Category: FrightFest
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REVIEW: Good Boy (2022)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Written and directed by Viljar Bøe When free spirit student Sigrid (Katrine Lovise Øpstad Fredriksen) matches on a dating app with charming millionaire Christian (Gard Løkke) everything…
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REVEIW: Founders Day (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Directed by Erik Bloomquist. Written by Erik and Carson Bloomquist. Every holiday deserves a horror that can be watched annually to mark the occasion, and Founders Day…
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REVIEW: I Am Monsters! (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Written and directed by Nicholas Vince I Am Monsters! is the film version of Nicholas Vince’s 2019 one-man stage show of the same name. Divided into five acts…
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REVIEW: Failure! (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Written and directed by Alex Kahuam Succession meets Boiling Point with intermittently explosive results in Failure!, an impressively claustrophobic single-take crime thriller anchored by a laser-focused performance from genre legend Ted…
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REVIEW: My Mother’s Eyes (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Directed by Takeshi Kushida Opening his second feature by fulfilling its title, writer/director Takeshi Kushida presents a close-up focus on the eyes of Hitomi (Akane Ono) while…
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REVIEW: Pareidolia (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like the one being covered here wouldn’t exist. Directed by Aaron Truss. Written by Aidan Truss An American lecturer living in England, Sinead (Diane Franklin, Amityville II) gives her students an assignment…
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REVIEW: Sympathy for the Devil (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Directed by Yuval Adler. Written by Luke Paradise The Driver (Joel Kinnaman) rushes to the hospital to be with his wife, who is going into labour. As…
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REVIEW: T-Blockers (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Directed by Alice Maio Mackay. Alice Maio Mackay & Benjamin Pahl Robinson This love letter to Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and The Faculty (1998) follows…
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REVIEW: Mancunian Man (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Directed by Jake West In the 1980s there was a star audiences may – or may not – have heard of: variously a writer, composer, actor, bouncer,…
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REVIEW: The Blue Rose (2023)
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, films like this one wouldn’t exist. Written and directed by George Baron From its “old Hollywood” opening titles and lush, orchestral theme, it’s evident that The Blue Rose – the directorial debut of George…
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