Festivals: Frightfest
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...
The Great Festival Rebound of 2020: Chapter One - The Film Festivals
2020 was some kind of year. There were more pressing matters, of course, but as a film site - any film site - we live and breathe by the beat of the film festival circuit. So as the year...
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020: Lineup Starts With SKY SHARKS And Looks Bloody Good
Some 25 films have been announced to celebrate the 21st bloody year of a beloved genre film festival. As we heard in June, Arrow Video FrightFest is going virtual for its next edition, which will be held, as is tradition,...
BENNY LOVES YOU Trailer: Check Out This Killer Doll Horror Comedy From The UK
Take a moment to watch this trailer for Karl Holt's killer doll horror comedy Benny Loves You which will be hitting the festival circuit this Summer. This is his feature film debut which he wrote and directed. Holt also takes...
HARPOON Trailer: Catch Rob Grant's Dark Comedy This October
Rob Grant's lost-at-sea love triangle thriller Harpoon sales into cinemas, bluray & VOD this October. Last week a new trailer was released. We are a bit tardy with the news but what is a week between friends? Rivalries, dark...
A NIGHT OF HORROR: NIGHTMARE RADIO: A Very Pretty Poster For Horror Anthology
The new horror anthology A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio will have its world premiere at the Nocturna Madrid Fantastic Film Festival in Spain. The collection of short films comes with a new wrap around story created by the...