Director: Anthony Waller Writer: Anthony Waller, Duncan Kennedy Cast: Elizabeth Hurley, Mia Jenkins, Jack Stewart, Robert Daws Running Time: 105 mins In Piper, a car speeds alongside woods in the rain at night. Inside Kerry Weiss (Alma Rix) tries to stay in command of the vehicle, while preventing her manically humming young son Matty (Jékabs
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Director: Xavier Gens Cast: Nassim Lyes, Olivier Gourmet, Loryn Nounay, Vithaya Pansringarm Running Time: 96 mins ‘Farang’ is the Thai word for ‘Caucasian’, or more generally for ‘foreigner’ – and while Xavier Gens’ film of the same name begins in France, its Algerian protagonist Samir ‘Sam’ Darba (the extraordinary Nassim Lyes) is already an outsider,
Director: Michael J. Hurst Cast: Vernon Wells, Felissa Rose, Dave Sheridan, Sadie Katz Running Time: 73 mins Transmission begins with a satellite flashing a red light over Earth, and a large radar dish below picking up its signal – which is to say that, as the film’s very title suggests, here the medium is the
Director: Graham Hughes Cast: Graham Hughes, Stephen Beavis, Annabel Logan, Andy Stewart Running Time: 80 mins Much like writer/director Graham Hughes’ previous feature Death of a Vlogger (2019), Hostile Dimensions begins with intradiegetic camerawork, as unseen cameraman Brian follows graffiti artist Emily (Josie Rogers) into an abandoned building where they discover a door and frame
Director: Sarah Appleton, Jasper Sharp Cast: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Rie Inoo, Shinya Tsukamoto Running Time: 95 mins J-Horror typically features alienated individuals and viral curses, and uses technology – whether outgoing and analogue, like hand-me-down VHS cassettes, or incoming and digital, like the internet – as the medium for its uncanny hauntings. As its
“A lot of my nightmares growing up were about clowns,” Zelda Adams reveals when we ask her about her new movie, Where The Devil Roams, “especially after I watched season four of American Horror Story!” We’re feeling you Zelda – clowns and carnivals are a staple in the horror genre, and Where The Devil Roams
The Bloomquist Brothers – Erik and Carson – (She Came From The Woods) are back with another horror this summer as their political slasher Founders Day heads to London for its international premier at the UK’s top horror festival, FrightFest. The movie sees a small town shaken by a series of ominous killings in the
The UK’s top scare bonanza, FrightFest, returns to London for its 24th edition on Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August 2023 and the festival always attracts not only some of the top horror movies we’re going to be excited about for the coming year, but all aspects of the filmmaking community. This year, members
Director: Maximilian Erlenwein Writer: Maximilian Erlenwein, Joachim Hedén Cast: Sophie Lowe, Louisa Krause “I still get a bit nervous every time,” says Drew (Sophie Lowe), about to step off a narrow jetty into the sea for a cave dive. “Lucky you,” replies her sister May (Louisa Krause), “Nervous is good. Excitement’s a good thing.” May
Our favourite UK scare fest is back next week with Pigeon Shrine FrightFest returning to Cineworld in Leicester Square, London, for its 24th edition. Running from Thursday August 24 – Monday 28 August 2023, Pigeon Shrine FrightFest will have feature-length and short films, as well as documentaries, and will encompass 25 World, 23 International /
Director: John Rosman Writer: John Rosman Cast: Tony Amendola, Hayley Erin, Sonya Walger Running Time: 85 mins New Life launches the viewer in medias res, with Jessica Murdock (Hayley Erin) walking down a suburban street, her face covered in blood that is in fact not her own. She lets herself into the house that she
Director: Quarxx Writer: Quarxx Cast: Hugo Dillon, Arben Bajraktaraj, Manon Maindivide, Ophélia Kolb, Carl Laforêt Running Time: 96 mins “I’m not in denial anymore,” says Daniel (Arben Bajraktaraj) to Nathan (Hugo Dillon) very near the beginning of Pandemonium. Nathan has just awoken lying in the middle of an isolated road that snakes through misty mountains,
Director: Writer: Austin Jennings, Matt Frink Cast: Emily Sweet, Brad Thomas, Bruno Veljanovski Running Time: 86 mins Eight Eyes starts as it intends to finish: with an unsettling enigma. The camera tilts down through the darkness of night to a big fire, onto which some clothing is placed, and in which a charred human head
Director: Alice Maio Mackay Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Ben Pahl Robinson Cast: Lewi Dawson, Etcetera Etcetera, Lisa Fanto, Toshiro Glenn, Lauren Last Running Time: 75 mins “The film you are about to see is a work of fantastic fiction, ooh, but it’s realer than you think,” states Cryptessa (Etcetera Etcetera) to the camera at the
Director: Junta Yamaguchi Writer: Makoto Ueda Cast: Riko Fujitani, Yoshimasa Kondo, Shiori Kubo, Munenori Nagano, Yuki Torigoe Running Time: 82 mins “You can’t step into the same river twice,” is a quote attributed to the Early Greek philosopher Heraclitus, as an illustration of stability’s absence in a world of flux. Yet in Junta Yamaguchi’s latest,
