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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
