I’m Thinking of Ending Things, 2020. Directed by Charlie Kaufman. Starring Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Colby Minifie, Ashlyn Alessi, Abby Quinn, Hadley Robinson, Dj Nino Carta, Teddy Coluca, Jason Ralph, and Guy Boyd. SYNOPSIS: A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is thinking of ending things on the way to meet her boyfriend’s […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – The Honeymoon Phase
The Honeymoon Phase, 2019. Directed by Phillip G. Carroll Jr. Starring François Chau, Tara Westwood, Ione Butler, and Mike Sutton. SYNOPSIS: Struggling young lovers, Tom and Eve, must endure a 30-day scientific experiment. Room, board, $50,000, and a month alone together in research facility housing. What could possibly go wrong? Relationship satire can be ripe […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Playhouse
Playhouse, 2020. Written and directed by Toby Watts and Fionn Watts. Starring Julie Higginson, James Rottger, Helen Mackay, and William Holstead. SYNOPSIS: In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls. Ghosts of the past are thoroughly exorcised in this […]
Amy Adams joins Dear Evan Hansen
Amy Adams has become the latest addition to the cast of Dear Evan Hansen, the upcoming feature film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Ben Platt (The Politician), who performed the title role on stage, is expected to star in the film as Evan Hansen, a sociacially-awkward teenager who unintentionally gets caught up in a […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Don’t Click
Don’t Click, 2020. Directed by G-Hey Kim. Starring Valter Skarsgård, Mark Koufos, Catherine Howard, and Ry Barrett. SYNOPSIS: After accessing a pornographic website, two men wake up to find themselves trapped in a dungeon with a supernatural entity. Filmmaker G-Hey Kim adapts her hit festival short Don’t Click into a full feature, proving the difficulty inherent […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business, 2020. Directed by Justin McConnell. Featuring George A. Romero, Guillermo del Toro, Richard Stanley, Barbara Crampton, Paul Schrader, and Michael Biehn. SYNOPSIS: Following five years in the life and career of an independent filmmaker, supported by dozens of interviews, posing one question: how does an indie filmmaker survive […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Dark Place
Dark Place, 2019. Written and directed by Kodie Bedford, Liam Phillips, Robert Braslin, Perun Bonser, and Bjorn Stewart. Starring Patricia Tallman, Ellen Sandweiss, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, and John Fallon. SYNOPSIS: An anthology of horror tales filtered through the post-colonial experience of the Aboriginal Australians. As popular as horror anthologies might be, it’s also fair to […]
Aborted Justice League Dark concept art features Swamp Thing, Constantine, Klarion the Witch Boy and a Lady of the Night
With J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot currently developing a Justice League Dark series for HBO Max, it seems that Warner Bros. and DC Films have abandoned their ambitions to bring the team of occult heroes to the big screen for the time being. Way back in 2012, reports first emerged that Guillermo del Toro was looking […]
The New Mutants co-creator slams the X-Men spinoff for white-washing and misspelling his name
Having gathered dust for a couple of years on 20th Century Fox’s shelf, the studio’s final X-Men movie The New Mutants finally saw the light of day this weekend courtesy of Disney, and perhaps rather unsurprisingly the movie isn’t exactly setting the world alight. It’s been met with a mixed response from fans (to put […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – They’re Outside
They’re Outside, 2020. Directed by Airell Anthony Hayles and Sam Casserly. Starring Emily Booth, Nicholas Vince, Tom Clayton-Wheatley, and Chrissy Randall. SYNOPSIS: While filming a documentary about an agoraphobic woman, a celebrity psychologist is drawn into supernatural events. For low-budget horror filmmakers, the found footage subgenre is one of the safer bets, and one that […]
