1.5 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Accountable David Watson August 27, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Angry and directionless, stuck in a mundane call centre job and drinking like he’s Oliver Reed on a Berlin stag do, Warren (Oliver Towner) is a man adrift, barely able to keep in check the rage and...
3.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Killing Ground David Watson August 27, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Even before Jamie Kennedy articulated them in Scream, every novice knew there were rules to surviving a horror movie. Never have sex. Don’t drink or do drugs. Never say you’ll be right back. And blah,...
2.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Alone Simon Fitzjohn August 26, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Admittedly very rare for me, I suffered a genuine moment of real, sweaty-palm panic about two-thirds of the way through Alone. Now it was nothing to do with anything graphic offered up on screen - the film...
2.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Inside Emily Stockham August 26, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo splattered onto our screens back in 2007 with gory home invasion Inside . As Maury and Bustillo head to London’s Frightfest 2017 with their latest...
4.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Game Of Death David Watson August 26, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews SPOILERS! A disparate group of bored Canadian teens while away the long, hot, ennui-laden Summer at a drug and booze-fuelled pool party, making out, playing Truth Or Dare? and giving their siblings the kind...
3.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Mindhack David Watson August 26, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews A social media hero due to the subversive social justice ‘hacktivism’ stunts he posts online, genius computer programmer Mason (Chris Mason) is obsessed with his project to map the human brain, convinced...
3.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Veronica Guest Writer August 25, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews By Mike Fragnito A middle aged recluse psychologist who has stopped practicing years ago decides to take the case of Veronica, a young woman who's treatment was mysteriously interrupted by the Psychologists...
4.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Sequence Break David Watson August 25, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Oz (Chase Williamson) is going nowhere fast, content to drift through life. Quiet and geeky, he keeps himself to himself, spends his days working in a store that fixes and refurbishes old video arcade games...
1.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Nightworld Guest Writer August 25, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews By Mike Fragnito Jason London, who previously appeared in Dazed & Confused and Out Cold (these titles coincidentaly describe his on screen charisma as a performer), stars as a retired LAPD officer and...
3.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Radius Simon Fitzjohn August 25, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Is there anything more frustrating for a film fan than sitting through a movie that seems to have done all the hard work, only to leave you with that nagging feeling it should be so much better? That’s...
3.5 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Cult Of Chucky Simon Fitzjohn August 25, 2017 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London Reviews Chucky returns (again) in the seventh instalment in the ever-expanding killer doll franchise, kicking off this year’s Frightfest with a bang – and a powerdrill, a blowtorch (you get the...
3.0 Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Diane David Watson August 24, 2017 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London Reviews Alone and isolated, disabled war veteran Steve (Jason Alan Smith) lives a relatively solitary existence. Injured in Afghanistan and obviously suffering from PTSD, he’s become a virtual recluse, getting by on...
Horror Channel Frightfest interview: Barbara Crampton Simon Fitzjohn August 14, 2017 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Interviews, London Interviews There's no doubt that genre legend Barbara Crampton is a firm favourite of the Frightfest community - after all, not only has she had a slew of films screen at the festival over the last few years, she's also...
Horror Channel Frightfest preview: Redwood Simon Fitzjohn August 12, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London Previews World premieres can never be a bad thing, and one of the more interesting selections on offer at this year's shindig is director Tom Paton's Redwood. Hopefully a twist on the camping horror tales so loved...
Horror Channel Frightfest preview: Replace Simon Fitzjohn August 7, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London Previews To be honest, Replace had me interested the second the words 'written by Richard Stanley' popped up atop the press release. But the film looks set to have a lot more to offer than just that, as the trailer...
Horror Channel Frightfest unveils short film showcase Simon Fitzjohn August 3, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews With twenty-six films over three days, including ten World, four European and seven UK premieres, Horror Channel FrightFest’s short film showcase unleashes this year’s eclectic mix of the bold, brave,...
Horror Channel Frightfest interview: Boots On The Ground director Louis Melville Simon Fitzjohn August 2, 2017 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, Interviews, London Interviews One of the more intriguing offerings at this year's Frightfest is director Louis Melville's Boots On The Ground, a fresh take on the found footage genre that sees a bunch of British soldiers get far more than...
Horror Channel Frightfest preview: Jackals Simon Fitzjohn August 1, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London Previews A bonus addition to the festival line-up, Jackals looks set to make a great genre shindig even better. Put together by director Kevin Greutert, whose back catalogue is impressive stuff - he's directed the...
Horror Channel Frightfest preview: 68 Kill Simon Fitzjohn July 29, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London Previews Take a look at the trailer for 68 Kill (which we've kindly included below) and I think you'd be hard-pressed to squeeze it into the 'horror' genre - violent, darkly comic entertainment maybe, but 'horror' -...
Horror Channel Frightfest preview: Ruin Me Simon Fitzjohn July 28, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Previews 'What happens when the ride really breaks.......?' Looking as though it could be a whole load of bloody fun, director Preston DeFrancis' Ruin Me cruises into London for its world premiere no...
Horror Channel Frightfest interview: Accountable director Matthew Heaven Simon Fitzjohn July 28, 2017 Film4 Frightfest, Interviews, London Interviews Matthew Heaven's £10,000 debut feature Accountable look set to be one of the more intriguing offering at this year's genre festival. A tale of anger, frustration and social anxiety, the film stars Oliver...