4.0 Horror Channel Frightfest review: The ReZort David Watson August 27, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews “Every apocalypse deserves an afterparty!” The apocalypse has come and gone and humanity has won the war against the undead. But if you still want to indulge your inner Rick Grimes, the ReZort is the...
4.0 Horror Channel Frightfest review: The Similars Matthew Hammond August 26, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews On a rainy night in an isolated bus station, eight strangers are brought together and undergo an experience that will not only change their lives, but the very nature of mankind’s existence forever as one by...
4.0 Horror Channel Frightfest review: Francesca Matthew Hammond August 26, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Francesca is, in the purest and simplest of terms, absolute giallo. It captures in totality the essence of a genre that exists still as one of the most distinctive and cultishly adored sub genres in horror...
2.0 Frightfest Halloween Review: Momentum David Watson October 26, 2015 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews When a high-tech bank robbery (in Cape Town, South Africa, of all places!) goes wrong and her identity is accidentally revealed, super-thief Alex (Olga Kurylenko) is forced to kill one of her trigger-happy...
2.0 Frightfest London review: Another Me Simon Fitzjohn September 4, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews An interesting concept that goes very wrong in terms of execution, Another Me is a film bursting with ideas, but failing to deliver on many of them. A teenage riff on the likes of little-seen 70s Roger...
4.0 Frightfest London review: Night Fare Simon Fitzjohn September 2, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews An incredibly stylish outing, Julien Seri’s Night Fare proved a pulse-pounding, kinetic thriller that had the Frightfest crowd lapping up its neon-drenched violence. What appears at first a simple tale,...
3.5 Frightfest London review: Rabid Dogs Sophie Elizabeth September 1, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Based on Mario Bava's original 1974 classic and following a poorly planned bank heist, three French criminals go on the run, taking a young woman, a father and his sick child hostage. Now a deadly road trip,...
3.5 Frightfest London review: Scherzo Diabolico Matthew Hammond September 1, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews From the director of Late Phases and Here Comes The Devil, Scherzo Diabolico is a highly charged and tense affair that plays out as a dark modern fable about greed, power and revenge, that might just be Adrian...
1.5 Frightfest London review: Inner Demon Matthew Hammond September 1, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews In recent years, Australia has proved to be a fertile ground of dynamic and intriguing horror cinema, perhaps best exemplified by Jennifer Kent’s outstanding The Babadook. Inner Demon, the work of another...
2.0 Frightfest London review: Bite Emily Stockham August 31, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Now, it might just be me, but when I hear about an insect-based horror film , I immediately think, ‘The Fly’, namely Cronenberg’s 1986 horror / sci-fi romance remake about a scientist who becomes a weird...
3.0 Frightfest London review: Hostile Ian White August 31, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Meredith (Shelley Ward) is an attractive single woman, not yet fifty, who has recently adopted two teenage daughters – Anna and Emilie (Luna Belan and Julie Venturelli). After a seemingly happy beginning, it...
3.0 Frightfest London review: Suspension Cat Johnson August 31, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews With equal measures of gruesome murders and creative visual effects, Suspension is surprisingly hard to turn away from. Switching from black and white to colour, in a way that weirdly reminds me of Kill...
3.5 Frightfest London review: Awaiting Simon Fitzjohn August 31, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Neatly working its way into that file labelled ‘much better than you expect’, Awaiting is a dark, twisted, brutal little tale. A fresh slant on the backwoods tropes so prevalent in a lot of modern genre...
4.0 Frightfest London review: Banjo Simon Fitzjohn August 31, 2015 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews As any genre fan will be able to tell you, the horror-comedy hybrid is a dangerous path to tread. Often films either dish up the laughs but fail to provide the grue, or serve up lashings of horror but prove...
5.0 Frightfest London review: The Lesson David Watson August 31, 2015 Editor's Choice, Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Who’d be a teacher, eh? I mean, sure, there’s the great holidays. And the pay’s not to be sniffed at. And the easy access to impressionable teenagers (well, for some…). And when you get...
1.0 Frightfest London review: Some Kind Of Hate Emily Stockham August 30, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Supernatural slasher ‘Some Kind of Hate’, directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer, stars Ronen Rubinstein as Lincoln - the perpetual teenage victim. Similarly to Deathgasm – but nowhere near as awesome – we...
5.0 Frightfest London review: Deathgasm Emily Stockham August 30, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Just when I think I’ve seen just about every way you can kill a soul-seeking flesh eating zombie, Deathgasm comes along and splatters brains with a vibrating rampant rabbit in each temple of the undead’s...
1.0 Frightfest London review: Most Likely To Die Ian White August 30, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews I didn’t have to watch this movie. I could have written the review of 'Most Likely to Die' (and predicted who the killer was) after reading the cast list and the synopsis but I didn't because that...
2.5 Frightfest London review: Shut In Emily Stockham August 30, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Anna the agoraphobic is our protagonist in American drama-horror, Shut In, directed by Adam Schindler. However, this fact about our leading lady made me a little uncomfortable from the outset, although I’ll...
1.0 Frightfest London review: Sun Choke Cat Johnson August 29, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews I imagine this film is a complete 'indie' dream for those who enjoy unanswered questions, vague storylines and dull scripts. The theory is: Janie (Sarah Hagan) is recovering from a recent violent psychotic...
3.0 Frightfest London review: Estranged Sophie Elizabeth August 29, 2015 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Wheelchair-bound and suffering from amnesia, January (Amy Manson) is forced to return to her childhood home following a motorcycling accident abroad. Having been away for six years and unable to remember any...