by Ben Bussey. UK readers: hopefully you’re up to speed on all the horror film fests coming your way this season (if not, click here). Now there’s another date to add to your diary: 29th October, on which FrightFest’s annual Halloween all-nighter will be taking place at the Vue West End in London’s Leicester Square. [...]

by Stephanie Scaife Traditionally the August bank holiday weekend is synonymous with the last hurrah of summer, people insist on BBQing come rain or shine and enjoy the three day weekend relaxing and hoping for sunshine. For me however it means one thing… FrightFest, the UK’s best known and largest genre film festival.  I’ve been [...]

Deadheads (2011) Directed by: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce Starring: Michael McKiddy, Ross Kidder, Thomas Galasso, Benjamin Webster Review by: Ben Bussey When American twentysomething Mike (McKiddy) wakes up one day to find himself in some kind of strange incubation chamber, he doesn’t know what the hell’s going on. Stepping out into the world, he [...]

The Woman (2011) Directed by: Lucky McKee Starring: Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers, Angela Bettis Review by: Ben Bussey Within a suprisingly short distance of one another exist what would appear to be two polar opposites of human life. The Cleek family live an affluent and comfortable existence in their beautiful ranch home, whilst in the [...]

Chillerama (2011) Directed by: Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan, Adam Green, Joe Lynch Starring: Joel David Moore, Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Richard Riehle Review by: Ben Bussey The drive-in is about to close down. The locals pile in by the car load, and owner Cecil Kaufman (Riehle) plans to give them a final night to remember, [...]

The Glass Man (2011) Directed by: Christian Solimeno Starring: Andy Nyman, James Cosmo, Neve Campbell, Christian Solimeno Review by: Ben Bussey At a glance, Martin (Nyman) would appear to be the man who has everything. He wears fine bespoke suits and an expensive watch, drives a top-of-the-range car, and lives in a well-furnished town house with [...]

by Marc Patterson A Lonely Place to Die appears from the outset to be a backwoods survival flick that has tapped into a rare vein of originality. Impressive considering so few filmmakers seem capable of breaking out of that trap. (See the recent French flick High Lane anyone?) A Lonely Place to Die avoids the [...]

by Ben Bussey You know, “hella good” as in “hell”… because, like, there’s a demon in the picture, and… oh piss off, I’m typing this at 8.30 in the morning. So, those good old British gents from FrightFest just released the official poster art for the 2011 event, from artist Graham Humphreys, who describes his [...]

by Ben Bussey UK horror fans, start getting excited. The August Bank Holiday weekend is a little over two months away, and that means we don’t have too much longer to wait until the biggest horror event in Britain. From Thursday the 25th to Monday the 29th of August, FrightFest takes over the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square, [...]

by Ben Bussey Now this is a potentially very nice turn of events for horror in the UK. FrightFest have teamed up with Wild Bunch to launch FrightFest Features, a new distribution label in association with eOne. We can safely assume rom-coms are not high on the agenda. Their first release will be Shadow, from [...]

by Ben Bussey Us Brits don’t half love Tobe Hooper. Last August he was named the inaugural Total Icon at FrightFest 2010; now the Horror Channel have chosen to dedicate two nights of programming to the man. And why not? Tobe Hooper: Director’s Night Special Edition will air over Thursday 31st March and Friday 1st [...]

by Marc Patterson Thanks to our friends over at Film4 FrightFest, we just got the full line-up for this years Glasgow Film Fest, along with showing times and dates. There’s a lot of info to digest, so I’m going to dispense with the preliminaries and drop some knowledge on you all! Yes, we’ll be covering [...]

by Ben Bussey So Frightfest 2010 is over. It was my first time at the festival, and all things considered it was a rewarding, enjoyable five days, from Hatchet 2 at 6.30pm on Thursday, all the way through to The Last Exorcism at 9.30 on Monday… except, alas, I wasn’t there for that one. Indeed, [...]

The Dead (2009) Directed by: Jonathan & Howard J Ford Starring: Rob Freeman, Prince David Oseia Review by: Ben Bussey Africa. The dead are rising from their graves with a hunger for the flesh of the living. As a village falls under an attack, a young boy manages to escape on a Jeep. Meanwhile, an [...]

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape (2010) Director: Jake West Starring: Martin Barker, Graham Bright, Peter Kruger, Julian Petley Review by: Ben Bussey They called them the Video Nasties. They were the new wave of horror films that took things to a whole new level of violence and viscera: rape, mutilation, disembowelment and cannibalism [...]

The Tortured (2010) Directed by: Robert Lieberman Starring: Erica Christensen, Jesse Metcalfe, Bill Moseley Review by: Ben Bussey Craig and Elise are a handsome, well-to-do professional couple with a comfortable married life and a beloved six year old child, who find themselves faced with the situation that every parent lives in fear of: their son [...]

I Spit On Your Grave (2010) Directed by: Steven R. Monroe Starring: Sarah Butler, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Rodney Eastman Review by: Ben Bussey Jennifer Hills is about to start writing her second novel. She drives up to an idyllic lakeside cabin in the heart of a beautiful wood, hoping for nothing more than a [...]