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Every so often, as a film writer and overall genre fan, you get stumped by a movie. Amulet was definitely one of those – full disclosure, I tried to watch it the first time when way too tired and...

Sometimes, you cannot help but admire a film that wears its crapness proudly on its sleeve and just says, you know what – to hell with it. Miracle Valley certainly fits that bill – stuffed to...

Devastated by the brutal chaos of 2002’s World War III, young father Troy (Stephen Moyer) elects to grab his son, give up on what remains of mankind and hotfoot it to an isolated cabin in the...

Dinner parties can prove fertile ground for genre content – after all, Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation remains one of my favourite offerings of the last decade or so. Trying to put a British...

Following on from its hugely successful August five-day event, Arrow Video FrightFest is back at the Cineworld, Leicester Square with a bumper two-day Halloween event on Friday 29th Oct and Sat 30th October,...

Inventive, gruesome and bloody good fun, When The Screaming Starts is one of those films that creeps up at Frightfest, catches you unawares and then leaves a lasting impression. Essentially a creative spin...

FRIGHTFEST REVIEW ROUND-UP The Last Thing Mary Saw – a moody, at times very effective period piece, Stefanie Scott and Isabelle Fuhrman star as Mary and Eleanor, clandestine lovers trying to...

*SPOILER WARNING – The Sadness features scenes of extreme sexual violence which will shock and offend some viewers* After a year of lockdowns battling a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a...

Having survived being blown up and a near death experience on the battlefield in the dying days of the Great War, Tomás (Viktor Klem) travels the frozen Hungarian countryside as part of a travelling fair,...

I am not sure I have ever written this in a review before, but I strongly urge you to stop reading right now – unless you’ve already watched Greywood’s Plot that is. It is nothing to...

Taking the fascination with serial killers – and serial killer films – and then shaking things up somewhat, Killer Concept gives us something a bit different – offbeat even – to...

Rushed to hospital with appendicitis, Sharyn (Ashlynn Yennie) wakes up after surgery not in a hospital but chained to a bed in a dank underground medical facility presided over by the sinister Dr Hellenbach...

A brutal, bloody rampage of revenge, The Retaliators is one of those films that knows exactly what the audience wants – and delivers in spades. It’s as if directors Samuel Gonzalez Jr and...

By Alan Graham “Isolation” is an anthology film shot during the pandemic’s first lockdown, telling nine different stories in nine different locations. The stories take place in a...

Yet another movie to focus on the exploits of the notorious Ted Bundy, No Man Of God adopts a different tack by zeroing in on the serial killer’s final years on Death Row. Using the real-life...

OK, I’ll level with you – when you watch as many films as I do, and then go on to review some of them, occasionally you come up against a very peculiar problem. The problem? Well, in very...

1275. A young girl is imprisoned in the dungeons of an abbey where an alchemist and his secret order use her for their strange experiments, repeatedly raping her and stealing the offspring she bears. But a...

Offering up an Irish take on the ‘folk horror’ genre that seems to be having something of a revival, Bring Out The Fear sees Frightfest fan (and New Blood alumni) Richard Waters bring his latest...

“At some point you just have to accept your nightmares – they are part of you, family – like an old friend.” Haunting, creepy as hell, atmospheric and oh-so effective, Offseason...

First time writer/director Leroy Kincaide opts for demonic possession for his debut feature, throwing in some night terrors and a shadowy (potential) demon for good measure. Bethan Waller takes lead duties...

Life can be hard. The bank calling you to chase up payments. Your wife claiming you hate her mother. The reality of becoming a father for the first time and the inevitable battles over baby...