A well-meaning Catholic priest, desperate to act out the pinnacle of good samaritan cheer and Christmas charity, inadvertently allows a drifter and his girlfriend to take refuge in his deceased mother’s house for the holidays. Father David soon realises, that taking in strangers may not have been his best plan, […]
From the Festivals
Arrow FrightFest 2022 announces Short Film Programme
Since 2004, Arrow FrightFest has showcased the best in genre short films from the UK and around the world. This year is no exception, as eight countries and three continents are represented at this year’s festival. This year’s selection, which includes eight world premieres, unleashes the latest from upcoming and […]
Glasgow Frightfest 2022 – A Film Festival in Review
Glasgow FrightFest 2020 was one of the last film festivals to take place in BC (Before COVID), and the subsequent two years saw film festivals along with so much more turn online. In March 2022, FrightFest Glasgow returned with a vengeance, screening 12 films over three days at the beautiful […]
Homebound (2021) Claustrophobic Debut Horror (Glasgow Fright Fest Review)
During a horror movie, it is common practice for the audience to urge a character to run away. Our level of engagement may well be influenced by how characters respond to threatening situations. Respond sensibly and we’re on board; respond stupidly, as is all too often the case, and we […]
Mandrake (2022) Unbalanced yet promising Irish Folk Horror (Glasgow Fright Fest Review)
Horror is a genre with many conventions, and adherence or non-adherence to these conventions are what can make or break a horror film. Slow and suggestive can be more effective than fast and furious; commitment to a straightforward premise may work better than a set of convoluted and unnecessary elements. […]
UPDATED Glasgow FrightFest 2022 Programme
Following certain world events, FrightFest has changed its line-up slightly. Here is the revised line-up, offering even more ghoulish delights! THURS 10 MARCH – GFT Screen 1 21:00 NIGHT’S END (UK Premiere) Director: Jennifer Reeder. Cast: Geno Walker, Kate Arrington, Felonious Munk, Michael Shannon. USA 2022, 81 mins, 18. WORLD PREMIERE FrightFest favourite […]
Signature Brings the Horror to Glasgow Film Festival!
Dark and intense Scottish thriller A Banquet plays on 5/6th March at the GFT for the Glasgow Film Festival, before going to cinemas and digital platforms on 11th March. Review coming soon Cert 15, 97mins Synopsis: A Banquet is an unsettling, thought-provoking and hyper-tense psychological thriller from director Ruth Paxton. The film stars Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil franchise, Luther), Jessica […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2022 announces bumper Glasgow Film Festival line-up
It’s back! After being one of the last stages of normalcy before Covid, the UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival returns to the Glasgow Film Theatre. This frightfully fantastic venue has been FrightFest’s second home for 17 glorious years has been, and now it returns as part of the […]
If Beale Street Could Talk – London Film Festival 2018
“I am equally moved by that moment in Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train when the young Japanese couple arrive in the train station in Memphis only to encounter what appears to be a homeless black man, a drifter, but who turns to them and speaks in Japanese. The interaction takes only a moment, […]
Roma to Peterloo – London Film Festival 2018
In Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, two of the main characters are briefly caught in the middle of Mexico City during a massacre. The event is not named, the perpetrators barely identified except for one specific, named (fictional) character, who we have seen in a few earlier scenes. It is brief and […]