Stars: Mateo Ortega Casillas, Leonardo Cervantes, Carla Adell, Farid Escalante Correa, Norma Flores, Horacio F. Lazo, Noé Hernández, Juan Carlos Remolina | Written by Isaac Ezban, Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes | Directed by Isaac Ezban Mexican horror movies have always been about it seems but there’s never been enough of them in the mainstream to make them […]
Stars: Vero Maynez, Colin Huerta, Ruby Vallejo, Joe Swanberg, Jim Sikora | Written and Directed by Mickey Keating Written and directed by Mickey Keating (Offseason, Carnage Park, Psychopaths), this low budget chiller serves up an interesting take on the home invasion sub-genre. It’s also a textbook example of the slow build, and is arguably more […]
Stars: Zaen Haidar, Kia Dorsey, Sam Lukowski, Emily Bennett, Michael C. Williams, Vienna Maas | Written by Adam Cesare | Directed by Jill Gevargizian Director Jill Gevargizian follows her acclaimed 2020 debut The Stylist with Ghost Game, a low-budget haunted house thriller based on the real-life trend of ‘phrogging’, namely living in someone’s house, undetected. […]
Featuring: Chris Alexander, Bill Allen, Oscar Becher, David Blyth, Lizzie Borden, Luis Ceriz, Bradley Creanzo, Brian Damude | Directed by Ryan Levey Throughout its 75-minute run time, Ryan Levey’s documentary takes his audience on a whistle-stop tour of how horror movies have contributed to helping shape the cinematic landscape. Boutique: To Preserve and Collect is […]
Stars: Chelsea Edmunson, Cullen Douglas, Chad Michael Collins, Tony Todd, Tobin Bell | Written by Charles L. Bunce | Directed by Brian Hanson An alien fleet, known as the Travellers, has descended on Earth, occupying the airspace above every continent. The fate of humanity rests in the hands of an elite crew of scientists to […]
Stars: Jun Etoh, Mari Shirato, Kentarō Shimizu, Seiji Miyaguchi, Junko Miyashita, Yoshiro Aoki, Takashi Kanda | Written by Takuya Nishioka | Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda As FrightFest unveils its line-up each year, part of the fun is seeing what cult gems they have unearthed to show on a large screen. Amongst 2024’s line-up was Mermaid […]
Stars: Susan Gayle-Watts, Ranen Navat, AJ Bowen, Sean O’Bryan, Emily Goss, Rebekah Kennedy | Written and Directed by Pierre Tsigaridis From the off, Pierre Tsigaridis’ sophomore film, Traumatika, promises its audience an exploration of the various sub-types of childhood trauma, focusing on emotional, physical, and sexual abuse alongside a gratuitous amount of violence. The story […]
Stars: Jack Forsyth-Noble, Nicola Wright, Becca Hirani, Marshall Hawkes, Jennifer Lim, Sue Kelly, Karl Hughes, Alice Mukunku, Tom Ryan | Written and Directed by Sophie Osbourne Set in Yorkshire in 1898, The Monster Beneath Us begins by showing a man in distress. Residing in his country house, Lord James Abbington (Jack Forsyth-Noble) is worrying housekeeper […]
Stars: Gwyneth Evans, Jill Priest, Daniel Tuite, Jamie Martin | Written and Directed by Warren Dudley It’s a rare feat for a film to convincingly transport its audience back in time and believably sustain the world it builds, but that is exactly what Warren Dudley’s Fright achieves. A love letter to 1950s cinema, Fright is […]
Stars: Georgia Conlan, Dean Kilbey, Ian Laing, Jennifer K Preston, Angel-May Webb, Kate Spencer, Keith French, Charlotte Monkhouse, Alexander Harriss | Written by Georgia Conlan, Martin Hardwicke | Directed by Georgia Conlan After running away from home, twelve-year-old Charlotte (Georgia Conlan) finds herself outside the home of Roy (Dean Kilbey), an older man who invites […]
Stars: Andreas Pietschmann, Émilie Dequenne, Lisa Delamar, Lucas Ebel, Olivier Ho Hio Hen, Arben Bajraktaraj | Written by Alexandre Coquelle, Mathieu Oullion | Directed by Frédéric Jardin Opening with on-screen text, Survive sets up the terror to come by highlighting how the Earth has experienced five mass extinction events since it’s formation. The most ominous […]
Stars: Tom Kerrisk, Livvy Hill, Tony Murray | Written and Directed by John Farrelly Marketed as the first horror film ever made in the Irish language, An Taibhse (which translates to The Ghost) arrives from writer/director John Farrelly. Set in Ireland, 1852, the story sees Éamon (Tom Kerrisk) and his daughter, Máire (Livvy Hill), arriving […]
Stars: Sophie Mousel, Jules Werner, Timo Wagner, Luc Schiltz, Philippe Thelen, Marie Jung, Jean-Paul Maes | Written by Loïc Tanson, Frederic Zeimet | Directed by Loïc Tanson The Last Ashes is a competently directed, visually stunning, and superbly performed entry in this year’s FrightFest (2024). It is led by debutant director Loïc Tanson, who is at […]
Stars: Blu Hunt, Ben Smith-Petersen, John Karna, Katherine Hughes | Written by Elric Kane, Webb Wilcoxen | Directed by Elric Kane Directed by Elric Kane and co-written by Webb Wilcoxen, The Dead Thing is an erotic thriller with a supernatural twist. By turns haunting, chilling and achingly melancholy, it’s also a compelling drama about digital […]
Stars: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Chris Walley, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, Martin Furulund, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Javier Botet | Written by Bragi F. Schut, Zak Olkewicz | Directed by André Øvredal The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a chilling horror film that delivers a uniquely atmospheric take on the classic […]
Stars: Raul Castillo, Josh Brener, Melonie Diaz, Tony Cavalero | Written by Cutter Hodierne, John Hibey | Directed by Cutter Hodierne There’s no question that Steven Soderbergh knows a thing or two about heist movies, given that he directed all three of the Ocean’s Eleven movies. That’s presumably why “Steven Soderbergh Presents” appears on an […]
Stars: Johnny Whitworth, Nik Dodani, Dana Namrode, Laketa Caston | Written and Directed by Calvin Lee Reeder The A-Frame, directed by Calvin Lee Reeder (The Procedure, The Rambler), is a sci-fi horror film that follows Donna, a musician diagnosed with bone cancer, who is faced with the prospect of losing her arm. Desperate for a […]
Stars: Elijah Wood, Nell Fisher, Michael Smiley, Morgana O’Reilly | Written by Toby Harvard | Directed by Ant Timpson Director Ant Timpson reunites with Come to Daddy screenwriter Toby Harvard, star Elijah Wood and co-star Michael Smiley for the utterly charming wilderness adventure comedy, Bookworm, set in New Zealand. Technically it’s also a creature feature, […]
Stars: Steven Ogg, Daniel Doheny, Chelsea Clark, Marty Adams | Written by Brandon Cohen | Directed by Vivenio Caldinelli Directed by Vivenio Caldinelli, Canadian horror-comedy creature feature Scared Shitless is essentially a genetically engineered offshoot of 2006’s Slither, with a lot more toilet humour. It also provides character actor Steven Ogg (The Walking Dead) with […]
