film review
Bait [Frightfest 2015 Review]
A few years back, an Australian horror movie called Bait pitched a group of plucky survivors against a tide of hungry sharks, displaced in a flooded supermarket after a devastating tsunami. It wasn...
Frankenstein [Frightfest 2015 Review]
Not to be confused with the upcoming, Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy starring, Victor Frankenstein, Bernard “Candyman” Rose’s Frankenstein is the dreamy, gory, and strangely movin...
Hellions [Frightfest 2015 Review]
Decent Halloween-themed movies are hard to come by. Aside from the classics like Halloween, Trick ‘r’ Treat and Hocus Pocus, there isn’t much in the way of modern holiday-themed f...
Frightfest 2015 Review: Landmine Goes Click
Introducing his movie Landmine Goes Click, to a curious Frightfest audience, Georgian writer-director Levan Bakhia offered just one sentence as a precursor for what we were about to watch: “A gu...
Frightfest 2015 Review: The Diabolical
Following hot on the heels of this year’s decent, but ultimately pointless, Poltergeist remake comes The Diabolical, a paranormal thriller in the same vein as that most famous of paranormal thri...
Stung is Genuinely Frightening [Frightfest 2015 Review]
It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a decent (read: scary) creature feature, never mind one that isn’t reliant on Z-list celebrity cameos or purposefully terrible VFX to carry it...
Frightfest 2015 Review: Cherry Tree
The curse of the Irish horror movie continues with Cherry Tree, a movie that was demonstrably filmed on the Emerald Isle but that inexplicably relocates the action to the UK. And almost everybody̵...
Tales Of Halloween [Frightfest 2015 Review]
Anthologies have enjoyed a bit of a revival as of late, from the V/H/S series to The ABCs Of Death. Into the fray is thrust Tales Of Halloween, a collection of ten shorts about the titular holiday tha...
The Gift Is The Scariest Surprise Of The Summer [Review]
The trailer for The Gift either completely sucks, or is the cleverest marketing strategy for a horror movie in years. It presents this, the debut feature from writer-director-star Joel Edgerton, as no...