Arrow Video Frightfest unveils 2022 London line-up Simon Fitzjohn July 29, 2022 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s most popular horror and fantasy film festival, is back at London’s Cineworld Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema from Thursday August 25 – Monday 29 August...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Halloween Review: Amulet Simon Fitzjohn October 31, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
2.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Halloween Review: Miracle Valley Simon Fitzjohn October 31, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Halloween Review: Last Survivors Simon Fitzjohn October 30, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Halloween Review: Barbarians Simon Fitzjohn October 29, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
Frightfest unveil Halloween line-up Simon Fitzjohn October 3, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews 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,...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: When The Screaming Starts Simon Fitzjohn September 2, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
Arrow Video Frightfest: Review Round-Up Simon Fitzjohn August 31, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Sadness David Watson August 30, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews *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...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Post Mortem David Watson August 30, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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,...
4.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Greywood’s Plot Simon Fitzjohn August 30, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Killer Concept Simon Fitzjohn August 30, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Antidote David Watson August 30, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Retaliators Simon Fitzjohn August 30, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Isolation Guest Writer August 30, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: No Man Of God Simon Fitzjohn August 29, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Forgiveness Simon Fitzjohn August 29, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: As In Heaven, So On Earth David Watson August 29, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Bring Out The Fear Simon Fitzjohn August 28, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
4.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Offseason Simon Fitzjohn August 28, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews “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...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Last Rite Simon Fitzjohn August 28, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...