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Arrow Video FrightFest will go virtual for the second time in 2020, having taken the difficult decision to cancel its planned physical event at the Cineworld, Leicester Square. due to continuing COVID...

Fragments of Fear returns for another episode focussing on the genre’s golden period, examining Edoardo Mulargia & Gian Paolo Lomi’s Haitian set 1972 giallo Tropic of Cancer; an entry that eschews...

Architect Will (Claes Bang) and artist Rosalind (Olga Kurylenko) certainly seem happy enough – getting engaged in Italy after a whirlwind romance and deciding to move to London together. Ros already has...

Following the cancellation of the traditional 5-day August event, Arrow Video FrightFest is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from October 22 – 25, 2020, with a packed programme of thirty-four new...

Set against the autumnal palette of harvest season in 1973, THE CURSE OF AUDREY EARNSHAW explores the disturbed bond between Audrey, an enigmatic young woman, and Agatha, her domineering 'mother',...

Four years after TRAIN TO BUSAN was voted the most popular FrightFest Closing Night film ever, comes the hotly anticipated stand-alone sequel, TRAIN TO BUSAN PRESENTS: PENINSULA, which will open this...

Independent cinema Pop Up Screens is back this winter, taking over Peckham's popular Bussey Building with a season of exciting and immersive events. Taking place from 23 October to 20 December, the 'Pop up...

Some of the most relevant thrillers, horror films, and dark dramas of the current age are the most quiet in their interrogation of the things our society holds dear. The Clovehitch Killer barely made a splash...

Wasn’t the 80s awesome? OK, not all of it, but there was the boom in gym-culture, power, excess, evolving technology, the end of the Cold War, MTV and everyone striving to be the best they can be…...

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...

In many ways a filmic companion piece to recent offerings Relic and Saint Maud, Sanzaru is another slow-burn horror flick that elects to focus on the relationship between carer and patient. And when I say...

Part Battle Royale, part Saw and part college frat film, Triggered plays out as bloody good fun. It is not perfect (I’ll explain later) and it obviously leans heavily on the films noted above, but that...

Taking the well-worn ‘rape-revenge’ model and giving it a new set of clothes, I Am Lisa delivers something a little bit different. It’s not entirely successful – the film arguably loses steam when...

One of our pleasant surprises from Frightfest is Triggered - the South African 'friends wake up in the woods to find themselves strapped into suicide vests' tension-fest. Part of the success of the film...

Carpenter, King & Kane Hodder…genre royalty ushers in Horror Channel’s September line-up of prime-time premieres, including the UK TV premiere of outlandish Brit Zom Com SHED OF THE DEAD, starring...

101 Films will release The Deep (1977) on Blu-ray on 14th September 2020. A lavish, suspense-filled adventure, directed by Peter Yates (Bullitt) and adapted from Jaws writer Peter Benchley’s best-selling...

Almost certainly best known for his comedy roles, Jay Baruchel elects to take a severe genre turn for his second directorial outing, switching to no-holds-barred horror. And no-holds-barred it certainly...

Ahead of Horror Channel’s UK TV premiere of Julian Richards’ REBORN, on Sat 22 August, actress, producer and genre icon Barbara Crampton reflects on how You’re Next changed the direction of her career,...

If horror film documentaries are your thing (and if not, why?) then you are spoiled for choice at Arrow Video Frightfest Digital as they present not one, not two, but three offerings. They all look good to...

A driver locks horns with a trucker in the Spielberg classic

‘All I want is for you to say sorry…’ A breakneck, violent, kinetic throwback of a movie, Unhinged harks back to that time in the 90s when psycho-thrillers were all the rage. That is not a slight...