Author David Watson

GOD BLESS COCAINE! For what else can be responsible for the vision, the hubris, the madness, the folly, that inspired mainstream film executives to think it was a great idea to give folk horror genius...

  Louder than a brass band being kicked down a flight of steps and through a glass door and edited to within a flicker of biting your tongue off epileptic seizure, Ambulance is indeed a tale told by an...

Can a film be evil? I'm not talking about cursed films. We've all heard tales of cursed films, usually films of a supernatural bent, The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, films where cast and crew members died...

In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the future, the gaudy, neon-splashed frontier city of Samurai Town is the closest thing to civilisation, ruled over with an iron fist by the sleazy, despotic Governor...

*SPOILER WARNING – The Sadness features scenes of extreme sexual violence which will shock and offend some viewers* After a year of lockdowns battling a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a...

Having survived being blown up and a near death experience on the battlefield in the dying days of the Great War, Tomás (Viktor Klem) travels the frozen Hungarian countryside as part of a travelling fair,...

Rushed to hospital with appendicitis, Sharyn (Ashlynn Yennie) wakes up after surgery not in a hospital but chained to a bed in a dank underground medical facility presided over by the sinister Dr Hellenbach...

1275. A young girl is imprisoned in the dungeons of an abbey where an alchemist and his secret order use her for their strange experiments, repeatedly raping her and stealing the offspring she bears. But a...

Woozy. Dreamlike. Hallucinatory. Psychedelic. Phantasmagoria. Fever dream. These are all words you can expect to find peppering reviews of Kevin Kopacka’s lush, ravishing Dawn Breaks Behind The Eyes...

So, it’s Halloween again (well, nearly). But you don’t just wanna watch Halloween again - or even give the latest Michael Myers outing a rewatch. The problem is horror is such an eco-friendly...

A young couple meet for a passionate tryst in a dingy shagpad in a small rural town , a few stolen moments, but both are edgy, flinching at every random sound. When she hits the shower, there’s a...

Already something of a hit at FrightFest Glasgow, a lonely oddjob man meets a quite literally kindred spirit in A Ghost Waits, a sweet, whimsically affecting horror rom-com from director Adam Stovall. When...

Australia! The land down under. Where the native floral and fauna wants to kill you, eat you and root you, likely in that order. Where just going outdoors in the daytime gives you cancer and getting to the...

***SPOILER! Please remember as you read this that I'm fundamentally a bitter, mean-spirited turnip who's secretly devastated he'll never know love...***  I have a good friend who perplexes...

After years of terrifying audiences, enfant terrible, horror playwright Jack Travis (William Holstead) buys a haunted Scottish castle and moves in with his pouty emo teenage daughter Bee (Grace...

Traumatised by the aftermath of a mass shooting and troubled by the break-up of his parents' marriage, shy child Luke is befriended by the cooler, more confident Daniel and soon the two boys are spending all...

So poor they live in a subterranean hovel that regularly floods or fills with toxic fumes courtesy of the local exterminators, the Kim family live desperate lives, working low-paid, menial jobs to try and get...

Gang raped and left for dead, her husband and baby murdered, when the local authorities refuse to take action against the gang of soldiers responsible, Irish convict Claire (Aisling Franciosi) swears...

In the medieval town of Seaside (nowhere near the sea), puppeteers Professor Punch (Damon Herriman) and his wife Judy (Mia Wasikowska) are a sensation, their rowdy theatre show playing to packed audiences who...

Cute-as-a-button flibbertigibbet Kate (Emilia Clarke), a talented singer with West End dreams who just can’t seem to catch a break, is stuck in something of a rut. Adrift in London, she’s...

Arguably one of the best film’s at this year’s FrightFest, it’s Closing Night film Abner Pastoll’s A Good Woman Is Hard To Find feels even more ferocious now that it’s being...