Freaks first look review: FrightFest Glasgow 2019
Genre-leaping coming-of-ager Freaks concerns a very unusual family’s efforts to survive in a hostile world
Genre-leaping coming-of-ager Freaks concerns a very unusual family’s efforts to survive in a hostile world
Park Hoon-Jung’s The Witch: Part 1 tells a bloody Superman-like tale of a mysterious young foundling coming of age
Søren Juul Petersen’s debut Finale uses slasher/torture porn tropes to put paying viewers in their (uncomfortable) place
Lawrie Brewster’s gothic mystery romance Automata is layered, tragic and haunting
Perry Blackshear’s The Siren, an eerie tale of love and loss, finds a monstrous littoral between the aquatic and the erotic.
Monster movie Giant Killer Ant may be playing a familiar tune, but is as unstoppable as an ageing rock band
Adrián García Bogliano’s magnetically mesmeric ‘cult’ movie Black Circle will mess with your head.
Jack McHenry’s debut Here Comes Hell is knowingly backward-looking 1930s-style castle horror
Billy Senese’s The Dead Center uses a clinical setting for a creepy collision of the psychological and the supernatural
In Danishka’s Esterhazy’s not-quite dystopia Level 16, women must obey and beauty is only skin deep
We talk to writer-director Billy Senese about his twisting psychological horror The Dead Center ahead of FrightFest Glasgow
Here are our reviews of Final Stop, The Most Assassinated Woman In The World and more from FrightFest
Two sisters, a plastic surgeon and a mystery make for an unpredictable chiller in Takeshi Sone’s Ghost Mask: Scar
A whole neighbourhood is haunted in Demián Rugna’s unpredictable shocker Terrified
Three feature documentaries about horror fans and the niches where they worship
The Paz brothers’ mythic oater/monster mash-up The Golem is a parable of Israel’s beleaguered, cursed status
Gaspar Noé’s fifth feature Climax is a beautifully choreographed bad trip, with one hell of a comedown
Tom Paton’s Lovecraftian action sci-fi Black Site is a mashed-up homage to Carpenter and the Eighties.
Yvonne Strahovski fights off a masked home invader in routine cabin in the woods horror He’s Out There
Societal evils and a malevolent spirit prey on the vulnerable in South African horror The Tokoloshe