PREY *** USA 2019 Dir. Franck Khalfoun. 85 mins After Toby’s father is killed by two carjackers right in their own driveway, he is sent on a survivalist retreat as part of a Lost and Found program for troubled teens. With a bag of survival tools, he’s dropped off on…
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I TRAPPED THE DEVIL **** USA 2019 Dir: Josh Lobo. 82 mins Writer-editor-director Josh Lobo’s low-key exercise in dread unfolds almost entirely in one house with four characters. The period is non-specific but with its recurring flickering analogue TV images, we’re guessing the 1970’s or 1980’s. It’s Christmas and there’s…
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…
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…