frightfest 2017
Frightfest 2017 Review: It Stains The Sands Red
Almost fifty years after the release of Romero’s seminal Night Of The Living Dead, the world is still hopelessly devoted to zombies. The popularity of the snooze-inducing The Walking Dead, and i...
Frightfest 2017 Review: Death Note
Adam Wingard, the horror hero behind the likes of You’re Next, The Guest and Blair Witch, has taken quite a battering over his adaptation of super-popular manga Death Note. At the time of writin...
Mayhem is Gory Fun [Frightfest 2017 Review]
Joe Lynch has had an interesting career thus far. The man most well-known among genre fans for being the other guy on super-popular podcast The Movie Crypt alongside longtime buddy Adam Green, and for...
Frightfest 2017 Review: Tragedy Girls
Tyler MacIntyre’s fourth feature Tragedy Girls is being touted as a mixture of Clueless and Scream (high praise indeed) but the director sees it more as a spiritual successor to cult teen movie ...
Frightfest 2017 Review: Sequence Break
After quietly making a name for himself in Joe Begos’s Almost Human and The Mind’s Eye, as well as playing Herbert West onstage in Re: Animator: The Musical, actor Graham Skipper broke out...
Frightfest 2017 Review: Victor Crowley
It was the best kept secret since Blair Witch (a new trend in horror? Let’s hope so) as fan-favourite filmmaker Adam Green, at what attendees were told was a special, tenth anniversary screening...
Leatherface is the Least Compelling Character in His Own Movie [FrightFest Review]
The death of the inimitable Tobe Hooper, creator of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, has cast a considerable shadow over Leatherface, the unasked-for origin story of his greatest creation from French dir...
Frightfest 2017 Review: Cult Of Chucky
Five years ago, the idea of a brand-new Chucky film coming along to reinvigorate the assumed-dead franchise would’ve been inconceivable. But 2013’s lively, and impressively dark, Curse Of ...
Frightfest 2017 Spotlight: Tragedy Girls
It’s finally August, which means the countdown to Frightfest 2017 is on. In the weeks leading up to the festival, Joey Keogh will be taking a look at some of the most anticipated movies on this...