Interviews

By Simon Fitzjohn & David Watson Writer/director Kate Shenton has been a favourite at Movie Ramblings towers for some time now - from her eye-catching short films such as Gimp and Bon Appetit, to...

One of the films that really caught our eye in the Frightfest line-up was Swedish entry Videoman, a throwback of sorts that leans on the current 80s fad to good effect. Now, my liking for the film may have...

Jenn Wexler's 80s slasher homage The Ranger looks set to rock Frightfest as the opening film, so what better way to get excited than to chat to the director herself, firing off questions about the film, her...

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...

Available this week on download, with the DVD/Blu-Ray set to follow suit shortly, Ghost In The Shell sees Scarlett Johansson take on the iconic manga role, bringing it to the big (and now small) screen in a...

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...

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...

Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Patty Jenkins and more have their say

Raquel Welch may have grabbed a lot of the headlines (and column inches) that followed the release of Hammer's One Million Years BC, but she was far from the only eye-catching female actress on show. For...

Jamie Bernadette is a very busy lady. Last year she took the starring role – opposite Camille Keaton - in Meir Zarchi’s eagerly awaited I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà Vu, and since then she’s wrapped...

One of the performances that made waves at last year's Frightfest was Angela Dixon's bonecrunching turn in director Howard J Ford's action thriller Never Let Go. Now heading to DVD, Dixon stars as Lisa...

Actress Alex Essoe has made quite a name for herself in horror circles over recent years, with her dazzling lead role in 2014's Starry Eyes followed up with the likes of crowdpleasers Tales of Halloween and...

One of the films that caught us (pleasantly) by surprise at London's recent Frightfest was creature feature Blood Hunters - you can read our review here http://bit.ly/2bClmNJ So much so in fact that we had...

Back in June at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, David Watson caught up with an old film school buddy (who’s far more successful the bastard) for a pint, writer/director Steve Barker, on the eve of...

With festive slasher ‘Red Christmas’ debuting for European audiences at Horror Channel’s Frightfest later this month, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to catch up with director Craig Anderson...

We talk to Jon Ford, who, alongside his brother Howard, took the zombie genre to new global heights with The Dead & The Dead 2. Here Jon talks about his first solo feature film, OFFENSIVE, a dark, violent...

We chat to the director and star of this week's A Patch Of Fog

  With their first film The Violators due in UK cinemas, writer/director Helen Walsh and actress Lauren McQueen sit down with Movie Ramblings’ David Watson to discuss transgressive teenage...

Having debuted at Frightfest back in 2014, urban supernatural horror film The Forgotten finally makes it to download/DVD this month. The film marks the debut feature of writer-director Oliver Frampton, who...

With Women in Horror month still in full swing, it made perfect sense to check in and grab a chat with another of the up-and-coming talents on the British horror scene, Kate Shenton. Having just returned...

Opening this week across the UK, Movie Ramblings' David Watson caught up with director Karen Guthrie to talk about her bittersweet, multi-award winning documentary The Closer We Get.   DW: Really loved...