Author Simon Fitzjohn

Ramping up the mind games, while throwing in some impressive bloodshed for good measure, writer/director Damon Rickard returns with his latest effective short, Stolen. Bigger, and arguably better, than his...

There's no doubt that genre legend Barbara Crampton is a firm favourite of the Frightfest community - after all, not only has she had a slew of films screen at the festival over the last few years, she's also...

World premieres can never be a bad thing, and one of the more interesting selections on offer at this year's shindig is director Tom Paton's Redwood. Hopefully a twist on the camping horror tales so loved...

Hitting select cinemas on August 25 before a TVOD release three days later (and a DVD outing in October), Bushwick certainly looks as though it will pack a punch. Perhaps that is not entirely surprising...

It's always great to see someone whose work you've been championing making that all-important breakthrough, so when director Kate Shenton's hugely enjoyable Egomaniac began making waves we were over the...

To be honest, Replace had me interested the second the words 'written by Richard Stanley' popped up atop the press release. But the film looks set to have a lot more to offer than just that, as the trailer...

Available this week on download, with the DVD/Blu-Ray set to follow suit shortly, Ghost In The Shell sees Scarlett Johansson take on the iconic manga role, bringing it to the big (and now small) screen in a...

I've got to be honest, I've always been a fan of the 'lesser-known' Hammer offerings, whether it be Valerie Leon's voluptuous turn in Blood From The Mummy's Tomb, or Shane Briant's 'psycho with a difference'...

With twenty-six films over three days, including ten World, four European and seven UK premieres, Horror Channel FrightFest’s short film showcase unleashes this year’s eclectic mix of the bold, brave,...

One of the more intriguing offerings at this year's Frightfest is director Louis Melville's Boots On The Ground, a fresh take on the found footage genre that sees a bunch of British soldiers get far more than...

A bonus addition to the festival line-up, Jackals looks set to make a great genre shindig even better. Put together by director Kevin Greutert, whose back catalogue is impressive stuff - he's directed the...

Okay, so I know as far as 'modern-day' Mia Farrow goes, acting very much seems to be in the rear-view mirror - in fact it has been more than six years since she appeared on screen, instead now devoting her...

Take a look at the trailer for 68 Kill (which we've kindly included below) and I think you'd be hard-pressed to squeeze it into the 'horror' genre - violent, darkly comic entertainment maybe, but 'horror' -...

'What happens when the ride really breaks.......?' Looking as though it could be a whole load of bloody fun, director Preston DeFrancis' Ruin Me cruises into London for its world premiere no...

Matthew Heaven's £10,000 debut feature Accountable look set to be one of the more intriguing offering at this year's genre festival. A tale of anger, frustration and social anxiety, the film stars Oliver...

With Horror Channel Frightfest 2017 just a month away, the anticipation continues to build. And that anticipation was certainly heightened by the release of the mammoth guest list set to descend on London...

Regular readers of our site will know that we have been lucky enough to have followed the ever-expanding career of director Katie Bonham pretty much from day one. We may even have been the first outlet to...

Exploration has become something of an obsession for the human race. Unhappy with our own lot, we have often been known to scout the far reaches of the earth in search of something else, something different...

Billed as an 'action-packed supernatural heist thriller' (which, to be fair, seems a pretty inventive choice), the first trailer for The Vault has landed. Set for UK cinemas on September 8, the film is...

I'm a sucker for a good festive fright flick - in fact, Bob Clark's seminal 1974 masterpiece Black Christmas is in my top five favourite films of all time. For that reason I was pretty stoked when the...

Fancy a couple of clips to whet the appetite for upcoming 'creepy doll' sequel Annabelle: Creation? Of course you do. Continuing the journey of what I suppose we should call the 'Conjuring Universe', the...