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When I was a kid, my sister and I would have weekend sleepovers at my aunt and uncle’s every year on our Birthdays. Luckily, they were young, insanely cool and would spoil us rotten: get in all kinds of...

Michael Myers returns.....again

Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest film THE RECKONING, Neil Marshall talks about the desire for creative freedom, putting leading lady Charlotte Kirk through hell, his love for FrightFest...

How many horror films can you count on that left a lasting impression on you – sort of like a nasty scab that just won’t heal, no matter how much you want it to? That’s how I feel about Saint Maud, a...

Michael Myers returns in this solid sequel

Mind melts, brain operations and some off-the-wall imagery is the name of the game in Brain Dead, a 1990 offering given the restoration treatment by 101 Films. Based on a 60s script by Twilight Zone scribe...

Jamie Lee Curtis' cop is tormented by psycho Ron Silver

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...