Based on the phenomenon of the same name, Broadcast Signal Intrusion follows video archivist James (Harry Shum Jr) as he discovers a series of eerie video clips featuring a masked figure, which is incredibly jarring as they flash up and interrupt cheerful, innocuous clips from back in the day. Unsurprisingly, James is disturbed yet intrigued […]Read More
Loss of identity is a common fear for many, whether that’s memory loss caused by medical issues like dementia, or whether it’s forced upon you to create a collective homogenous society. The latter has been explored before in films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which expertly blended sci-fi and horror to explore what […]Read More
Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It was a bit of a FrightFest wildcard, a wacky looking film from Kazakhstan which follows the misadventures of three men on a fishing trip gone very wrong. The best way to describe it would be a very gory version of Carry On, attempting to blend horror and comedy in a […]Read More
Inspired by film noir, Francesco Cinquemani and George Gallo’s thriller Eye for An Eye (also known as The Poison Rose) follows Carson Phillips (John Travolta), an ex-football star turned PI who takes on a missing person’s case.Read More
What do you get when you cross a group of young adults on a road trip with a deranged family who live in the woods? The answer is Butchers, a Canadian horror film that played at this year’s FrightFest. It’s not an original plot by any means, and it’s hard not to compare it to the […]Read More
Nuclear caught my interest immediately, with a synopsis featuring an ominous nuclear power plant and George MacKay on the cast list. After being blown away by his performance in 1917, I couldn’t wait to see him in the horror genre. In this film, he plays a nameless ‘boy’ who our protagonist meets after a traumatic event.Read More
