Returning this November 24th to the 26th to the Whirled Cinema, Brixton is Soho Horror Festival, closely followed by the online Sohome Horror Fest broadcasting the horror directly into your home on November 30th to December 3rd. Expertly curated by pillar of the horror community and festival director Mitch Harrod, […]
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Good Boy (2023): A Horror Romcom with a Nasty Bite (Review)
Following its UK premiere at Frightfest in August this year, Blue Finch Film have released the much-anticipated Good Boy on digital, and although director Viljar Bøe’s third feature dabbles in the horror genre, as with films like Audition and Fresh, it initially plays out as a typical romantic comedy until […]
Grimmfest 2023 Line-Up
‘The horror we are showcasing this year is interior, intelligent, engaged and explosive. It delights in the genre as much as it bends and redefines it. We are so proud of our 2023 lineup and so excited to share it with you all.’ (Acting co-director Leonie Rowland) Manchester’s International Festival […]
New Religion (Slamdance 2023) (Review)
Here we are, our concluding look at Slamdance 2023 with a movie that made a splash with the most adventurous viewers at last year’s Frightfest. Before that, though, the grand jury decided who is to be awarded the top honours. Narrative Feature: “Waiting for the Light to Change” (Dir. Linh […]
MAD CATS (2023) Review (Slamdance Film Festival)
Sometimes things go unnoticed for years until someone draws attention to them. Case in point, in the press kit for Reiki Tsuno’s Mad Cats – he remarks that most Independent Japanese films are “so sad, serious, and depressing most of the time… Budgets for indie movies in Japan are actually […]
Shudder Acquires Stylish Horror Mastemah ahead of Frightfest World Premiere
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, has acquired the horror film Mastemah ahead of its FrightFest premiere in London in August. Shudder will release the film exclusively in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. From co-writer and director Didier D. Daarwin, Mastemah will […]
Starve Acre (2024) Countryside Chiller is a Blast from the Past (Review)
The proud county of Yorkshire seems to be in the middle of a horror resurgence as, following the low-key chiller The Moor we now have this, an oak-aged folk-horror that isn’t shy about its classical influences from British horrors of yore. Director Daniel Kokotajlo’s mix of occult, supernatural, and psychological […]
Lore (2024): An Entertaining Addition to the British Horror Anthology Tradition (Review)
From Dead of Night in 1945 to The House in 2022, anthologies are a familiar, and usually comforting presence in British horror. There’s much that could be, and likely has been, discussed about how this harks back to short stories from British writers like M. R. James and Charles Dickens, […]
Looking Forward to Fantastic Fest (2024 Curtain Raiser)
The Geek Show has undergone numerous changes and evolutions over the fourteen years since our inception, and these days we’re painting on a much larger canvas that includes genre movies, world cinema, and titles that we feel we can help as they don’t have vast marketing behemoths behind them. This […]
The Beast Within (Fantasia 2024) Familial and Familiar Take on Werewolf Legend (Review)
There’s no attempt to hide what the titular Beast Within is in Alexander J. Farrell’s first horror feature (co-written with Greer Taylor Ellison), which opens with the quote “There are two wolves inside all of us … they’re always at war”, followed by the classic “lone person killed by monster” […]