FrightFest Review: CHEAT
A ghostly affair Filmmaking duo Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis’ entry from this year’s FrightFest is a creepy little indie horror with...
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Rich
- Aug 28
- 3 min
FrightFest Review: THE DARKSIDE OF SOCIETY
“It’s all true.” As if the shunting wasn’t disturbing enough in Brian Yuzna’s 1989 horror movie Society, we are presented with an...
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Rich
- Aug 26
- 2 min
FrightFest Review: TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST
Four men and a coffin If ever there was an inspired title that epitomises folk horror, then Sean Hogan’s mini feature “To Fire You Come...
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Rich
- Aug 26
- 3 min
FrightFest Review: MONOLITH
All you have to do is listen Chamber pieces and one-hander performances are often the most viable (and logical) approaches to making a...
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Rich
- Aug 26
- 2 min
FrightFest Review: WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS
All in the family I wasn't intending to write anything about Where the Devil Roams as it was one of the few films I wanted to sit and...
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Rich
- Aug 25
- 2 min
FrightFest Review: THE KNOCKING
Family trees Finish horror is developing quite the niche since Jalmari Helander’s festive feast Rare Exports was released in 2010. Since...
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Rich
- Aug 25
- 3 min
FrightFest Review: NEW LIFE
A deadly journey There are two stories at the heart of John Rosman’s debut feature, both of which feel as if they will inevitably collide...
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Rich
- Aug 25
- 2 min
FrightFest Review: THE J-HORROR VIRUS
More than just a grudge Focusing on the origin of Japanese movies that were a huge part of ushering in 21st-century horror, The J-Horror...
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Rich
- Aug 5
- 3 min
FrightFest Review: EIGHT EYES
Horror trip While on vacation in Yugoslavia, an American couple attracts the attention of ‘Saint’ Peter, a mysterious half-blind local...
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Rich
- Jul 22
- 3 min
FrightFest Review: THE BLUE ROSE
Something very strange is happening in Hollyweird… Midnight seems an apt time to pour the wine and drop the needle on Lana Del Rey... the...
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Rich
- Jul 16
- 2 min
For the love of PRIMAL
Savage art Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal is less One Million Years BC and more One Million Years 2D. As would be expected from his more...
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Rich
- Apr 21
- 2 min
Rust and Bone (2012)
Brutal Romanticism "If we continue, we have to do it right." Jacques Audiard’s unflinching melodrama is an exploration of how physical...
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Rich
- Apr 21
- 1 min
Broken Bells: After the Disco (2014)
A Supergroup Returns Broken Bells' second album, After the Disco showcases the intricate beats and articulate, electronic compositions...
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Rich
- Apr 18
- 3 min
End of Watch (2012)
These are the Good Guys. "I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like...
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Rich
- Apr 18
- 1 min
About a Girl (short film, 2001)
Sucker Punched '"He never let's us 'ave nuffin'...it's always, 'Do a' look like a f***in' bank?!' She says she's not gor enough saved for...
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Rich
- Apr 18
- 2 min
The Nao of Brown
A Sequential State of Mind ‘I had a feeling something wasn’t right, it was over my shoulder and inching up on me…it doesn’t always happen...
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