Tubi FrightFest Halloween 2026 takes place Fri 30th to Sat 31st October Although FrightFest is perhaps most associated with the August Bank Holiday when its main annual event takes place, there is no date in the calendar better suited to its preoccupations than Halloween – the night when the barrier between the material and the…
Magpie had its UK première at FrightFest Halloween, 1 November 2024 There is a long-running cinematic convention whereby if a woman stares a little too long into a mirror, or even better into a triptych of mirrors, or best of all into a mirror whose cracked pane distorts what it reflects, then what is being…
Final Cut (Coupez!) first published by SciFiNow Final Cut (Coupez!) opens with a conflicted young woman (Matilda Lutz) fending off a young man (Finnegan Oldfield) with an axe, while trying to reconcile herself to the fact that he is no longer her boyfriend but a braindead zombie. It is a hackneyed, clichéd scenario, the patchy…
From its opening wide shot of the desert, writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s feature debut Revenge allows the ochre of the rocky landscape and the deep azure of the sky dominate. Orange-and-teal is the contrasting colour palette favoured by this millennium’s commercial film posters and even the films themselves – which is to say that Revenge appears…
First published by Sight & Sound, April 2017 Review: Ever since Koji Suzuki published his 1991 horror novel Ring, it has spread as virally as the haunted videotape at its centre. Its best known versions were Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998) and Gore Verbinski’s US remake The Ring (2002), but there was also an earlier Japanese…