Piper review: An uncanny intersection of fantasy and reality
Anthony Waller’s Lower Saxony-set modern fairytale confounds the psychological and the supernatural while disinterring an old legend.
Cinema “It’s not going to appease everybody…” JT Mollner and Giovanni Ribisi on Strange Darling
Director JT Mollner and director of photography Giovanni Ribisi talk about the complexities of their new non-linear thriller, Strange Darling.
Strange Darling review: A twisted romance that upends expectations
There are no safe words to describe JT Mollner’s twisted hookup of dating etiquette and serial killer thrill-seeking
Saint Clare review: Psychodrama, coming-of-age narrative and rape revenger
Mitzi Peirone’s serial-killing psychodrama pits a damaged Catholic schoolgirl against small-town male toxicity
Azrael: Angel of Death review: Violent, vicious and visceral
E.L. Katz’s post-apocalyptic survival thriller pits a determined young woman against a cult community of believers
Members Club Frightfest review: A dark horror-comedy that twists masculinity and witchcraft
Marc Coleman’s horror comedy pits four ageing male strippers against an even older witch who wants their manhood.
7 Keys Frightfest review: A taut, violent thriller
Joy Wilkinson’s impressive feature debut is all at once city symphony, mobile romance and tense urban psychothriller
Touchdown Frightfest review: Chilling sci-fi debut exploring humanity’s first contact with alien life
Josephine Rose’s mediated sci-fi feature debut shows an online network of friends struggling to comprehend alien contact from the ground up
Hauntology review: Spooky narratives of injustice and discrimination
Parker Brennon’s LGBTQ ghost story collection allegorises a young black queer woman’s embrace of the difference running in her family
Cinema Cursed in Baja Frightfest review: Crossing genres and borders
Jeff Daniel Phillips noirish monster movie smuggles recurring destinies and recidivist tendencies across the border.
Cinema Mutilator 2 review: A comic satire and a slice-and-dice shocker
Hooked on killing: Buddy Cooper’s belated self-referential slasher requel satirises its own remaking, while taking out its own cast and crew
The Bunker review: Isolation, alienation and bunkered-down insanity
In Brian Hanson’s science fiction feature, an alien invasion resonates with the Covid lockdown while intersecting with feminism.
Shelby Oaks review: Ambitious, unnerving and atmospheric
Chris Stuckmann’s occult horror finds missing persons, maternal anxieties and madness between its multi-mediated textures.
An Taibhse (The Ghost) review: Enigmatic, equivocal and deeply unsettling
John Farrelly’s Irish-language ghost story is an incestuous merger of gothic psychodrama and perverted coming of age.
“I just love things that you haven’t seen before.” 7 Keys director Joy Wilkinson on her new thriller
Ahead of its UK Premiere at FrightFest, we speak to 7 Keys writer and director Joy Wilkinson about her London-based thriller.
“It’s quite salacious and naughty.” 7 Keys star Emma McDonald on her new thriller
Ahead of its UK Premiere at FrightFest, we speak to 7 Keys star Emma McDonald about working on the toxic London-based thriller…
Cinema Broken Bird review: Exploring life, love and loss
Joanne Mitchell’s mortuary psychodrama disinters madness from mourning and poetry from perversion.
“I didn’t even have her on my radar.” Hauntology director Parker Brennon on getting horror icon Nancy Loomis out of retirement
We speak to Parker Brennon about their queer horror anthology Hauntology and casting Halloween star Nancy Loomis.
Cinema Teaser released for 7 Keys ahead of its UK premiere at FrightFest
A couple find themselves exploring the hidden sides of London in upcoming thriller, 7 Keys. Watch the teaser here…
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest: Horror has a new home a festival moves venues
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest’s 25th year is celebrated with move to ODEON Luxe Leicester Sq plus the horror festival reveals its new poster art.
