Festivals: Frightfest News

THAT'S A WRAP Review: Silly, Sexy Horror-Comedy Evokes With Sex And Murder

The cast of director Mason Maestro’s new slasher flick "That's a Wrap." has gathered together for the wrap party. As the festivities go on everyone splinters off, to celebrate the flick, but mostly each other. However, they are unaware that...

FAILURE! Trailer: Ted Raimi And Alex Kahuam Bringing Their One Take Thriller to FrightFest

Failure!’, follows business tycoon James (Raimi – The Quarry, Ash v Evil Dead, Creepshow), a loving family man who has a crushing bank debt which he must resolve within an hour or lose his business. Greedy associates, back-stabbing friends and...

THE BLUE ROSE: George Baron's Surrealist Noir to Premiere at FrightFest

With the announcement of the lineup of Pigeon Shrine Frightfest 2023 behind us our focus will be drawn to specific films in the coming weeks. One of the first to cross our desk is The Blue Rose, described as a...

FrightFest 2023: Full Lineup Announced, Fest Bookended by SUITABLE FLESH And THE SACRIFCE GAME

The summer festival season is in full swing and it is time to look at what our friends at FrightFest have in store for everyone in London this coming August.    Joe Lynch's Suitable Flesh is set to open the...

FrightFest 2023: Poster Art Revealed

Our friends at FrightFest have revealed the poster art for this year's edition, happening at Cineworld Leicester Square from Thursday August 24th through Monday August 28th, 2023. Created once again by frequent collaborator Graham Humphreys the poster sticks with this year's...

FrightFest 2023: UK Genre Fest Announces Glasgow Film Festival Line-up, Including SISU, CONSECRATION And SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING

FrightFest has announced its line-up of films for their program at this year's Glasgow Film Festival. A sort of mid-point of the year for FrightFest the UK genre festival is returning to Glasgow for its 18th year. The three day...

FrightFest Halloween 2022 Line-up Announced! A Simon Boswell Doc, Joe LoTruglio's Debut And Dystopic Switzerland Feature in Day-long Event

I love going to a film festival during the warm months, ducking out of the Summer heat into a cool, dark theatre to watch fantastic movies with a swarming mass of my peers. However, there is something to be said...

FrightFest 2022: Found-Footage Horror Comedy MEAN SPIRITED Added to This Year's Lineup

Last week FrightFest announced the lineup for this year's festival, happening in London at the end of August. If you've ever worked in the film festival setting you know that things are constantly in flux, lineups can be constantly changing...

FrightFest 2022: Neil Marshall's THE LAIR to Open, High Terror FALL to Close UK Genre Fest

It is time, time once again to look with envious eyes upon the lineup of FrightFest, the massive UK genre film festival.    Fightfest has announced their lineup and as expected it kicks total ass. Neil Marshall has a new...

Arrow Video FrightFest 2022: Glasgow Film Festival Line-up Includes THE EXECUTION, WYRMWOOD: APOCALYPSE and YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER

Our friends at FrightFest have announced the lineup for their event at the Glasgow Film Festival. Finding themselves in the enviable position of being able to host an in person event, the weekend long program features some terrific titles from...

Arrow Video FrightFest Announces Line-up For Halloween 2021 Event

Okay, UK, we do not want to hear from any of you that you could not find any cinematic horror-day delights next month. There's already so much going on and now our friends at Arrow Video FrightFest have announced their...

FrightFest 2021: CENSOR's Prano Bailey-Bond Wins FrightFest Screen Genre Rising Star Award

Prano Bailey-Bond and her film Censor have appreciated enormous success since its world premiere at Sundance at the beginning of the year. Last night, on home turf at FrightFest, Bond was awarded the 2021 Screen Genre Rising Star Award.   ...

Shudder Acquires SLAPFACE And THE ADVENT CALENDAR Ahead of FrightFest Premieres

Shudder remains hard at work, bringing subscribers some of the best the festival circuit has to offer this year. Today we get news that they have acquired Slapface and The Advent Calendar. Both films are set to play during Arrow...

CRABS!: An Ode to a Horror Classic And a Wee Bit of Blood in Our First Look

Our friends at Raven Banner Entertainment have given us the first look at Pierce Berolzheimer's debut feature film 'Crabs!'.   A horde of murderous crab monsters descend on a sleepy coastal town on Prom night, and only a ragtag group...

THE LAST RITE Trailer: Leroy Kincaide's Debut to Premiere at Arrow Video FrightFest

Leroy Kincaide's The Last Rite is set to have its world premiere at the famed Arrow Video FrightFest next month. This is the writing and directorial debut of the British ex-pro wrestler. Today the teaser trailer have come our way....

Arrow Video FrightFest 2021: Second Wave Hits With Fourteen World Premieres!

Oh boy! The second wave of Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 is here and it is chock full of so many good and promising genre treats for attendees this year.    As diverse and eclectic as the countries they come from...

FrightFest 2021: London Genre Fest's NEW BLOOD Screenwriter Initiative Returns

Never let anyone downplay the importance of the horror screenwriter. You could have the flashiest, prettiest, moodiest looking or goriest horror flick on the planet but without a good story then it’s all just window dressing, a grotesque Faberge egg...

Arrow Video FrightFest 2021: Blomkamp's DEMONIC to Open London Genre Fest

Apart from the reality that England is heading into the Euro final this Sunday and could win it all, the other exciting news this week coming from the island nation was the first twenty-five titles for this year's Arrow Video...

LUCKY: Watch The Trailer For Natasha Kermani's Awesome Slasher Thriller, See it on Shudder March 4th

Natasha Kermani's unique take on the slasher genre, Lucky, will be available on Shudder next week, March 4th. A trailer was released to lead into the release. Check it out below.    Kermani's terrific slasher thriller was written by her...

The Great Festival Rebound of 2020: Let The Anarchists Speak

We are not at Sundance right now. However, we do have Anarchists who are covering the festival lineup. IFF Rotterdam started today and we won't be there either. But, we do have an Anarchist all raring to go and cover...