pipes. Voices promising to kill her… As she turns into a bloody […]
In the latest installment of his Frightfest 2018 pre-festival preview series, host Stuart Wright talks Ravers with the screenwriter Luke Foster. Ravers follows an illegal night-time rave, in a factory where contaminated energy drinks caused a worker to go fatally berserk, that turns into a nightmare. As a forgotten batch of the drink is found […]
In the latest of his Frightfest pre-festival interviews, host Stuart Wright talks Videoman (aka Videomannen) with the writer/director Kristian A Soderstrom. A Giallo obsessed VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a valuable video movie that could save him from eviction. When it gets stolen he starts a desperate hunt for the black-gloved perpetrator, meeting […]
In the latest of his Frightfest pre-festival interviews, host Stuart Wright talks Heretiks with director Paul Hyett. Early in the seventeenth century, a young woman, Persephone, is falsely accused, arrested and put on trial for her life. Her fate seems sealed but for the timely intervention of a stranger, the mysterious Reverend Mother, who offers […]
In a departure from the usual British cinema and Frightfest coverage, host Stuart Wright talks with South African filmmaker Uga Lisa Carlini about her experiences making a harrowing, yet inspiring documentary of one person’s survival: Alison In 1994 Alison Botha is raped then stabbed more than 60 times. Left for dead, she finds the will […]
In the first of his annual Frightfest interviews, host Stuart Wright talks Lifechanger with the writer/director Justin McConnell. Catch it at ARROW VIDEO FRIGHTFEST 23rd to 27th August 2018 LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, WC2H 7NA. Programme and tickets are available at http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2018Films/frightfest-schedule-2018.html www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.html Justin is also CEO of UNSTABLE GROUND, Programmer at TORONTO AFTER DARK and […]
In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks with Deborah Haywood about her debut feature films Pin Cushion, which will be released in select cinemas across the UK from Friday 13th July. Super close Mother LYN and daughter IONA are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of […]
In his latest podcast, host Stuart Wright talks with screenwriter Bobby Lee Darby (See No Evil 2) about his picks of 5 Great British Horror Films – which include: Night Of The Demon (1957) Repulsion (1965) The Devil Rides Out (1968) The Descent (2005) Metalhead About Bobby Lee Darby: Bobby Lee Darby is a writer […]
In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks to director Keith English about the period, comedy/drama The More You Ignore Me. Written by Jo Brand and starring Sheridan Smith, Ella Hunt, Mark Addy, Sally Phillips and Sheila Hancock. Alice (Ella Hunt) and her family are far from conventional. Residing in a cottage in rural Hertfordshire, […]
