The Heretiks world première at Fantastic Fest, 19th Sept 2026 “We’re all a little pagan,” 13-year-old Mabel (Ava Mae Seidensticker) tells her college-age sister Ada (Josie Juliette Wert), a little way into Gregg Bishop’s The Heretiks. Mabel has come home early from her Middle School, suspended for two days for turning up in full skull…
“I don’t want to be here without you,” teen Sloane (Olivia Holt) tells her older sister Lily (Joelle Farrow), in what is chronologically one of the first scenes in writer/director Adam MacDonald’s This Is Not a Test. Sloane knows that Lily, now graduated from their high school in small-town Cortege, will soon fly the coop,…
Feast first published by Film4 Summary: John Gulager’s feature debut is a monster movie with genre-savvy bite to match its big, blood-stained teeth. Review: “C’mon, gimme some action!”, yells Bozo (Balthazar Getty), an all-round ‘asshole’ looking for yet another sucker to hustle at pool in the local redneck bar – and action is not long in coming….
Last Straw had its UK première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2024. Last Straw opens near its end, with an aftermath: a tableau in montage showing the interiors of a classic old (faded, even) diner, like a blast from the past of lost Americana. This is also, clearly, the scene of a recent massacre, with blood…
Jericho Ridge had its UK première at the Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Will Gilbey has written both Rise of the Footsoldier (2007) and A Lonely Place to Die (2011) for his brother Julian, and Once Upon a Time in London (2019) for Simon Rumley, but Jericho Ridge is his first feature script that he has…
Blue Light (aka Don’t Turn Out The Lights) had its world première on Saturday 28th Oct at the Halloween FrightFest Blue Light (aka Don’t Turn Out The Lights) opens with the sound of a little girl singing The Wheels on the Bus. As Carrie (Bella DeLong) approaches the girl from behind and compliments her voice, 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…
Malum opens with a diptych of horrific sequences from 2022. In the first, police-seized footage shows four abducted young women being terrorised in the barn of a pig farm by the members of a Manson-esque cult whose leader John Michael Malum (an understated Chaney Morrow) evidently causes the video to blur and distort by his…
Night of the Bastard had its international première at FrightFest 2022 Erik Boccio’s Night of the Bastard opens in 1978, as Andy (Luke B. Carlson) and his heavily pregnant partner Lily (Avery Joy Davis) drive out to the Californian desert for a baby shower with Andy’s recently moved brother Chuck, Chuck’s wife Michelle and their…
By Night’s End opens with an external wide shot of a suburban, single-storey home at night. A ‘For Sale’ sign in the yard is briefly illuminated in red and blue by a passing patrol car, and then a man approaches from the foreground and enters the house. Shortly afterwards we see him again, half-jogging half-limping…
Jackals first published by SciFiNow The Powells – father Andrew (Jonathan Schaech), his divorced wife Kathy (Deborah Kara Unger), their sons Justin (Ben Sullivan) and Campbell (Nick Roux), Justin’s former girlfriend Samantha (Chelsea Ricketts), and Justin and Samantha’s baby daughter Zoe – are having a reunion in their vacation cabin. This, however, is no ordinary…