FRIGHTFEST 2016: DAY THREE ABATTOIR *** USA 2016 Dir: Darren Lynn Bousman. 98 mins Conceived as a Bogart & Bacall hybrid horror movie, this modern-set curio has a noir-ish emphasis on smoky rooms, methodically uncovered secrets and old-school snappy dialogue. Newspaper reporter Jessica Lowndes talks and looks like she’s from…
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FRIGHTFEST 2016: DAY TWO THE CHAMBER **** UK 2016 Dir: Ben Parker. 88 mins An intense feature debut from Ben Parker, in which veteran Captain Johannes Kuhnke leads his ageing submarine “The Aurora” on a secretive retrieval mission at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. As the nature of their…
FRIGHTFEST 2016: DAY ONE MY FATHER, DIE **** USA 2016 Dir: Sean Brosnan. 102 mins Sean Brosnan’s feature directorial debut, co-produced by his Dad Pierce, is a savagely violent Southern Gothic straddling the line between arthouse and grindhouse, and evidently influenced by everyone from filmmakers Walter Hill and Simon Rumley…