Frightfest poster revealed!...Graham explains: “While I was looking for a theme for this year's poster, I ran with the idea of Magic. At a recent visit to the incredible Cinema Museum in Kennington (one of my favourite haunts) I was admiring their extensive collection, among which I noticed a number of Victorian 'Magic Lanterns'.This formed... Continue Reading →
Film4 Frightfest Announces Line-up for Halloween All-Nighter
Bring your popcorn and your caffine - Frightfest All Nighter!The FrightFest All-Nighter 14 returns to its spiritual home, The Prince Charles Cinema, on Saturday October 25, with five killer titles, including the world premiere of Anthony DiBlasi’s LAST SHIFT.We kick off with a special preview of The Vicious Brothers EXTRATERRESTRIAL, a fine blend of ‘Close... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Harvest
@sjdavis_1982 bathes in the slow burn of The Harvest...Director John McNaughton, who made his name with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer back in 1986 and then later in the 90’s with Wild Things, has said that his latest, The Harvest, is very much in keeping with a fairy tale, and it’s easy to see in... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: The Signal
Here's @sjdavis_1982 and his verdict on The Signal...The Signal comes from across the pond with some excellent word-of-mouth. A head-scratching, slow burning sci-fi rather than one concerned with explosions or green goo, it has certainly made an impact when it has been shown across this year’s festival circuit. Is it worthy of all the fuss bewstowed upon... Continue Reading →
Movie Review: Wolfcop
@sjdavis1982 gives his verdict on WolfCop...If you have seen the trailer for WolfCop, you may have had an inkling as to what all the fuss has been about across the festival circuit. If you haven’t, you are in for one hell of a treat. A true cult classic in the making, Lowell Dean’s film is as... Continue Reading →
Frightfest’s big guest lineup!
ROBERT ENGLUND GETS HIS CLAWS INTO FRIGHTFESTRISING STAR MAIKA MONROE MAKES ‘GUEST’ APPREARANCE AND COMIC-BOOK LEGEND ALAN MOORE GIVES RARE PUBLIC INTERVIEW.This year’s Film4 FrightFest guest list brings together the great, the grand and the gifted as over 100 filmmakers, performers, writers and producers from all over the world make their way to the Vue... Continue Reading →
News: Horror Channel to celebrate FrightFest
Horror Channel’s film highlights for August are to include a celebration of the annual FrightFest event... Frightfest is the UK’s leading horror and fantasy film festival. In the week that FrightFest celebrates its 15th year, Horror Channel presenter Emily Booth chooses her favourite movies from festivals past, which she’ll also introduce. Among them are Guillermo... Continue Reading →
Film4 FrightFest 2014 – Programme Update
Frightfest re-schedules three films and adds another!IMPORTANT INFORMATION - 18th July 2014Ahead of this year’s single tickets going on sale tomorrow, 19th July, we have a few changes to the schedule for August's event. Three films are moving plus we have an addition to the line-up.The reason for the changes is that the release date... Continue Reading →
Frightfest screening twenty short films!
Film4 FrightFest will be screening a record twenty short films...Twenty shorts films, Twelve of them world premieres at this year’s August event at the Vue West End, Leicester Sq.Spearheading this year’s selection is the world premiere of SHOW PIECES, three tales of terror written by Alan Moore, the genius 2000 AD writer behind WATCHMEN, THE... Continue Reading →