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 cam…the same...
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 director Katie...
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...
2.0 Frightfest Glasgow review: 88 Ian White February 27, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Reviews When Gwen walks into the diner she's ready for trouble, but after sitting down at the counter and giving her order something changes inside her. Suddenly she doesn't know where she is and she certainly doesn't...
4.0 Frightfest Glasgow review: The Paper Round Simon Fitzjohn February 27, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, Glasgow, Glasgow Reviews Having built a cult following thanks to her two previous shorts, Katie Bonham returns to the director’s chair with her latest effort, The Paper Round. A sizeable step forward from the frenetic,...