Director: Jenn Wexler Writer: Jenn Wexler, Sean Redlitz Cast: Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Chloë Levine, Madison Baines, Georgia Acken, Derek Johns, Laurent Pitre Running Time: 100 mins After a group of Christmas carollers leaves the front porch of an ordinary suburban house, four people watching from the darkness move in, immediately stabbing in the
Director: Paris Zarcilla Writer: Paris Zarcilla Cast: Leanne Best, Jaeden Paige Boadilla, Max Eigenmann, David Hayman Running Time: 100 mins Raging Grace opens with the young girl of the title (Jesden Paige Boadilla) sitting at a bedroom desk and drawing a picture of herself happily holding hands with her mother. Then the camera drifts over
A camping trip turns deadly for a couple when one of them gets injured in a world infected by zombie-like ‘Heps’ in upcoming horror Herd, which has been officially selected for this year’s FrightFest, and will celebrate its World Premiere on August 26th at the iconic horror festival. Watch the trailer for Herd here… [embedded
Dubbed “the Woodstock of Gore” by none other than Guillermo Del Toro, FrightFest is back for 2023 and with it comes some truly gruesome, frightening and downright wrong (in a good way) horror movies for audiences to enjoy. The horror film festival returns to Cineworld Leicester Square, London, for its 24th edition, and this year
Scott Mann’s Fall, is a pulse-pounding, vertigo-inducing experience as two best friends, stranded at the top of a remote, abandoned 2000-feet high radio tower, fight for survival. After the tragic death of her husband in a climbing accident, avid rock climber Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) has withdrawn from the world. In an effort to help
Director: Scott Mann Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Grace Fulton, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding Distributor: Signature Entertainment Running Time: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Grace Fulton, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding The opening title credit for Scott Mann’s Fall is written vertically, with the initial ‘f’ at the top of the screen and the final ‘l’ at the bottom.
Director: Dominic Brunt Cast: James Fleet, Jay Taylor, Nicky Evans, Rupert Proctor Running Time: 85 mins Those expecting the film that they are watching to be Dominic Brunt’s Wolf Manor might be surprised to see a title at the beginning for Crimson Manor, directed by Derrick Francis. There is a blood moon, and lightning over
Director: Brea Grant Cast: Katey Sagal, Abby Quinn, Alexxis Lemire, Joshua Leonard Running Time: 97 mins “We’re like sisters,” says Leigh Blackhouse (Alexxis Lemire) about herself and her best friend/bandmate Jordan Wilder (Abby Quinn). Their country band Torn Hearts is starting to gain traction in Nashville’s bar circuit, but not nearly fast enough to match
Director: Scott Lyus Writer: Scott Lyus Cast: Sophia Eleni, Reece Douglas, James Swanton Scott Lyus’ Walking Against The Rain opens with text which sounds like a quote from the Biblical Book of Revelation (although it is in fact of the filmmaker’s invention), about the defiant ones knowing ‘great pain’, and beasts risen from the abyss
Director: Neil Marshall Cast: Charlotte Kirk, Jamie Bamber, Jonathan Howard, Hadi Khanjanpour Running Time: 90 mins It is April 2017, in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, and if there is one thing that we know, it is that Neil Marshall’s The Lair is going to end with a bang. We know this because text at the very
Director: Jacob Gentry Cast: Brea Grant, AJ Bowen, Scott Poythress, Sandra Benton Running Time: 96 mins Near the end of Night Sky, someone will menacingly promise protagonist Oren (AJ Bowen) “a long excruciating couple of agonisingly painful hours while you – you helplessly wait to bleed out,” adding, “a sensation with which I think you’re
Director: Francois Descraques Cast: Arnaud Ducret, Florent Dorin, Enya Baroux, Raphael Descraques Running Time: 105 mins “Turn back!”, are the first words heard in Visitor From The Future (Le visiteur du futur), addressed to a technician who is running into a nuclear power plant in meltdown while his colleagues are all fleeing the other way.
Fancy a film festival stuffed full of horror and fantasy? Well, you’re reading SciFiNow so of course you do! That’s what Arrow Video’s FrightFest is all about and it’s returning to London at Cineworld Leicester Square from Thurs August 26 – Monday 30 August, 2021. We announced the first wave of films last week, and the
There’s music and murder aplenty in Sound Of Violence, which will be having its premiere at Arrow FrightFest next month. But you don’t have to wait until then to find out more about the thrilling new horror as we exclusively reveal the UK teaser trailer below… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:
Telling the tale of a heckle gone bad, er… Heckle follows comedian Joe Johnson as he and his friends decide to throw an Eighties Halloween party, complete with VHS and no mobile phones. However, when their joke of being part of their own Eighties slasher becomes a little too real, Joe has to find out who’s