15th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘All You Need is Death’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Simone Collins, Charlie Maher, Olwen Fouéré, Barry McKiernan, Nigel O’Neill, Catherine Siggins | Written and Directed by Paul Duane A young couple records and collects folk songs in rural Ireland, selling them to a mysterious, rich buyer. When rumours of a song never-before-heard reach the couple, they find themselves in an uneasy alliance with […]

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14th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘The Well’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Lauren LaVera, Claudia Gerini, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Linda Zampaglione, Yassine Fadel, Melanie Gaydos, Gianluigi Galvani, Courage Osabohine | Written by Federico Zampaglione, Stefano Masi | Directed by Federico Zampaglione Lisa Gray, a budding art restorer who travels to the small Italian village of Sambuci just outside Rome to bring a medieval painting back to […]

14th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘Custom’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Abigail Hardingham, Rowan Polonski, Brad Moore, Samantha Steel | Written and Directed by Tiago Teixeira Jasper and Harriet are arthouse pornographers struggling to make ends meet. Their stock in trade is producing custom-made erotic films for an exclusive clientele into the forbidden, the shocking and the strange. As they hit rock bottom, that’s when […]

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14th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘The Funeral’ & ‘The Last Straw’ Review

by Phil Wheat

THE FUNERAL Stars: Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Cansu Türedi, Tekin Temel | Directed by Orcun Behram Cemal, a lonely hearse driver, has been entrusted to secretly transport the body of a murdered young woman, Zeynep, to her parents’ home at their final request. But he hears strange groans from the back of the vehicle during the […]

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13th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘Mom’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Emily Hampshire, François Arnaud, Christian Convery, Tristan D. Lalla, Cat Lemieux, Erika Rosenbaum, Mariah Inger | Written by Adam O’Brien, Philip Kalin-Hajdu | Directed by Adam O’Brien Meredith is a struggling mother abandoned by her family and partner after the appalling death of their newborn son. Alone in her house after separating, she becomes […]

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13th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘Kill Your Lover’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Paige Gilmour, Shane Quigley Murphy, May Kelly | Written and Directed by Alix Austin, Keir Siewert Dakota has had enough of her toxic relationship with Axel, but the feeling isn’t mutual. As she tries to end things, Axel becomes something different, something monstrous. He gradually succumbs to the poison of the decaying relationship, becoming […]

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12th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘Wake Up’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Turlough Convery, Benny O. Arthur, Jacqueline Moré, Tom Gould, Alessia Yoko Fontana, Kyle Scudder | Written by Alberto Marini | Directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell From RKSS, the directorial collective behind Turbo Kid, Summer of 84 and We Are Zombies, comes Wake Up, which sees a group of young activists set […]

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12th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘The invisible Raptor’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Mike Capes, David Shackelford, Sean Astin, Sandy Martin, Caitlin McHugh, Bobby Gilchrist, Larry Hankin, Bill Kottkamp | Written by Mike Capes, Johnny Wickham | Directed by Mike Hermosa The Tyler Corporation has finally figured out how to engineer a prehistoric raptor genetically, but they didn’t stop there… they also made it invisible. Unfortunately for […]

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11th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘The Deep Dark’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Samuel LeBihan, Amir El Kacem, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Thomas Solivérès, Diego Martín, Marc Riso, Bruno Sanches | Written and Directed by Mathieu Turi It’s 1856, and in the historic coal mines of Northern France, a group of miners find themselves trapped in the subterranean depths after a cave-in. But they soon realise they are not […]

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11th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘The Soul Eater’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Paul Hamy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Francis Renaud | Written by Annelyse Batrel, Ludovic Lefebvre | Directed by Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury Two detectives with entirely different work methods are sent to the sleepy French mountain town of Roquenoir. One is investigating a series of gruesome deaths. The other is searching for some missing […]

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22nd Feb2024

Interview: Horror filmmaker Federico Zampaglione

by Phil Wheat

Ahead of the UK premiere of graphic and disturbing supernatural horror film The Well at FrightFest Glasgow 2024, director Federico Zampaglione talks about returning to hardcore horror, working with the late, great Giovanni Lombardo Radice and emerging from the shadow of Italian masters of the genre. So, Federico, The Well has its UK premiere at […]

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13th Feb2024

Guest list announced for Glasgow Frightfest 2024

by Phil Wheat

The UK’s No.1 horror fantasy event FrightFest, which returns to Glasgow for its 19th year from Thursday 7 March to Saturday 9 March 2024, have announced the incredible line-up of talent that will grace the eagerly-anticipated event: Schitt’s Creek and The Rig star Emily Hampshire will be hosting the World Premiere of MOM, alongside the […]

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12th Feb2024

Frightfest announce additional title for this year’s Glasgow event

by Phil Wheat

The UK’s No.1 horror film festival, FrightFest, which returns to the renowned Glasgow for its 19th year from Thursday 7 March to Saturday 9 March 2024, has announced it will be screening the UK premiere of The Soul Eater, from co-directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, who, as part of the vanguard of French Extreme […]

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19th Jan2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024 line-up announced!

by Phil Wheat

FrightFest, the UK’s No.1 horror fantasy event, returns to the renowned Glasgow Film Festival for its 19th year, from Thursday 7th March to Saturday 9th March 2024. This year’s diverse and creative line-up, once again housed at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, showcases the latest new releases from the horror, chiller and fantastic realms by […]

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