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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 […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Madness in the Method

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Madness in the Method, 2019. Directed by Jason Mewes. Starring Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Teri Hatcher, Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo, Stan Lee, Gina Carano, Dean Cain and Casper Van Dien. SYNOPSIS: Jason Mewes, attempting method acting in order to gain more respect for himself in Hollywood, slowly descends into madness. That Jason Mewes, best known […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Feedback

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Feedback, 2019. Directed by Pedro C. Alonso. Starring Eddie Marsan, Paul Anderson, Ivana Baquero and Richard Brake. SYNOPSIS: A radio star experiences the worst night of his life when stalkers assault the radio station where he’s working. If you needed any further proof that Eddie Marsan is one of the most reliable performers of his […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – I Trapped the Devil

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I Trapped the Devil, 2019. Directed by Josh Lobo. Starring A. J. Bowen, Scott Poythress, Susan Theresa Burke, Jocelin Donahue, and Chris Sullivan. SYNOPSIS: A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas. I […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Kindred Spirits

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Kindred Spirits, 2019. Directed by Lucky McKee. Starring Thora Birch, Caitlin Stasey, Macon Blair and Sasha Frolova. SYNOPSIS: Chloe is a single mother in a clandestine relationship with her neighbour Alex that even her daughter knows nothing about. But when her sister Sadie comes back home after a long unexplained absence, a grim incident from […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – The Wind

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The Wind, 2019. Directed by Emma Tammi. Starring Miles Anderson, Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles and Dylan McTee. SYNOPSIS: A plains-woman faces the harshness and isolation of the untamed land in the Western frontier of the late 1800s. Director Emma Tammi delivers an uncommonly confident and formally assured debut with a peculiar horror-western that boasts […]

Movie Review – Ready or Not (2019)

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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 is flipped upside down when the family she marries into has a strange tradition. Instead of a beautiful night […]