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Another film getting the 'world premiere' treatment at Frightfest is monster/revenge mash-up I Am Lisa. Helmed by Patrick Rea, who has a crazy amount of genre material on his resume (69 directorial gigs if...

Heading to Arrow Video Frightfest Digital for its UK premiere after picking up plenty of plaudits at, among others, the Brooklyn Horror Festival, The Swerve looks set to be one of the memorable offerings up...

The films may be short, but there is no shortage of scares as Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 showcases the best new short films from the UK and around the world, with six countries representing three continents....

Fancy a world premiere with your Frightfest package? And possibly a British film to boot? If so, Playhouse may be your thing - a film that not only ticks the above boxes, but also marks the feature debut...

Genre favourite Brea Grant moves back behind the camera for just her second feature - and her first full-length outing since 2013's Best Friends Forever - with organ trafficking chiller 12 Hour...

Fancy a bit of Dutch horror with your Frightfest smorgasbord this summer? If so, then you are in luck, courtesy of director Ivo van Aart's The Columnist, which looks to push the boundary of internet...

“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...

The UK’s most popular horror and fantasy film festival celebrates its 21st bloody year with a special Digital edition, showcasing twenty-five films, from Thurs 27th August to Mon 31st August, including...

Those devilish chaps at Frightfest certainly know how to keep us horror fans on our toes. No sooner had the agony of the (totally understandable) cancellation of August's five-day London genre shindig sent...

Due to the continuing COVID-19 restrictions on social distancing, Arrow FrightFest’s traditional five day event in August has been regretfully put on hold. Instead, the organisers are planning to expand...

We've barely caught our breath from the summer spectacular and those devilish Frightfest chaps are back to unleash their Halloween offering. We'll preview each of these films nearer the all-dayer itself,...

True story - there have been a handful of occasions in my movie-watching/writing life where I have straight up felt special. Getting to spend the weekend with cult exploitation director Pete Walker was one...

Timid, mousy designer Rose (Laura Vandervoort) dreams of taking the glamourous fashion world by storm but in an arena where looks and confidence seems to count for more than talent, Rose is lacking the...

Us Brits have got quite a track record when it comes to anthology horror, whether it be vintage classics like 40s favourite Dead Of Night, or the 70s Amicus efforts such as Asylum. Last year’s film...

Jonathan is a lonely twenty-something stuck in a dead end job, spending most of his life away from work alone and working through self-help guides for inspiration. One night, he takes a leap and dials a...

Dezzy is a supremely talented painter confronting the most devastating affliction that can strike an artist: an artistic drought. Struggling to shake the block, she embarks on an odyssey of extremity on...

Every year at FrightFest there’s a film I rave about, that I get evangelical about, that I breathlessly run up to people and grab them and shake them and tell them “You HAVE to see this...

Escaping a top-secret military base, gutsy soldier Maria and a superhuman test subject TS-347 find themselves fleeing in a zombie apocalypse. Their high action world collides with that of Pedro, a regular guy...

Thirty-something Lou Farnt (Katie Brayben), is a self-help addict floating through life in the stale seaside town in which she grew up. Controlled by her overbearing mother and stuck in a dead-end corner shop...

When notoriously reclusive composer Richard Marlowe (Rutger Hauer) commits operatic suicide, dousing himself in petrol and burning himself alive, his estranged daughter Rose (Freya Tingley) inherits his...

Arguably one of the sickest, most depraved, downright disturbing and, crucially, truly feminist horror movies of recent years, Lucky McKee’s 2011 Jack Ketchum-authored The Woman saw Pollyanna McIntosh’s...