The UK’s annual genre festival Arrow Video FrightFest is going virtual this year, and the organisers have announced its line-up for the Digital Edition, which is set to run between Friday August 28th and Monday August 31st. FrightFest 2020 consists of 24 feature films, two short film showcases and two events, along with a warm-up […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Sky Sharks
Sky Sharks, 2020. Written and directed by Marc Fehse. Starring Thomas Morris, Barbara Nedeljakova, Eva Habermann, and Tony Todd. SYNOPSIS: A team of geologists discovers a Nazi warship in the Arctic that was believed lost: the Himmelsfaust, a gigantic steel colossus from the Third Reich, filled to the brim with unimaginable machines of destruction. Dr. […]
Movie Review – Skylines (2020)
Skylines, 2020. Written and directed by Liam O’Donnell. Starring Lindsey Morgan, Rhona Mitra, Alexander Siddig, James Cosmo, Daniel Bernhardt, Yayan Ruhian, and Jonathan Howard. SYNOPSIS: When a virus threatens to turn the now Earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Slaxx
Slaxx, 2020. Co-written and directed by Elza Kephart. Starring Romane Denis, Brett Donahue, Sehar Bhojani, and Stephen Bogaert. SYNOPSIS: When a possessed pair of jeans begins to kill the staff of a trendy clothing store, it is up to Libby, an idealistic young salesclerk, to stop its bloody rampage. Director Elza Kephart does for Levi’s what […]
Exclusive Interview – Two Heads Creek writer-star Jordan Waller on severed penises, immigration and showing the film to Priti Patel
Tom Beasley hops on to Zoom with the writer and leading man of FrightFest horror-comedy Two Heads Creek, Jordan Waller… The increasing global intolerance towards immigrants provides the backdrop for a splatter-soaked genre hybrid in the new horror-comedy Two Heads Creek. It’s a film that follows a pair of Brits (Jordan Waller and Kathryn Wilder) […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2020 Review – The Swerve
The Swerve, 2018. Written and directed by Dean Kapsalis. Starring Azura Skye, Bryce Pinkham, Ashley Bell, and Zach Rand. SYNOPSIS: The dark secrets of Holly’s seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever. Dean Kapsalis’ shattering debut scarcely qualifies as horror in the traditional sense, tackling instead […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Dark Stories
Dark Stories, 2020. Directed by François Descraques and Guillaume Lubrano. Starring Kristanna Loken, Michelle Ryan, Dominique Pinon, Delphine Chaneac, John Robinson,Tiphaine Daviot, Sebastien Lalanne, Dorylia Calmel, Slimane Baptiste Berhoun, Loup Denis Elion, Julien Pestel, Florent Dorin, and Thierry Fremont. SYNOPSIS: Five short horror films about ghouls, E.T., haunted dolls, zombies and more. True consistency is […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Av: The Hunt
Av: The Hunt, 2020. Directed by Emre Akay. Starring Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Baki Kaymaz, Yagizcan Konyah, and Billur Melis Koç. SYNOPSIS: After being caught with her lover, a woman becomes hunted by her own relatives who want to kill her for their family’s honour. As modern Hollywood seems insistent on shoving Hallmark truisms about the […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Blinders
Blinders, 2020. Directed by Tyler Savage. Starring Christine Ko, Vincent Van Horn, Michael Lee Joplin, and Dusty Sorg. SYNOPSIS: A young man’s budding romance is threatened when he befriends an unstable ride-share driver. The Cable Guy gets a grisly millennial update in Tyler Savage’s (Inheritance) sophomore feature Blinders, fleshing out a potentially over-familiar stalker thriller with […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Enhanced
Enhanced, 2020. Co-written and directed by James Mark. Starring George Tchortov, Alanna Bale, Adrian Holmes, and Chris Mark. SYNOPSIS: A young woman with enhanced abilities finds herself hunted down by a sinister government organisation. But when an even stronger enhanced serial killer emerges on the scene, agents and mutants are forced to question their allegiances. […]
