After its sinister summer showcase, FrightFest — the U.K.’s largest genre film festival — returns with six fear-filled films boasting either their world, international, or U.K. premieres, including Jen and […]
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Arrow FrightFest Delivers Scares Galore in Its 2022 Short Film Program
Arrow FrightFest has already announced its terrific feature films lineup for this year, and now the U.K.’s premiere fear-fare fest presents its scintillating slate of short shockers. Following is the […]
Arrow Video FrightFest Announces Recruitment for New Blood Writers Initiative Class of 2022
With Arrow Video FrightFest unleashing the fearsome hordes into London’s West End cinemas in late August, the search resumes for new writers in the horror genre through its New Blood […]
Feeling “Mean Spirited?” Arrow Video FrightFest Premieres This New Horror Comedy
Arrow Video FrightFest may have announced its stellar lineup for this year a few days ago, but who knew they weren’t quite done yet? The U.K.’s premiere fear-fare festival gives […]
UK’s Arrow Video FrightFest Announces Its Mammoth, Monstrous Lineup
Each summer, Arrow Video FrightFest brings a treasure trove of chillers and thrillers to London. This year’s lineup is absolutely huge, offering everything from the world premiere of renowned fear-fare […]
[Review] Benny Loves You (Arrow Video FrightFest’s Digital Edition 2): U.K. Killer Doll Film Boasts Side-Splitting Comedy and Blood-Splattering Gore
No matter where you stand on killer doll movies, prepare to give your heart — or whatever piece of your anatomy the titular animated evil stuffed toy wishes to take […]
[Review] Breakfast (Arrow Video FrightFest): A Sickly Woman Wakes Up with a Frightening Appetite
Breakfast is a gripping Australian shocker short blending body horror with another fright-fare aspect that would be criminal to spoil here. Written by Paul Beattie and codirected by Beattie and […]
“Train to Busan” Sequel “Peninsula” to Open Arrow Video FrightFest’s October Event
Four years ago, Train to Busan was voted the most popular FrightFest Closing Night film ever. This year, the hotly anticipated stand-alone sequel Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula will open […]
[Review] Guest (Arrow Video FrightFest): A Fleeing Woman Has Every Reason to Be Terror-Stricken in Chilling Short Film
Writer/director Finn Callan’s U.K. short film Guest is rich in spine-tingling atmosphere, from the bandaged appearance of its protagonist Mary (Melania Crisan) to the heavy sense of dread throughout to […]
[Review] I Am Lisa (Arrow Video FrightFest): A Young Woman Uses Newfound Lycanthropic Powers to Exact Revenge
The latest entry in the subgenre of young women finding power as werewolves is I Am Lisa, a film that follows such entries as Canada’s Ginger Snaps (2000) and the […]
[Review] Death Walks on Nitrate (Portland Horror Film Festival): Giallo and the Supernatural Meld in Hallucinatory Horror Short
Old-school film stock and classic giallo techniques combine in writer/director Kevin Fermini’s horror short Death Walks on Nitrate. The result is a trippy, beautiful looking slice of cinema with an […]
Arrow Video FrightFest Digital Edition: 10 Questions with Alastair Orr
Gruesome Magazine previewed Arrow Video FrightFest’s Digital Edition, which runs August 27-31. One of the fest’s intriguing offerings is Triggered, which the festival site describes as “A sick, twisted, slasher […]
Arrow Video FrightFest Digital Edition Presents 10 Questions with “Two Heads Creek” Director Jesse O’Brien
Gruesome Magazine reviewed the gore-splattered Australian horror comedy Two Heads Creek, and now the film is headed to Arrow Video FrightFest’s Digital Edition, which runs August 27-31. Here is the […]
Arrow Video FrightFest’s 10 Questions with Brea Grant of “12 Hour Shift”
Brea Grant is an actress well known to horror film fans for her roles in such films as After Midnight, Beyond the Gates, and Dead Night. She is also an […]
The Rusalka (AKA The Siren), Freaks, and The Witch: Part 1 — The Subversion (Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow): Female Monsters and Mutants Abound
Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow featured three films highlighted by powerful, mysterious female characters for its March 2nd screenings. These films ranged from subtle and understated to violent and gory. The […]