Freaks, 2019.Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein. Starring Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Lexy Kolker and Amanda Crew.SYNOPSIS:A bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father’s protective and paranoid control.From one of the directors of the execrable Leprechaun: Origins comes a […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Knives and Skin
Knives and Skin, 2019.Directed by Jennifer Reeder. Starring Marika Engelhardt, Kate Arrington, Grace Smith and Ireon Roach.SYNOPSIS:A mystical teen noir that follows a young girl’s disappearance in the rural Midwest and its effect on teens and parents.Veteran filmmaker Jennifer Reeder brings her brand of feminist, queer-centric cinema to Frightfest, in what’s sure to be one […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Dark Encounter
Dark Encounter, 2019.Directed by Carl Strathie. Starring Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Vincent Regan, and Alice Lowe.SYNOPSIS:A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Come to Daddy
Come to Daddy, 2019.Directed by Ant Timpson. Starring Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Martin Donovan and Michael Smiley.SYNOPSIS:A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.This year’s Frightfest begins as it means to go on with an intriguingly demented, expectation-shifting blackly comic thriller from first-time filmmaker, long-time producer Ant […]
