EXTRACURRICULAR **** Canada 2018 Dir: Ray Xue. 90 mins “Two does not count as a massacre…” This assured feature debut for Rax Xue opens in a familiar fashion with a savage sequence of a young couple assailed by a quartet of Day-Glo mask wearing strangers…before unravelling so we can spend…
Browsing: Frightfest
Frightfest Presents the brutal and shocking home invasion horror HELL IS WHERE THE HOME IS, available from 16th December. This slasher film with a twist stars Angela Trimbur (The Good Place), Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars) and Fairuza Balk (The Craft), from the Executive Producer of OldBoy. Synopsis: Two…
A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND ***** UK / Ireland / Belgium 2019 Dir: Abner Pastoll. 97 mins “If you want to get anywhere in this life you have to be a bitch”. So advises tough but loyal mother Jane Brennan to her recently widowed daughter (Sarah Bolger) early…
ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE **** UK 2017 Dir: John McPhail. 107 mins The first ever Scottish Christmas-set zombie musical, in which the eponymous zombie apocalypse hits just as the appealing Anna (Ella Hunt) is planning her gap year. Meanwhile, fascist headmaster Paul Kaye (relishing his teeth-clenching bastardry) keeps a miserable…
WHITE CHAMBER *** UK 2018 Dir: Paul Raschid. 89 mins A grim Brexit-era sci-fi movie using the visual language of early 21st century horror: the woke-up-in-a-strange-room-and-harassed-by-a-mystery-puppet-master gambit of the torture movie cycle and acid-scarred, feral characters frantically chomping off their own fingers like the “Rage” victims of the 28 DAYS…