Frightfest Interview: A Cloud So High director Christopher Parson Simon Fitzjohn March 10, 2022 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow Previews, Interviews Ahead of FrightFest’s UK premiere of A CLOUD SO HIGH at the Glasgow Film Festival, director Christopher Parson talks about his encounter with a peeping tom, casting a serial killer and writing demented...
Frightfest unveil Glasgow line-up Simon Fitzjohn January 21, 2022 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow The UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival is back in person at the Glasgow Film Theatre, which for 17 glorious years has been FrightFest’s second home, as part of the internationally renowned...
Frightfest Interview: Director Alexis Bruchon Simon Fitzjohn March 1, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Interviews Ahead of FrightFest’s UK special screening of THE WOMAN WITH LEOPARD SHOES at the Glasgow Film Festival, director Alexis Bruchon talks about his love of Noir, casting his brother and directing in his...
Frightfest unveil Glasgow 2021 line-up Simon Fitzjohn January 18, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow Frightfest have launched the 16th edition of Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow, which, despite continuing COVID-19 restrictions, is back to present a virtual six-pack of tasty titles; an extravaganza of the dark...
Arrow Video Frightfest interview: Adam Stovall Simon Fitzjohn February 24, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Ahead of the World premiere of A GHOST WAITS at Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow 2020, director Adam Stovall reflects on getting through depression, creating paranormal romance and the influence of Tom...
Arrow Video Frightfest unleash Glasgow line-up Simon Fitzjohn January 22, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow Welcome to the transgressive, the traumatic and the terrifying as Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event, returns to Glasgow Film Festival for a 15th fantastic year, from...
Arrow Video FrightFest announces Glasgow Film Festival 2019 line-up Simon Fitzjohn January 10, 2019 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow It’s full scream ahead as Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event, returns to Glasgow Film Festival for a 14th fearful year, from Thursday 28 February to Saturday 2...
French shocker Raw steps into the Horror Channel Frightfest breach Simon Fitzjohn January 19, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow Previews One person's misfortune is another's opportunity as the saying goes, so as Patient Zero disappears from the Horror Channel Frightfest Glasgow schedule (for reasons beyond their control we are told), along...
Frightfest 2017 Interview: Joanne Mitchell Simon Fitzjohn January 17, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews, Women Of Horror Adult Babies gets an exclusive reveal at Horror Channel Frightfest Glasgow 2017. The film's creator, actress/producer Joanne Mitchell, star of Before Dawn and Bait, answers ten scary questions: Q. When did...
4.0 Frightfest Glasgow Review: The Mind’s Eye Matthew Hammond February 28, 2016 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow Reviews Modern horror cinema has increasingly become a singular shade rather than an expansive palette; in recent years, it has fallen into the same set ups…the same jumps…the same handheld shaky...
4.5 Frightfest Glasgow review: Mindless Simon Fitzjohn February 23, 2016 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow Reviews If I’m totally honest with you, it’s pretty difficult to review Mindless without giving too much of the game away. And ‘the game’, as it were, is the beauty at the dark heart of...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: The Forest Simon Fitzjohn February 11, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow Debuting at Frightfest before rolling out across the nation (on Feb 26), The Forest appears a canny mix of fictional scares played out against the backdrop of real-life events, and it's one we are looking...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: Anguish Matthew Hammond February 11, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Compared to arguably the most impressive, effective and culturally intelligent American horror film of last year, It Follows, Anguish has been lauded as a truly compelling modern possession...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: Patchwork Matthew Hammond February 10, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow Previews The grand mythology of the Frankenstein monster has been a ripe space for cinematic interpretation through the entire history of the form. From the flickering early experiment from the Edison Studios in 1910,...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: The Mind’s Eye Matthew Hammond February 9, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Joe Begos delighted genre addicts in search of a true throwback 80s sci fi horror experience in 2014 when he unleashed Almost Human, a film that channelled the industrious and eerie brutality of cult films...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: The Wave Matthew Hammond February 9, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Over the years, the disaster film has become a sub-genre firmly entrenched within the broader spectrum of blockbuster cinema, a form that is so often a splintered collage of genre shards that act as crude...
Frightfest Glasgow interview: Joe Begos Simon Fitzjohn February 9, 2016 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Ahead of the UK Premiere of THE MIND’S EYE at the Glasgow Film Festival, FrightFest probes the mind of director Joe Begos. Here's a Q&A from the set of the film: Q: Have you got your love of...
Frightfest Glasgow interview: Baskin director Can Evrenol Simon Fitzjohn January 27, 2016 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, FrightFest ask the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: BASKIN is visually and narratively very ambitious for...
Katie Bonham to debut latest film Mindless at Glasgow Frightfest Simon Fitzjohn January 11, 2016 Bonham's Burial, Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Movie Ramblings fave Katie Bonham's fourth horror short, Mindless, starring Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Nightbreed), has been selected to screen its world premiere at this years...
3.0 Frightfest Glasgow review: The Treatment Matthew Hammond March 1, 2015 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Reviews The death of innocence is perhaps the cruellest and most devastating crime of all, and as such depictions of such a heinous corruption are treated in cinema with both aggressive and tender examinations. Hans...
3.5 Frightfest Glasgow review: The Atticus Institute Guest Writer March 1, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Reviews By Andreas Charalambous Following the sudden and mysterious closure of a parapsychological research centre in the mid-70s, the premise of The Atticus Institute is an investigation into the previously...