The Best Foreign Horror Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen David Watson October 20, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Halloween 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 genre, the...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: AV – The Hunt David Watson August 31, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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 violent...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: A Ghost Waits David Watson August 30, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Dark Place David Watson August 30, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: The Horror Crowd David Watson August 29, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews ***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...
1.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Playhouse David Watson August 29, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
2.0 DVD Review: Daniel Isn’t Real David Watson February 24, 2020 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice 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...
5.0 Movie Review: Parasite David Watson February 4, 2020 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
5.0 Movie Review: The Nightingale David Watson November 25, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Movie Review: Judy & Punch David Watson November 22, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
2.0 Movie Review: Last Christmas David Watson November 15, 2019 Movie Reviews 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 sofa...
4.0 Movie Review: A Good Woman Is Hard To Find David Watson October 28, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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 released just in time...
3.5 Rental Review: 3 From Hell David Watson October 14, 2019 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice In the documentary accompanying the film as part of the extra content on the 3 From Hell Blu-Ray, a shaven-headed Bill Moseley, eyes twinkling with mischief, and a visibly ailing Sid Haig reminisce about...
4.0 Movie Review: Ready Or Not David Watson September 23, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews An orphan who’s bounced from foster home to foster home while growing up, Grace’s (Samara Weaving) dreams of being part of a loving family seem finally to be coming true when she finally marries Alex...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Rabid David Watson September 9, 2019 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Timid, mousy designer Rose (Laura Vandervoort) dreams of taking the glamourous fashion world by storm but in an arena where looks and confidence seems to count for more than talent, Rose is lacking the...
4.0 Movie Review: Memory – The Origins Of Alien David Watson September 4, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Released back in 1979, Alien represented as much of a seismic shift in sci-fi and horror cinema as Jaws and Star Wars did to the Summer Blockbuster or the French New Wave did to the Movie Brat generation,...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Deeper You Dig David Watson September 4, 2019 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Every year at FrightFest there’s a film I rave about, that I get evangelical about, that I breathlessly run up to people and grab them and shake them and tell them “You HAVE to see this...
4.0 Movie Review: Crawl David Watson September 4, 2019 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews When she can’t get in touch with her divorced, estranged father, Dave (Barry Pepper), as a massive hurricane batters Florida, college swimming champ (pay attention, that’ll prove important!) Haley (Kaya...
3.5 Arrow Video Frighfest Review: The Sonata David Watson August 25, 2019 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews When notoriously reclusive composer Richard Marlowe (Rutger Hauer) commits operatic suicide, dousing himself in petrol and burning himself alive, his estranged daughter Rose (Freya Tingley) inherits his...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Darlin’ David Watson August 25, 2019 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Arguably one of the sickest, most depraved, downright disturbing and, crucially, truly feminist horror movies of recent years, Lucky McKee’s 2011 Jack Ketchum-authored The Woman saw Pollyanna McIntosh’s...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Magnificent Obsession Of Michael Reeves David Watson August 25, 2019 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews The Magnificent Obsession Of Michael Reeves as titles go is somewhat misleading. A far better title would have been The Magnificent Obsession Of Dima Ballin. Perhaps better known as the founder and...