Film4 Frightfest

Movie Ramblings were lucky enough to sit down and chat with Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires director Mike Mort about his sensational stop motion ode to the best of 80s action, horror and irreverence;...

Still haunted by the murder of her parents two decades before by a vengeful Elder God, Ren Reid (Samantha Schnitzler) is an agent at the Artemis Black Site, a secret underground military base where captured...

Can you spy him deep within? Little Possum. Black as sin.” Lugging a mysterious leather holdall, disgraced children’s entertainer Philip (Sean Harris) returns to his grim, desolate Norfolk hometown and...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein holds an almost untouchable place in the legacies of both literary history and pop culture iconography, with image of Karloff and his neck bolts firmly on the hypothetical horror...

Five years in the making, Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires has been eagerly awaited by Frightfest audiences, and I can happily say that not only does it exceed the great hopes and anticipation for a...

Waking up naked next to a desiccated corpse that bears more than a passing resemblance to herself seems nothing new for Emily (Elitsa Bako). Or at least it’s nothing new for Drew (voiced by Bill Oberst Jr.),...

By Dr Christopher Reynolds The scene that opens The Witch in the Window sets up both the premise and the themes of the film, with absent father Simon (Alex Draper) dropping in on his ex-wife Beverly (Arija...

British horror has a long and iconic relationship with religious and folk horror subgenre. From the seminal Unholy Trinity of Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man, through to Ben...

n a world ruled by violence, only tigers are not afraid. But it’s hard to be a tiger when even the safety of your classroom is regularly violated by gunfire and violence. Cowering on the floor during a...

Posing as an innocent teenager, thief Amber (Elyse Dufour) cons her way into the mansion of wealthy occult expert Ted Hooper (Joe Walz) under the pretext of babysitting his neurotic, reclusive son Kevin (Jack...

It’s the near future and, in post-Brexit Britain, bloody civil war rages between the fascistic, totalitarian government and the equally brutal rebel militia, the poor and dispossessed trapped between...

By Dr Christopher Reynolds Dementia Part II is one of those odd curiosities that comes from the modern equivalent of the underground horror scene. It has almost no mainstream appeal, and indeed, at only an...

Australian cinema through the decades, arguably forming within the explosion of exploitation and art in the 1970’s, has been a consistent cradle for the horror genre in a suitably wild spectrum of guises....

Tormented by the urge to murder his newborn baby, we first meet family man and closet psychopath Reed (Christopher Abbott) standing over the cot and contemplating driving an ice pick into the child’s...

By Dr Chris Reynolds The Cleaning Lady takes its cue from a number of films built around the prospect of an interloper gradually worming their way into the protagonist’s life and then disrupting it. Usually...

Jenn Wexler’s ballsy, brutal, energetic retro slasher The Ranger got the Frightfest party off to a flyer – tapping in to the current 80s genre craze to give the audience a welcome jolt of punk-infused...

Fancy another director interview ahead of next week's Frightfest festival? Of course you do, so here's ten questions with The Dark helmer Justin P Lange... Q. THE DARK is based on your Columbia University...

Arrow Video FrightFest 2018 showcases the best in short film from the UK and around the world, with ten countries representing five continents. From otherworldly ghosts to terrifying monsters, from the creepy...

A bit of creature feature carnage always goes down well at Frightfest, so Aussie offering Boar rolls in to fill that spot very nicely. The bonus this time is not only do we get a effects extravaganza with...

Fancy a splash of modern gothic with your Frightfest brew? If so, Braid may be the film for you. The feature debut of writer/director Mitzi Peirone (who already has the shorts Chaosmos and Vesperlings to...

One of the films that really caught our eye in the Frightfest line-up was Swedish entry Videoman, a throwback of sorts that leans on the current 80s fad to good effect. Now, my liking for the film may have...