FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #4 first published by Twitch (now ScreenAnarchy) Titles featured: Summer Camp, The Lazarus Effect, Banjo (aka My Bloody Banjo), Hostile, Awaiting, Goddess of Love, Suspension, Bite Summer Camp (world première) There must be something in the Andalusian water to explain the ability of Spanish filmmakers to create so much genre cinema of the…
FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #3 first published by Twitch (now ScreenAnarchy) Titles featured: Frankenstein, Another Me, Inner Demon, Road Games, Farhope Tower, Scherzo Diabolico, These Final Hours Four days in, and FrightFest has entered that bleary-eyed state of exhaustion where everything, on or off screen, seems hallucinatory, and conversations outside the cinema take on a rambling, incoherent…
FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #2 first published by Twitch (now ScreenAnarchy) Titles featured: Bait, Some Kind of Hate, Deathgasm, Future Shock!The Story of 2000AD, Night of the Living Deb, Contracted: Phase II FrightFest has finally achieved the greatest accolade that can ever be conferred on a genre festival: it was picketed by politely determined Christian fundamentalists,…
FrightFest 2015 Dispatch #1 first published by Twitch (now ScreenAnarchy) (titles featured: Cherry Tree, Stung, The Unfolding, Never Let Go, Jeruzalem, Bloodsucking Bastards, The Entity, The Sand, Zombie Fight Club) So here we go again. 76 features (and sundry shorts and special events) spread over six screens in four and a half days. The very best – and some of the…
Never Let Go first published by Twitch (now known as Screen Anarchy) Bereaved, pill-popping Lisa Brennan (Angela Dixon) is taking a much-needed holiday in an unnamed North African country when a gang of Eastern European men abducts her baby girl, not realising that the mother they have targeted comes with a special set of skills –…