The Death of Us world première in the First Blood strand at FrightFest, 29th August 2026 The Death of Us begins with a distressed Ellisa (Angela Elise Munnoch), evidently a psychiatric patient, terrified by the approach of something that her nurse (Meghan Adara) cannot see. “There’s nothing there,” insists the nurse, only to look on…
Never Have I Ever had its world première at FrightFest 2024, 25 August There is an extremely brief prologue showing a bloody spade and an equally bloody woman screaming into a mirror, just to let us know from the outset that we are headed to some very dark places – but the opening act of…
Cara had its world première at FrightFest 2024, 25 August, and is set for a digital release on 17 Feb 2025 “Is there something on your mind?”, overworked psychiatric counsellor Jane (Donna Louise Bryan) asks Cara (Ellie O’Hara), near the beginning of the film that bears Cara’s name. It has been a while since Cara…
Isaac had its world première on Sat 26 Aug in the First Blood Strand at FrightFest Isaac opens with a primal scene. Its first shot moves at ground level through sun-dappled wheat stalks – a Malickian image of homespun, idyllic nostalgia, and of the melancholy that comes with Paradise lost. As though to underscore the…
How To Kill Monsters had its world première on Fri 25th Aug at FrightFest It begins with the end. Jamie Lancaster (Lyndsey Craine) emerges from a cabin in the woods, with her Little Red Riding Hood costume bathed in blood and a chainsaw purring in her hands. She is a classic final girl – the…
Walking Against The Rain first published by SciFiNow Scott Lyus’ Walking Against The Rain opens with text which sounds like a quote from the Biblical Book of Revelation (although it is in fact of the filmmaker’s invention), about the defiant ones knowing ‘great pain’, and beasts risen from the abyss to destroy men while leaving…