Reviews
Frightfest 2017 Review: 3rd Night
3rd Night immediately gets my hackles up because the title should be Third Night. Bad, bad grammar. How and ever, the debut feature from British-born, Australia-based writer-director Adam Gravely has ...
Frightfest 2017 Review: Psychopaths
Mickey Keating is so prolific, he’s practically horror’s answer to Xavier Dolan. Almost. Following hot on the heels of last year’s Pat Healy-starring Carnage Park is Psychopaths, the...
Frightfest 2017 Review: To Hell And Back: The Kane Hodder Story
19Kane Hodder is a bonafide Horror Icon who also just so happens to be a complete gent. A documentary charting his rise from bullied kid to Jason Voorhees to genre actor in his own right is a no-brain...
Review: Mother! Leaves A Lot To Be Desired And Falls Short Of Its Lofty Intentions
Mother!, the latest movie from Darren Aronofsky, stars Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall) as Him and Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games, Passengers) as the titular character, one half of...
Frightfest 2017 Review: 68 Kill
“Women are the engine that drives the universe” super-producer Travis Stevens (We Are Still Here, Starry Eyes, Cheap Thrills) told the assembled crowd at Frightfest 2017 when introdu...
Frightfest 2017 Review: The Terror Of Hallow’s Eve
The Terror Of Hallow’s Eve begins with the somewhat cheeky claim that the film was based on true events. As director/co-writer Todd Tucker would explain it, much of what happens in the movie did...
Frightfest 2017 Review: Better Watch Out
Writing about Better Watch Out (formerly Safe Neighbourhood, the previous title referenced in the film by one significant, yet seemingly throwaway line) is borderline impossible. This nifty little fes...
Frightfest 2017 Review: It Stains The Sands Red
Almost fifty years after the release of Romero’s seminal Night Of The Living Dead, the world is still hopelessly devoted to zombies. The popularity of the snooze-inducing The Walking Dead, and i...
Frightfest 2017 Review: Death Note
Adam Wingard, the horror hero behind the likes of You’re Next, The Guest and Blair Witch, has taken quite a battering over his adaptation of super-popular manga Death Note. At the time of writin...