What better way to celebrate the festive season than with a zombie apocalypse Christmas musical? ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE is ‘A delightful Christmas/horror/comedy/musical hybrid, with a great cast and entertaining gore’ (IGN) directed by John McPhail (Where Do We Go From Here) and is set for its UK Blu-ray debut…
Browsing: Frightfest
UPGRADE **** USA 2018 Dir: Leigh Whannell. 100 mins Leigh Whannell’s second film as director (following the superior INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3) is a hard-edged slice of technophobic sci-fi in which budgetary restrictions work in the film’s favour and obvious thematic parallels to ROBOCOP and Cronenbergian body horror do not distract…
NEKROTRONIC **** Australia 2018 Dir: Kiah Roache-Turner. 98 mins Another confident, crowd-pleasing comic horror from the director of the well-liked WYRMWOOD (co-written with his brother Tristan), Kiah Roache-Turner’s NEKROTRONIC joins a small cycle of killer app movies. In the words of the film’s engaging early animated exposition, “some evil bastard”…
THE FURIES **** Australia 2019 Dir: Tony D’Aquino. 82 mins An archetypal heavy breathing, scythe-wielding masked killer in the woods pursues a wounded young woman. A second masked maniac appears from nowhere to disembowel the first. From its very first sequence, writer-director Tony D’Aquino’s dynamic 21st century revisionist slasher movie…
Linus de Paoli’s A YOUNG MAN WITH HIGH POTENTIAL is a unsettling psychological thriller about a painfully shy graduate student and his increasingly unsettled relationship with a female student. Amanda Plummer (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Pulp Fiction) co-stars. The film had its International Premiere at London’s FrightFest 2018 and…