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Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Come To Daddy

Simon Fitzjohn
August 22, 2019
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Elijah Wood sure knows how to pick ‘em. Now firmly ensconced in the horror fraternity thanks to career-changing turns in the likes of Maniac, Open Windows and even Cooties, Wood is back again for more in...
4.0

Frightfest Presents Review: Videoman

Simon Fitzjohn
February 15, 2019
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A love letter to 80s synth pop, the VHS generation and all things retro, Videoman is a real treat – by no means a horror film, but full of horror references and likely to delight fans of the genre. Put...
4.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Dark

David Watson
September 2, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
A monster haunts the woods of Devil’s Den. Pitiless and cruel, it hunts and kills those foolhardy or desperate enough to encroach on it’s territory, stalking them, slaughtering them, eating it’s...
2.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Golem

David Watson
September 2, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
As plague ravages the 17th century countryside of Lithuania, an isolated Jewish community is faced with destruction when the neighbouring gentile village holds them responsible for the epidemic and...
3.5

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Climax

David Watson
September 1, 2018
Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
On the eve of a tour of the USA, during a raucous post-rehearsal party in a disused school, a street-dance troupe find that the big bowl of sangria they’re drinking has been spiked with LSD and the...
3.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Black Site

David Watson
August 27, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Still haunted by the murder of her parents two decades before by a vengeful Elder God, Ren Reid (Samantha Schnitzler) is an agent at the Artemis Black Site, a secret underground military base where captured...
2.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Possum

David Watson
August 27, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Can you spy him deep within? Little Possum. Black as sin.” Lugging a mysterious leather holdall, disgraced children’s entertainer Philip (Sean Harris) returns to his grim, desolate Norfolk hometown and...
4.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Frankenstein’s Creature

Matthew Hammond
August 27, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein holds an almost untouchable place in the legacies of both literary history and pop culture iconography, with image of Karloff and his neck bolts firmly on the hypothetical horror...
5.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Chuck Steel – Night Of The Trampires

Matthew Hammond
August 27, 2018
Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Five years in the making, Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires has been eagerly awaited by Frightfest audiences, and I can happily say that not only does it exceed the great hopes and anticipation for a...
3.5

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Lifechanger

David Watson
August 27, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Waking up naked next to a desiccated corpse that bears more than a passing resemblance to herself seems nothing new for Emily (Elitsa Bako). Or at least it’s nothing new for Drew (voiced by Bill Oberst Jr.),...
2.5

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Witch In The Window

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August 27, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
By Dr Christopher Reynolds The scene that opens The Witch in the Window sets up both the premise and the themes of the film, with absent father Simon (Alex Draper) dropping in on his ex-wife Beverly (Arija...
2.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Heretiks

Matthew Hammond
August 26, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
British horror has a long and iconic relationship with religious and folk horror subgenre. From the seminal Unholy Trinity of Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man, through to Ben...
5.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Tigers Are Not Afraid

David Watson
August 26, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
n a world ruled by violence, only tigers are not afraid. But it’s hard to be a tiger when even the safety of your classroom is regularly violated by gunfire and violence. Cowering on the floor during a...
2.5

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: White Chamber

David Watson
August 26, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
It’s the near future and, in post-Brexit Britain, bloody civil war rages between the fascistic, totalitarian government and the equally brutal rebel militia, the poor and dispossessed trapped between...
3.5

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Dementia Part II

Guest Writer
August 25, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
By Dr Christopher Reynolds Dementia Part II is one of those odd curiosities that comes from the modern equivalent of the underground horror scene. It has almost no mainstream appeal, and indeed, at only an...
3.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Boar

Matthew Hammond
August 24, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Australian cinema through the decades, arguably forming within the explosion of exploitation and art in the 1970’s, has been a consistent cradle for the horror genre in a suitably wild spectrum of guises....
5.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: Piercing

David Watson
August 24, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Tormented by the urge to murder his newborn baby, we first meet family man and closet psychopath Reed (Christopher Abbott) standing over the cot and contemplating driving an ice pick into the child’s...
2.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Cleaning Lady

Guest Writer
August 24, 2018
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
By Dr Chris Reynolds The Cleaning Lady takes its cue from a number of films built around the prospect of an interloper gradually worming their way into the protagonist’s life and then disrupting it. Usually...
4.0

Arrow Video Frightfest Review: The Ranger

Simon Fitzjohn
August 23, 2018
Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Jenn Wexler’s ballsy, brutal, energetic retro slasher The Ranger got the Frightfest party off to a flyer – tapping in to the current 80s genre craze to give the audience a welcome jolt of punk-infused...
3.0

Horror Channel Frightfest Review: Eat Locals

Simon Fitzjohn
August 31, 2017
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
Riffing on everything from the likes of Dog Soldiers and Cockneys vs Zombies (and many more), Eat Locals is a scattergun affair that just about succeeds due to sheer verve. The directorial debut of Jason...
3.0

Horror Channel Frightfest Review: The Terror Of Hallow’s Eve

Simon Fitzjohn
August 29, 2017
Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews
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An 80s throwback that never quite makes enough of its premise, The Terror Of Hallow’s Eve is certainly a watchable affair. High on style and with a pleasant focus on practical effects, it’s a pretty...
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