4.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It Matthew Hammond August 28, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews 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...
5.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Dawn Breaks Behind The Eyes David Watson August 28, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Woozy. Dreamlike. Hallucinatory. Psychedelic. Phantasmagoria. Fever dream. These are all words you can expect to find peppering reviews of Kevin Kopacka’s lush, ravishing Dawn Breaks Behind The Eyes...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Exorcism Of Carmen Farias Simon Fitzjohn August 27, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Offering up some Mexican chills for the Frightfest genre smorgasbord, The Exorcism Of Carmen Farias is one of those films to sit firmly in the ‘good but not great’ category. There is nothing...
2.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Crabs! Simon Fitzjohn August 26, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Frightfest has always liked to roll out a comedic creature feature for the late night audience – Zombeavers anyone? So it makes perfect sense that writer/director Pierce Berolzheimer’s Crabs! is...
2.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Red Snow Guest Writer August 26, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews By Alan Graham This doesn’t feel like a film made in 2021. Not really. Instead it feels like a TV pilot from 1990 has somehow been flung forward to modern times, an attempt by some coked-up...
3.5 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Night Drive Simon Fitzjohn August 26, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews A fast-paced thriller that throws up more than its fair share of surprises, Night Drive is another of those Frightfest offerings this year that, arguably, the less you know going in the better. Part...
3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Motherly Simon Fitzjohn August 26, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Throwing up something of a new slant on the home invasion chiller, Motherly actually appears to be being dubbed an ‘isolation thriller’. And it’s easy to see why, as the Canadian...
Arrow Video Frightfest Interview: Director Leroy Kincaide Simon Fitzjohn August 21, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Interviews, London, London Interviews Ahead of the World premiere screening of his debut feature film THE LAST RITE, writer / director Leroy Kincaide talks about his new movie, the enlightenment of being an undertaker, his personal experiences...
Frightfest 2021 Preview: Coming Home In The Dark Simon Fitzjohn August 21, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews I'll be honest, any film billed as 'unbearably tense and ruthlessly bleak' automatically gets my attention, which is why New Zealand offering Coming Home In The Dark has been on my radar since being announced...
Frightfest 2021 Preview: Killer Concept Simon Fitzjohn August 19, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews We found ourselves quite enjoying Driven at last year's Frightfest, which came courtesy of director and writer team Glenn Payne and Casey Dillard. Well, the good news is the duo are back with their latest...
Frightfest 2021 Preview: Knocking Simon Fitzjohn August 18, 2021 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews It cannot have been that often that Frightfest welcomes a Cannes Festival award-winner to the London genre shindig, but in the shape of Knocking director Frida Kempff they have just that. A winner for her...
Frightfest 2021 Preview: The Exorcism Of Carmen Farias Simon Fitzjohn August 10, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews One of the things I most love about Arrow Video Frightfest is when the gang scour the globe for some fresh blood from overseas - and I'm delighted to say they've done it again this year. High on my list of...
Frightfest announces second wave of 2021 films Simon Fitzjohn July 22, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews It’s Full Scream ahead as Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 announces its second wave of hugely anticipated Discovery Screen and First Blood titles - a summer collection of provocative, edgy and...
Frightfest resurrects New Blood quest Simon Fitzjohn July 12, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London As Arrow Video FrightFest stalks the dark recesses of the big screen again, the search resumes for new writers in the horror genre through its New Blood initiative. New Blood reunites FrightFest with Giles...
Arrow Video Frightfest unveil first summer 2021 selections Simon Fitzjohn July 8, 2021 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest horror and fantasy film festival, is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from Thurs August 26 – Monday 30 August, 2021 for five days of the very best...
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...
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...
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...
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...