4.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Relic Simon Fitzjohn October 24, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Dementia is a horrible disease. Often robbing people of their dignity, seeing memories of happy times simply fade away, straining familial relationships to breaking point and leaving relatives backed into...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Heckle Simon Fitzjohn October 24, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Heckling. It’s a staple of the stand-up comedy circuit – a launchpad for those of an acerbic wit to fire back at the audience. In fact, you could argue many successful comics have made as much a name...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Concrete Plans Simon Fitzjohn October 23, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews In this day and age, everyone needs to get paid. So, if you try and stiff someone (or in this case, a group of people) out of their hard-earned cash, prepare to accept the consequences. That is the...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Tailgate Rhian Morgan October 23, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews How many times have you been triggered by an entitled assclown while driving and briefly wished savage revenge? In fact, the scenario is so familiar that it’s become a staple for filmmakers, in greats...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Sinners Emily Stockham October 22, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews With an opening scene reminiscent of late nineties candy-hued cult classic ‘Jawbreaker’, which sees a bitchy high school trio led by the enigmatic Rose McGowan throw their BFF into the trunk of a car for...
Arrow Video Frightfest Interview: The Stylist star Najarra Townsend Simon Fitzjohn October 20, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Interviews, London, London Interviews “I find that good genre films so often have the most intense complicated characters that are the most fun to take on” Ahead of the UK premiere of Jill Gevarguzian’s THE STYLIST, lead actress Najarra...
Arrow Video Frightfest Interview: Neil Marshall Simon Fitzjohn October 8, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Interviews, London, London Previews Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest film THE RECKONING, Neil Marshall talks about the desire for creative freedom, putting leading lady Charlotte Kirk through hell, his love for FrightFest...
Arrow Video Frightfest move October event online Simon Fitzjohn September 23, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews Arrow Video FrightFest will go virtual for the second time in 2020, having taken the difficult decision to cancel its planned physical event at the Cineworld, Leicester Square. due to continuing COVID...
Arrow Video Frightfest unveil October extravaganza Simon Fitzjohn September 17, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews Following the cancellation of the traditional 5-day August event, Arrow Video FrightFest is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from October 22 – 25, 2020, with a packed programme of thirty-four new...
Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula to launch October Frightfest Simon Fitzjohn September 10, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London Four years after TRAIN TO BUSAN was voted the most popular FrightFest Closing Night film ever, comes the hotly anticipated stand-alone sequel, TRAIN TO BUSAN PRESENTS: PENINSULA, which will open this...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: The Swerve Anya Stanley September 3, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Some of the most relevant thrillers, horror films, and dark dramas of the current age are the most quiet in their interrogation of the things our society holds dear. The Clovehitch Killer barely made a splash...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Blinders Simon Fitzjohn August 31, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Getting its UK premiere at Frightfest, Blinders is one of those films that will probably just miss the 'best of' lists, but delivers on giving you a good time while you are watching it. Directed (and...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: AV – The Hunt David Watson August 31, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews A young couple meet for a passionate tryst in a dingy shagpad in a small rural town , a few stolen moments, but both are edgy, flinching at every random sound. When she hits the shower, there’s a violent...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Two Heads Creek Simon Fitzjohn August 31, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Adding to the list of pleasant surprises from this year’s Frightfest, Two Heads Creek sets out to give its audience a wild ride – and does so. The film follows the journey of Norman (Jordan Waller),...
2.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Aquaslash Matthew Hammond August 30, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Set in a dated waterpark, Aquaslash follows a weekend of debauchery and drama for a group of high school graduates and staff members that takes a slide into murderous mayhem as a killer strikes with a...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: A Ghost Waits David Watson August 30, 2020 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Already something of a hit at FrightFest Glasgow, a lonely oddjob man meets a quite literally kindred spirit in A Ghost Waits, a sweet, whimsically affecting horror rom-com from director Adam Stovall. When...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Clapboard Jungle Matthew Hammond August 30, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Clapboard Jungle follows aspiring director and screenwriter Justin McConnell over five years as he aims to finally breakout in the independent film industry after years of zero budget films and dreams...
4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Dark Place David Watson August 30, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Australia! The land down under. Where the native floral and fauna wants to kill you, eat you and root you, likely in that order. Where just going outdoors in the daytime gives you cancer and getting to the...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: Hail To The Deadites Anya Stanley August 30, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews “Everything you see in the next 80 minutes was created by Evil Dead fans (Deadites).” Such is the opening quote of writer-director Steve Villenueve’s documentary Hail To The Deadites. The film...
2.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: They’re Outside Simon Fitzjohn August 29, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Folk horror has had a pretty healthy tradition in British genre cinema, whether it be the ‘classics’ like Blood On Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man, through to lesser-known fare such as Robin...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Digital Review: The Horror Crowd David Watson August 29, 2020 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews ***SPOILER! Please remember as you read this that I'm fundamentally a bitter, mean-spirited turnip who's secretly devastated he'll never know love...*** I have a good friend who perplexes...