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...
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...
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...
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...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: The Asylum Simon Fitzjohn February 20, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Having waded through horror remake after horror remake thus far in his career, director Marcus Nispel attempts to throw us something new in the shape of The Asylum, which also appears to have been known as...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: Blood and Black Lace Simon Fitzjohn February 15, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews If there is one thing that our friends at Frightfest do well (actually, they do a lot well - but stick with us) it's showing plenty of respect and reverence for the genre's past. The upcoming Glasgow...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: Wyrmwood Simon Fitzjohn February 10, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Any film that is billed as 'Mad Max meets Dawn Of The Dead' certainly gets my vote, which is why I'm all over Aussie zombie epic Wyrmwood. And that was before I saw the trailer, which only heightens...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: The Treatment Simon Fitzjohn February 6, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews It's taken quite a while for The Treatment to reach British shores (just about a year in fact), but if the trailer is anything to go by, Frightfest Glasgow audiences are in for a treat. A stirring mix of...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: 88 Simon Fitzjohn February 3, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews When we first saw the line-up for Frightfest's Glasgow shindig, 88 pretty much jumped off the page. After all, mention the words violent revenge thriller and Katherine Isabelle in the same sentence and I'm...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: The Atticus Institute Simon Fitzjohn February 2, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Here we go with yet another horror 'From a producer of The Conjuring and Annabelle'. But, to be fair, we're willing to give The Atticus Institute a chance, thanks mainly to a pretty effective trailer, which...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: Clown Simon Fitzjohn January 29, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Clowns and horror have been pretty good bedfellows in the past, whether they be successful films (think Pennywise in It), or pretty crap films (think Ross Noble's Stitches). Looking to put a new spin on...
Frightfest Glasgow preview: Eliza Graves Simon Fitzjohn January 27, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews Hoping to kick-off the Glasgow horrorathon in some style, Edgar Allan Poe adaptation Eliza Graves will open this year's February Frightfest on Thursday, 26 February. Based on Poe's story The System Of...
Frightfest announces Glasgow line-up Simon Fitzjohn January 21, 2015 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Previews It's that time of year again, when we start mulling over the various horror festivals that will crop up in 2015, wondering what gory delights await us. Kicking things off in style will be February's annual...