A Ghost Waits, 2020. Written and directed by Adam Stovall. Starring MacLeod Andrews, Natalie Walker, Sydney Vollmer, and Amanda Miller. SYNOPSIS: A man’s job requires him to clean a house, which turns out to be haunted. In the course of trying to exorcise the ghost, he falls in love with her. The haunted house movie […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Aquaslash
Aquaslash, 2019. Co-written and directed by Renaud Gauthier. Starring Nicolas Fontaine, Brittany Drisdelle, Madelline Harvey, Paul Zinno, Nick Walker, and Chip Chuipka. SYNOPSIS: Terror awaits a group of high school graduates when a psychopath uses the unstoppable speed and turns of a water slide to his murderous advantage. A movie called Aquaslash invites certain expectations, primarily […]
Arrow Video Frightfest 2020 Review – Two Heads Creek
Two Heads Creek, 2019. Directed by Jesse O’Brien. Starring Kerry Armstrong, Kathryn Wilder, Gary Sweet, and Stephen Hunter. SYNOPSIS: A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and adventure to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – The Honeymoon Phase
The Honeymoon Phase, 2019. Directed by Phillip G. Carroll Jr. Starring François Chau, Tara Westwood, Ione Butler, and Mike Sutton. SYNOPSIS: Struggling young lovers, Tom and Eve, must endure a 30-day scientific experiment. Room, board, $50,000, and a month alone together in research facility housing. What could possibly go wrong? Relationship satire can be ripe […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Playhouse
Playhouse, 2020. Written and directed by Toby Watts and Fionn Watts. Starring Julie Higginson, James Rottger, Helen Mackay, and William Holstead. SYNOPSIS: In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls. Ghosts of the past are thoroughly exorcised in this […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Don’t Click
Don’t Click, 2020. Directed by G-Hey Kim. Starring Valter Skarsgård, Mark Koufos, Catherine Howard, and Ry Barrett. SYNOPSIS: After accessing a pornographic website, two men wake up to find themselves trapped in a dungeon with a supernatural entity. Filmmaker G-Hey Kim adapts her hit festival short Don’t Click into a full feature, proving the difficulty inherent […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Dark Place
Dark Place, 2019. Written and directed by Kodie Bedford, Liam Phillips, Robert Braslin, Perun Bonser, and Bjorn Stewart. Starring Patricia Tallman, Ellen Sandweiss, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, and John Fallon. SYNOPSIS: An anthology of horror tales filtered through the post-colonial experience of the Aboriginal Australians. As popular as horror anthologies might be, it’s also fair to […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – They’re Outside
They’re Outside, 2020. Directed by Airell Anthony Hayles and Sam Casserly. Starring Emily Booth, Nicholas Vince, Tom Clayton-Wheatley, and Chrissy Randall. SYNOPSIS: While filming a documentary about an agoraphobic woman, a celebrity psychologist is drawn into supernatural events. For low-budget horror filmmakers, the found footage subgenre is one of the safer bets, and one that […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Blind
Blind, 2019. Directed by Marcel Walz. Starring Sarah French, Jed Rowen, Caroline Williams, and Tyler Gallant. SYNOPSIS: Faye, a former actress who lost her vision due to botched laser eye surgery, struggles to put her life back together while living alone in her dream house in the Hollywood Hills. When a masked stranger named Pretty […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – The Columnist
The Columnist, 2020. Directed by Ivo van Aart. Starring Katja Herbers, Genio de Groot, Rein Hofman, and Bram van der Kelen. SYNOPSIS: Columnist and author Femke is flooded with anonymous nasty messages and death threats on social media. One day she has enough and decides to take revenge. Social media-minded horror films are a dime […]
