DARK ENCOUNTER ** UK 2019 Dir: Carl Strathie. 98 mins Here’s an ill-conceived British attempt at an American-set sci-fi movie featuring a bunch of British actors with American accents. It’s 1982 and in Pennsylvania, eight-year-old Maisie goes missing from her home while her parents are out for dinner. The girl’s…
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EXTRACURRICULAR **** Canada 2018 Dir: Ray Xue. 90 mins “Two does not count as a massacre…” This assured feature debut for Rax Xue opens in a familiar fashion with a savage sequence of a young couple assailed by a quartet of Day-Glo mask wearing strangers…before unravelling so we can spend…
Frightfest Presents the brutal and shocking home invasion horror HELL IS WHERE THE HOME IS, available from 16th December. This slasher film with a twist stars Angela Trimbur (The Good Place), Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars) and Fairuza Balk (The Craft), from the Executive Producer of OldBoy. Synopsis: Two…
Jack McHenry’s genre-bending directorial debut HERE COMES HELL is coming to DVD after a smash hit festival run. Best described as THE OLD DARK HOUSE meets THE EVIL DEAD, the stylish horror-comedy is an homage to classic horror, with a bloody twist. Filmed in black and white, HERE COMES HELL…
HERE COMES HELL *** UK 2018 Dir: Jack McHenry. 80 mins Set in the 1930’s, shot in Lincoln and filmed in black and white in Academy ratio, this opens as a riff on Agatha Christie-infused old dark house murder mysteries and incorporates an initial straight-to-camera curtain-raising intro in the spirit…