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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03rd Mar2022

Frightfest Glasgow 2022 – The line-up in full

by Phil Wheat

The UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival is back in person at the Glasgow Film Theatre, which for 17 glorious years has been FrightFest’s second home, as part of the internationally renowned Glasgow Film Festival. From Thursday 10th March to Saturday 12th March, FrightFest opens its terror trove to present twelve tasty treasures; an […]

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04th Mar2019

Glasgow Frightfest 2019: ‘The Rusalka’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Margaret Ying Drake, MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel | Written and Directed by Perry Blackshear Writer-director Perry Blackshear reunites the cast of his debut feature They Look Like People (2015) for The Rusalka (aka The Siren), ahaunting tale of obsession, love and revenge. Evan Dumouchel plays Tom, a mute from a sheltered background who rents […]

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04th Mar2019

Glasgow Frightfest 2019: ‘Here Comes Hell’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Margaret Clunie, Timothy Renouf, Tom Bailey, Jessica Webber, Charlie Robb, Robert Llewellyn, Nicholas Le Prevost, Jasper Britton, Maureen Bennett | Written by Jack McHenry, Alice Sidgwick | Directed by Jack McHenry Filmed in black and white, with cut-glass British accents and a dodgy American in the cocktail party mix, a sophisticated 1930s soiree at […]

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27th Feb2019

Glasgow Frightfest Interview: Perry Blackshear on ‘The Rusalka’

by Phil Wheat

Ahead of the UK premiere of The Rusalka at Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow 2019, director Perry Blackshear tells us about the joys of collaboration, his love of fairy tales and finding romance in horror. Can you give us some fun facts about your background and why you wanted to direct? Our family got a little […]

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19th Feb2016

Interview: Alexandre Aja & Jeremy Sisto talk ‘The Other Side of the Door’

by Phil Wheat

The latest film from director Johannes Roberts, the man behind the excellent Frightfest flick F, The Other Side of the Door stars Sarah Wayne Callies and Jeremy Sisto; and tells the story of a family whose idyllic existence is destroyed when a tragic accident takes the life of their young son. The inconsolable mother (Callies) learns of an […]

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