Turn It Up! international première at FrightFest, 29th August 2026 “A careful combination of vibrations could, if arranged in sequence, produce an unquantifiable amount of energy, tear at the fabric of the universe itself, and in all likelihood, sound pretty cool.” Turn It Up! opens with Dr Pretorious (Julian Richings) heard in voiceover talking about…
[note that, after this review was written, a new murder set-piece, which I have not seen, has been added to the very beginning of Bliss of Evil] With his earlier features Status Quo (2013) and Louie Louie (2018), writer/director Joshua Morris has become associated with romance, but the bed with which his latest feature Bliss…
Its title may suggest a kiddy monster movie, but writer/director Makoto Nagahisa’s feature debut We Are Little Zombies (Wî â Ritoru Zonbîzu) offers a rather different kind of child-oriented horror, where the ADHD ebullience and wild desultoriness of youthful energy serve, at least in part, to disguise a much deeper existential, explicitly Kafka-esque dread. We…