Category: FrightFest
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REVIEW: Living With Chucky (2022)
dir. Kyra Elise Gardner Directed by the daughter of head puppeteer Tony Gardner, Living With Chucky is an extensive yet endearing deep dive into the worldwide phenomenon of everyone’s favourite murder doll. Covering the creation of Don Mancini’s twisted toy to the various sequels and birth of the Chucky TV series, director Kyra Elise Gardner…
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REVIEW: The Ghosts of Monday (2022)
dir. Francesco Cinquemani There is potential in the set-up for The Ghosts of Monday, as we follow a film crew attempting to restore their fortunes for a failing show by checking into a supernatural locale in Croatia. Unfortunately director Cinquemani’s latest never manages to match the potential such a setting allows. Genre tropes are not a…
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REVIEW: Piggy a.k.a. Cerdita (2022)
dir. Carlota Pereda A young woman named Sara (Laura Galán) is bullied for her weight. Other girls call her “piggy” and it’s made her shy, quiet and suspicious. At the pool one day they nearly drown her before stealing her towel and clothes, but when she’s walking home – cold and embarrassed – Sara sees…
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REVIEW: Swallowed (2022)
dir. Carter Smith Celebrating his move to California to become a porn star, Ben (Cooper Koch) spends one last night partying with best friend Dom (Jose Colon). Concerned about his friend’s financial situation, Dom has a plan to earn some fast cash as a going-away present which involves making a mysterious stop. It’s here that…
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REVIEW: Stalker (2022)
dir. Steve Johnson At first glance Stalker seems to have a simple premise: a woman, the lead in a horror film, and a man, a cameraman on the film, are trapped together in a hotel lift with only occasional mobile service and no other way to reach hotel staff. It can’t be as simple as that,…
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FRIGHTFEST 2022 REVIEW: Follow Her (2022)
dir. Sylvia Caminer Jess Peters (writer Dani Barker) is an aspiring social media star hoping to go viral by secretly filming encounters she experiences through job postings. However despite her online persona, in real life she’s struggling to cope with feeling isolated from her family and the prospect of being kicked out of her apartment.…
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REVIEW: Holy Shit! a.k.a. Ach du Scheisse! (2022)
dir. Lukas Rinker From Edgar Allen Poe though to Spooloos, The Descent and Buried, there’s a long tradition of horror featuring confined spaces. Even for non-claustrophobes the idea of being trapped and unable to move is unnerving, and in horror there’s often the added possibility there could be malicious intent behind such imprisonment. Lukas Rinker’s…
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REVIEW: Torn Hearts (2022)
dir. Brea Grant Tired: horror movies that depict Southerners as inbred killer hillbillies. Wired: director Brea Grant bringing horror to the Southern glitz of rising pop-country stars. Leigh (Alexxis Lemire) and Jordan (an outstanding Abby Quinn) are the titular “Torn Hearts”, a two-piece country duo playing the small stages of Nashville who are ready to hit…
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REVIEW: The Ghost Writer (2022)
dir. Paul Wilkins There’s no shortage of allegory-soaked films that focus on the paralysing fear of creative obstruction, and the horror genre is the perfect place to explore such terrors. In this The Ghost Writer, from writer Guy Fee and co-writer / director Paul Wilkins, makes a valiant effort at tackling such themes in an innovative way…
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REVIEW: Wolf Manor (2022)
dir. Dominic Brunt In a manor house a production crew struggle to finish shooting their schlocky vampire flick: with a luvvie lead, and a rag tag crew, is it any wonder they’ve gone over schedule? But, as we soon learn, the firm deadline for their departure has less to do with being fully booked and more…
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