Why I Love: Fright Night Chris Faers October 9, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love 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...
Month Of Myers: Halloween 4 (1988) Simon Fitzjohn October 8, 2020 Editor's Choice, From The Vault, Halloween Michael Myers returns.....again
Arrow Video Frightfest Interview: Neil Marshall Simon Fitzjohn October 8, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Interviews, London, London Previews 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...
4.5 Movie Review: Saint Maud Simon Fitzjohn October 6, 2020 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
Month Of Myers: Halloween II (1981) Simon Fitzjohn October 5, 2020 Editor's Choice, From The Vault Michael Myers returns in this solid sequel
3.0 Blu-ray Review: Brain Dead (1990) Simon Fitzjohn September 27, 2020 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice 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...
From The Vault: Blue Steel (1989) Simon Fitzjohn September 27, 2020 Editor's Choice, From The Vault Jamie Lee Curtis' cop is tormented by psycho Ron Silver
Arrow Video Frightfest move October event online Simon Fitzjohn September 23, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews 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 Episode 11: Tropic Of Cancer (1972) Simon Fitzjohn September 20, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Fragments of Fear, Podcasts 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...
3.0 Rental Review: The Bay Of Silence Simon Fitzjohn September 20, 2020 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice 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...
Arrow Video Frightfest unveil October extravaganza Simon Fitzjohn September 17, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews 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...
Trailer arrives for The Curse Of Audrey Earnshaw Simon Fitzjohn September 14, 2020 Editor's Choice, Latest News and Videos 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',...
Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula to launch October Frightfest Simon Fitzjohn September 10, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London 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...
Pop Up Screens head to Peckham Simon Fitzjohn September 8, 2020 Editor's Choice, Latest News and Videos 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...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: The Swerve Anya Stanley September 3, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
Why I Love: Rocky IV Chris Faers September 2, 2020 Editor's Choice, Features, Why I Love 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…...
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...
3.0 Fantasia Review: Sanzaru Simon Fitzjohn August 30, 2020 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 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...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Triggered Simon Fitzjohn August 28, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: I Am Lisa Simon Fitzjohn August 28, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
Arrow Video Frightfest Interview: Triggered’s Reine Swart Simon Fitzjohn August 27, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Interviews, London, London Interviews 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...