Blue Light

Blue Light (2023)

Blue Light had its world première on Saturday 28th Oct at the Halloween FrightFest Blue Light 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 girl turns around and instead of smiling or chatting, stares menacingly…

He Never Left

He Never Left (2023)

He Never Left had its international première on Friday 27th Oct at the Halloween FrightFest As text reveals at the beginning of He Never Left, a masked menace known as the “Pale Face” killer terrorised Larsen City (‘played’ by Fairview, Utah) for over a decade, before suddenly all the murders and disappearances stopped dead in…

Departing Seniors

Departing Seniors (2023)

Departing Seniors had its world première on Mon 28th Aug at FrightFest “You wish that all those fucking assholes would die horrifically gruesome deaths via telekinetic vengeance,” Bianca (Ireon Roach) tells her BFF Javier (Ignacio Diaz-Silveiro). “At least in Carrie all the high school assholes get what they deserve, right?”  Bianca’s words carefully situate Clare…

Founders Day

Founders Day (2023)

Founders Day had its international première on Mon 28th Aug at FrightFest There is a scene in Founders Day where high schoolers Lilly (Emilia McCarthy) and Adam (Devin Druid) are called to the font of the class by their old history and civics teacher Mr Len Jackson (William Russ) to debate the thesis “Better a…

Creeping Death

Creeping Death (2023)

Creeping Death had its world première on Fri 25th Aug at FrightFest It is Halloween in small-town Ashville, New York, and teenaged Tim Garner (Matt Sampere, also writer/director/editor/composer of The Creeping Death) is conflicted. He wants to go out that night with his friends Nate (Hunter Kohl), Tramer (Ian Brown), Isaac (K Cody Hunt), Isaac’s…

That's A Wrap

That’s A Wrap (2023)

 That’s A Wrap had its international première on Fri 25 Aug at FrightFest Marcel Walz’s That’s A Wrap begins, as it indeed it ends, with an actress sat in a dressing room before a mirror. In the opening scene, Alexis (Cerina Vincent) puts on makeup, with the poster for her latest film – also entitled…

Poundcake

Poundcake (2023)

Poundcake had its international première on Fri 25 Aug at FrightFest Someone is terrorising the streets of contemporary New York City. Like Jason Voorhees, (who notoriously visited Manhattan), Michael Myers, or Leatherface, this pattern killer comes with his own iconic headgear (a gimp mask) and weapon (chain). Still, far from slicing up young co-eds, or…

Faceless After Dark

Faceless After Dark (2023)

Faceless After Dark had its world première on Fri 25th Aug at FrightFest Faceless After Dark opens with a picture of trauma. A woman (Jenna Kanell) sits, staring straight into the camera, her face anguished, with blood visible in her hairline. She is strobe-lit (in striking bisexual colours), and her distressing image is further disrupted…

Lore

Lore (2023)

Lore had its world première on Thurs 24th Aug at FrightFest Four friends who regularly attend weekend events together – Mark (Dean Bone), Dan (Miles Mitchell), Donna (Sally Collett) and Sally (Samatha Neale) – get a bit lost as they hike to a ‘creepy forest’. They are greeted by their host Darwin (the ever amazing…

Punch

Punch (2023)

Punch had its world première on Thurs 24th Aug at FrightFest Set in an unnamed English seaside town, and filmed in Hastings, East Sussex, Punch may come with all the trappings of English nostalgia – the cliffs, the beach, the fair, the pier, the fish and chips – but there is something rotten in this…

Terrifier 2

Terrifier 2 (2022)

Terrifier 2 first published by VODzilla.co Near the beginning of writer/director Damien Leone’s Terrifier (2016), Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) wrote his name on the wall of a pizzeria’s toilet using his own excrement for ink – and near the beginning of Leone’s Terrifier 2, Art again writes his name, and again spreads the…