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New Zealand horror has found itself quite a little niche at Frightfest over the years, with the likes of Deathgasm certainly going down well with genre audiences. Well, the good news if you are a fan of...

Extra films, a stacked guest line-up, nominees and a trailer reel - today is a good day to get excited about next month's Arrow Video Frightfest. Here's the press release that just landed: Two extra...

It is fair to say Turbo Kid went down well when it landed at Frightfest back in 2015 - a gory retro/futuristic trip that had the audience hooting and hollering. Well, the good news is the directorial trio...

Last year's Cult Of Chucky certainly got Frightfest up and running with a crowd-pleasing bang, and no doubt genre fans heading to London are expecting the same from this slice of retro 80s splatter. The...

Remaining in the heart of London’s West End for its 19th edition, the world renowned horror and fantasy film festival turbo-charges into the Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema from Aug...

Horror Channel FrightFest Halloween 2017 unleashes seven choice shockers for the 7th annual West End Halloween chillorama – a wits-end wallow in all things gruesome, gory and glorious. This year, the...

Riffing on everything from the likes of Dog Soldiers and Cockneys vs Zombies (and many more), Eat Locals is a scattergun affair that just about succeeds due to sheer verve. The directorial debut of Jason...

An 80s throwback that never quite makes enough of its premise, The Terror Of Hallow’s Eve is certainly a watchable affair. High on style and with a pleasant focus on practical effects, it’s a pretty...

By Laura Dee Milnes In the opening scenes of this follow up to the ultraviolent Meatball Machine (2005), we languidly follow the muted despair of Yoji Tanaka's middle-aged, useless, grey and gloomy...

I love many, many things about the horror genre, but one of the most satisfying is the ability of the genre to throw up fresher slants and new takes on well-worn routes, giving things a welcome shot in the...

Plagued by a painful condition that causes her flesh to dry and peel, sloughing off like snake skin, beautiful, young Kira (Rebecca Forsythe) experiences a disquieting sense of déjà vu when visiting upmarket...

Angry and directionless, stuck in a mundane call centre job and drinking like he’s Oliver Reed on a Berlin stag do, Warren (Oliver Towner) is a man adrift, barely able to keep in check the rage and...

Even before Jamie Kennedy articulated them in Scream, every novice knew there were rules to surviving a horror movie. Never have sex. Don’t drink or do drugs. Never say you’ll be right back. And blah,...

Admittedly very rare for me, I suffered a genuine moment of real, sweaty-palm panic about two-thirds of the way through Alone. Now it was nothing to do with anything graphic offered up on screen - the film...

French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo splattered onto our screens back in 2007 with gory home invasion Inside . As Maury and Bustillo head to London’s Frightfest 2017 with their latest...

SPOILERS! A disparate group of bored Canadian teens while away the long, hot, ennui-laden Summer at a drug and booze-fuelled pool party, making out, playing Truth Or Dare? and giving their siblings the kind...

A social media hero due to the subversive social justice ‘hacktivism’ stunts he posts online, genius computer programmer Mason (Chris Mason) is obsessed with his project to map the human brain, convinced...

By Mike Fragnito A middle aged recluse psychologist who has stopped practicing years ago decides to take the case of Veronica, a young woman who's treatment was mysteriously interrupted by the Psychologists...

Oz (Chase Williamson) is going nowhere fast, content to drift through life.  Quiet and geeky, he keeps himself to himself, spends his days working in a store that fixes and refurbishes old video arcade games...

By Mike Fragnito Jason London, who previously appeared in Dazed & Confused and Out Cold (these titles coincidentaly describe his on screen charisma as a performer), stars as a retired LAPD officer and...

Is there anything more frustrating for a film fan than sitting through a movie that seems to have done all the hard work, only to leave you with that nagging feeling it should be so much better? That’s...