Minore had its European première on Sat 26th Aug at FrightFest Some way into Konstantinos Koutsoliotas’ Minore, an elderly grandmother (Efi Papatheodorou) visits the psychologist Dr Lakis Portokalakis (Alexandros Romanos Lizardos) in his office, sent there by her family to get help for the ‘unsavoury dreams’ that have been keeping her up at night. Alarmed…
Nightworld first published by SciFiNow Director Patricio Valladares is no stranger to FrightFest. His Hidden in the Woods (2012) – which he shot in his native Chile and then remade two years later in English – outraged some and delighted others with its shock tactics and constant lapses of taste, in a festival which many…
As films like Deathwatch, The Devil’s Rock, the Outpost franchise, Frankenstein’s Army, Overlord and many others amply demonstrate, films pitched as ‘trapped in a bunker with infernal abominations’ form a (literal) subgenre, exposing the monstrousness of the military mentality. Falling neatly into this category, Matt Mitchell’s original The Rizen (2017) showed cold warriors struggling to…