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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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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....

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...

***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...

After years of terrifying audiences, enfant terrible, horror playwright Jack Travis (William Holstead) buys a haunted Scottish castle and moves in with his pouty emo teenage daughter Bee (Grace...

Just how much do you trust your partner? How confident are you that, if forced to live together 24/7 under observation, your relationship could continue to flourish? And, last but not least, just how much...

Social media trolls and so-called ‘cancel culture’ seem to have inserted themselves seamlessly into our everyday lives ever since the advent of platforms that are designed to give us dopamine...

Part Battle Royale, part Saw and part college frat film, Triggered plays out as bloody good fun. It is not perfect (I’ll explain later) and it obviously leans heavily on the films noted above, but...

Taking the well-worn ‘rape-revenge’ model and giving it a new set of clothes, I Am Lisa delivers something a little bit different. It’s not entirely successful – the film...

One of our pleasant surprises from Frightfest is Triggered - the South African 'friends wake up in the woods to find themselves strapped into suicide vests' tension-fest. Part of the success of the film...