Over the past couple of years, I’ve felt like a gap has opened up in the UK physical media market; whilst we may be living in the prime era of collectors’ edition Blu-Ray and 4K UHD home video releases, it feels as though UK distributors have fallen out of love […]
Robyn Adams
Robyn Adams is a writer, filmmaker and actress from Stockport, Greater Manchester, who has been part of the Geek Show team since 2022. She is best known for directing the short transgender folk-horror film The Estrogen Gospel (2024), as well as for her acting roles in films such as The Moon is a Hologram and Louise Weard's Castration Movie series. As a writer, she specialises in covering queer and genre cinema - be it trashy, sleazy, gothic, folkloric, campy, offbeat, freaky, or all of the above. She is a regular contributor to The Geek Show's podcasts, and has also been a multiple-time guest on Bloody Disgusting's Horror Queers.
Screamplay (Fantastic Fest 2026)
Interior: writer’s studio. The film reviewer sits hunched over her laptop, typing away like a madwoman – she has just begun writing her review of a recently-restored ‘80s horror gem that was recently remastered in 4K by Muscle Distribution, and premiered at the 2026 edition of Fantastic Fest. The door […]
Platypus (Fantastic Fest 2026)
The platypus is a confounding beast, one which defies and disregards all known laws of nature; it is undeniably a mammal, yet it has a bill, webbed feet, lays eggs, and produces venom. Even the plural of its name, “platypuses”, feels like it violates some deep, unspoken rule. British scientists […]
Our Effed Up World (FrightFest 2026)
Back in 2021, before I started writing for The Geek Show, I received an Instagram DM from a 17-year-old transfem filmmaker from Australia named Alice Maio Mackay, who had just completed her first feature film and wanted to share it with as many transgender people on the horror scene as […]
Ithaqua (Frightfest 2026)
It’s the 19th century in Northern Ontario, Canada. The winter is harsher than usual, and the fur trade is in decline. Food is scarce, and tension is plentiful. The woods are quiet. Too quiet. It’s the late 1970s. England’s beloved home-grown horror studio Hammer Film Productions is struggling in the […]
The Peril at Pincer Point (II) (Frightfest 2026)
Anybody who has made a film in any capacity will know that the process of working with sound is a multi-layered hell. Surely, there is a reason why filmmakers tamed the image before they were able to accompany it with recorded sound; like the sea, it is a force to […]
Heraldry Paranormal (Frightfest 2026)
A spectre is haunting Yorkshire. In the late 1960s, a family living on a council estate in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, claimed to have been terrorised by the apparition of a ‘black monk’ which hurled objects and violently attacked their youngest daughter – with the case eventually being adapted into the […]
Snapshot (Frightfest 2026)
The year is 1888, and the British Isles are full of wonder and horror. In Leeds, the French pioneer Louis Le Prince has just invented the first moving-picture camera, whilst down in smog-bound London, William Friese-Greene and Alexander Parkes are conducting early experiments in celluloid; next door in Whitechapel, a […]
Desperate Living (1977) The darkest, cruellest, and most shocking entry in Waters’ Trash Trilogy
John Waters’ filmography is proof that you don’t need to be classy to be canonical, but that being said, the man dubbed as the “Pope of Trash” is by all accounts a witty, intelligent, and stylish individual. It’s delightful to see Waters’ work – not least his more vulgar and […]
Our Picks for Frightfest 2026
Forget “Summerween” – every long-time U.K. horror fan knows that FrightFest is the place to go if you’re looking for midsummer monsters and seasonal scares. This August, the beloved London-based genre film festival returns for its 26th year running for five days and nights of cinematic terror, both unseen and […]