Brea(d)th taken: six eclectic titles from The Arrow FrightFest 2022 includes mop-up capsules of the following titles: Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge, Candy Land, Mastemah, Family Dinner, The Price We Pay, Huesera For genre fans, the August Bank Holiday weekend is all about FrightFest, where freaks from all over congregate in Leicester Square for…
Candy, corny, culty: FrightFest Halloween All-Dayer 2019 first published by Sight & Sound Capsules of: Candy Corn; Trick; Uncanny Annie; We Summon The Darkness; Scare Package; Swallow Dedicating a day to the rarefied joys of genre, this annual FrightFest event was unified to a degree by twinned preoccupations with nostalgia and Halloween itself. Though contemporary,…
Sometimes, to understand the great American horror story, you need to go back to the source. Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door begins with a quote from Edgar Allen Poe (which supplies the origin of the film’s title), and with that most familiar of the genre’s formative primal scenes: a little boy in bed, frightened…