We conclude our frightfest coverage for 2022 with a look at the short films that featured as part of the events discovery screen. For the full down of all the shorts that were featured, we have a handy article for your reading pleasure HERE. Besides being a nice palette cleanser, […]
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Frightfest 2022: Incredible but true (Festival Review)
Quentin Dupieux is a fascinating multihyphenate. For my generation, he emerged with the puppet Flat Eric and his dance single, flat beat. Since then, he emerged as a filmmaker and his first notable cut-through came in 2010’s Rubber A.K.A. The killer tyre movie, and in the decade since he’s continued […]
Orchestrator of Storms (Frightfest 2022)(Review)
Many directors, namely European cult ones, have fallen by the wayside in the throes of time. Very few of them have had such a dramatic positive shift in public – albeit public in a cult horror way – opinion than that of French surrealist Jean Rollin. Very much a filmmaker […]
FrightFest 2022: The Leech (Festival Review)
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, […]
New Blood Selects Eight Projects for Top Industry Professionals panel at Frightfest
This year’s New Blood participants have been identified and will attend Arrow FrightFest for a special mentoring session in Central London at the festival’s opening on Thursday 25th August. These intrepid filmmakers will pitch their feature script ideas to a panel of industry professionals. After a record number of submissions, […]
10 of the Best theme songs in animated shows!
Lots of TV shows have great theme songs and animated shows are no exception. Music taste is of course a very subjective and personal thing. So instead of attempting to present a ‘comprehensive’ list, our podcasters on the Dreaming Machine have each picked their personal “best theme songs”, no matter […]
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 […]
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 […]
LEGEND reveals sizzling summer premieres and horrific delights from THE VINTAGE VAULT
Having transformed from Horror Channel, Legend delivers a delicious mix of classic horror, sci-fi, thriller, action, fantasy and suspense titles. Saturday nights on Legend in August are trigger-happy, with four action-packed premieres. First up is the channel premiere of AN EYE FOR AN EYE, a classic Western revenge drama by […]
Classic Film Kid: The Godfather (1972) & Part II (1974)(Review)
Hello everyone, it’s the Classic Film Kid and I’ve decided that this will be the last article I do under that name. I am still going to keep writing, never fear, but I’ve always had the itch to talk about more things other than classic films and considering I am […]