PREY FOR THE DEVIL *** USA 2022 Dir: Daniel Stamm. 93 mins Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) wants to use her past experiences to perform exorcisms, but the Catholic church is against women becoming exorcists. She then comes face to face with a demon entity from her past. This was certainly…
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SHE’S THE FIRST FEMALE EXORCIST… BUT WHO, OR WHAT, CALLED HER? Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers) believes she is answering a calling to be the first female exorcist… but who, or what, called her? In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, Ann seeks out a place at an…
CANDYMAN **** USA 2021 Dir: Nia DaCosta. 91 mins In two lazy sequels to Bernard Rose’s iconic 1992 CANDYMAN, Tony Todd’s extraordinary presence was wasted, the concept cheapened by lame jump scares in FAREWELL TO THE FLESH and taken into slapdash slasher territory for DAY OF THE DEAD. Todd and…
CANDYMAN ***** USA 1992 Dir: Bernard Rose. 92 mins “Your death would be a parable to frighten children with”. The opening story of the fifth volume of “Books of Blood”, Clive Barker’s “The Forbidden” was a bleakly evocative story of urban folklore in a miserabilist vision of a Thatcher-era…
Home Alone goes one step further in director Chris Peckover’s seasonal horror comedy BETTER WATCH OUT, which is getting a nationwide release from Universal Pictures. One of Peter ‘Witchfinder’ Hopkins’s favourite films shown at Frightfest 2017 the film stars an impressive cast including: Levi Miller (Pan, Jasper Jones), Olivia DeJonge…