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Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Eat, Brains, Love

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Eat Brains Love, 2019. Directed by Rodman Flender. Starring Jake Cannavale, Angelique Rivera, Sarah Yarkin and Alex Stage. SYNOPSIS: The good news: Jake’s dream girl, Amanda Blake, finally knows his name. The bad news: it is because they both contracted a mysterious zombie virus and devoured the brains of half their senior class. Now Jake […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Ready or Not

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Ready or Not, 2019. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Starring Samara Weaving, Andie MacDowell, Mark O’Brien, Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, Nicky Guadagni, Melanie Scrofano, Kristian Bruun, and Elyse Levesque. SYNOPSIS: A bride’s wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game. If […]

Preacher Season 4 Episode 5 Review – ‘Bleak City’

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  Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Preacher season 4… There are a number of creative contradictions which relegate any mediocrity from episode four to the realm of bad memory. Combinations of pathos and villainy combine with endless invention making Preacher essential viewing, as the outcome can sometimes hinder rather than help. Joseph Gilgun, […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Nekrotronic

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Nekrotronic, 2019. Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner. Starring Ben O’Toole, Epine Bob, Savea, Dave Beamish, David Wenham and Monica Bellucci. SYNOPSIS: A man discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons in the Internet. Aussie filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood) returns with a sophomore feature that sets […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – The Furies

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The Furies, 2019. Directed by Tony D’Aquino. Starring Airlie Dodds, Linda Ngo, Taylor Ferguson and Ebony Vagulans. SYNOPSIS: A woman is kidnapped and finds herself an unwilling participant in a deadly game where woman are hunted by masked men. Tony D’Aquino’s feature debut The Furies promises an unapologetically (Aussie) feminist horror romp from the outset, yet […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Crawl

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Crawl, 2019. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, George Somner, Ami Metcalf, José Palma, Morfydd Clark, Annamaria Serda, Savannah Steyn and Colin McFarlane. SYNOPSIS: A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 2019. Directed by André Øvredal. Starring Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur, Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Natalie Ganzhorn, Dean Norris and Javier Botet. SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers are pursued by various supernatural beasties when they uncover an old book from a haunted house. Alvin Schwartz’s legendary children’s […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Critters Attack!

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Critters Attack!, 2019. Directed by Bobby Miller. Starring Tashiana Washington and Dee Wallace. SYNOPSIS: While babysitting two teenagers, college student Drea discovers that the alien Krites have landed in the nearby forest. They soon receive help from the mysterious Aunt Dee, who might have a history with the hungry intergalactic beasts. Some 27 years after […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Bliss

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Bliss, 2019. Directed by Joe Begos. Starring Dora Madison, Tru Collins, Rhys Wakefield and Jeremy Gardner.     SYNOPSIS: A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex, and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los […]