The organisers of Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow have announced that, despite continuing Covid-19 restrictions, the festival will return Digitally this year to present a virtual six-pack of tasty titles; an extravaganza of the dark arts that will leave you stirred, shaken and shocked.
There will be six online presentations, including the UK premiere of Kyle Rankin’s controversial high school siege drama Run Hide Fight, starring Isabel May as a fiercely independent student taking on a quartet of invading shooters, and the UK premiere of Out Of This World (Hors Du Monde), a disturbing, compelling study of obsession from brilliant new French director Marc Fouchard. It boasts a stunning performance by Kevin Mischel as a mentally-challenged musician turned Uber driver. A few years back Here Comes Hell, a Black & White mystery thriller, was a FrightFest Glasgow sensation, and The Woman With Leopard Shoes (LA Femme Aux Chaussures Leopard) is another...
There will be six online presentations, including the UK premiere of Kyle Rankin’s controversial high school siege drama Run Hide Fight, starring Isabel May as a fiercely independent student taking on a quartet of invading shooters, and the UK premiere of Out Of This World (Hors Du Monde), a disturbing, compelling study of obsession from brilliant new French director Marc Fouchard. It boasts a stunning performance by Kevin Mischel as a mentally-challenged musician turned Uber driver. A few years back Here Comes Hell, a Black & White mystery thriller, was a FrightFest Glasgow sensation, and The Woman With Leopard Shoes (LA Femme Aux Chaussures Leopard) is another...
- 1/18/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Blackmore showcased her writer-director debut ‘Tales From The Lodge’.
Abigail Blackmore, writer-director of the comedy horror film Tales From The Lodge, has won the Screen FrightFest Genre Rising Star award for 2019.
Blackmore received the award at the Cineworld Leicester Square on Monday August 26, as part of the closing day of FrightFest.
Her debut feature Tales From The Lodge is set in an isolated English woodland dwelling, where five old university friends meet to scatter their drowned companion’s ashes.
Screen’s contributing editor Nikki Baughan, who judged the five-strong shortlisted, praised Blackmore as a filmmaker who “not only showcases vision and flair behind the camera,...
Abigail Blackmore, writer-director of the comedy horror film Tales From The Lodge, has won the Screen FrightFest Genre Rising Star award for 2019.
Blackmore received the award at the Cineworld Leicester Square on Monday August 26, as part of the closing day of FrightFest.
Her debut feature Tales From The Lodge is set in an isolated English woodland dwelling, where five old university friends meet to scatter their drowned companion’s ashes.
Screen’s contributing editor Nikki Baughan, who judged the five-strong shortlisted, praised Blackmore as a filmmaker who “not only showcases vision and flair behind the camera,...
- 8/27/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
During the inaugural episode of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Creative Processing podcast, Rian Johnson talked about originality in films and whether wearing the film’s inspirations on its sleeves affects the value of the film itself. While some movies do lose themselves in the things they’re trying to pay homage to or parody, sometimes you get a brilliant […]
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- 8/26/2019
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Nominees include Rebecca Rogers for her role in ‘Stalked’.
Four directors and one actor are on the five-person shortlist for the 2019 FrightFest Screen Genre Rising Star Award.
This year’s event is the 20th edition, and runs from August 22 to 26 at cinemas in Leicester Square, London.
Nominees for the Genre Rising Star award include Rebecca Rogers, who takes the lead role in Justin Edgar’s Stalked. Rogers plays Sam, a former Royal Marine Commando and single mother who wakes up disoriented in a deserted factory and must evade an invisible foe.
Writer-director-producer Fredi ‘Kruga’ Nwaka is nominated for his debut feature Are We Dead Yet?...
Four directors and one actor are on the five-person shortlist for the 2019 FrightFest Screen Genre Rising Star Award.
This year’s event is the 20th edition, and runs from August 22 to 26 at cinemas in Leicester Square, London.
Nominees for the Genre Rising Star award include Rebecca Rogers, who takes the lead role in Justin Edgar’s Stalked. Rogers plays Sam, a former Royal Marine Commando and single mother who wakes up disoriented in a deserted factory and must evade an invisible foe.
Writer-director-producer Fredi ‘Kruga’ Nwaka is nominated for his debut feature Are We Dead Yet?...
- 7/18/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
The full line-up for this year's Arrow Video Frightfest has been revealed, with previously announced headliners Come To Daddy and A Good Woman Is Hard To Find joined by Guillermo Del Toro-produced Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. The Soska Sisters will be there to introduce their new take on David Cronenberg classic Rabid, while the legendary Dario Argento will present a special screening of his classic Tenebrae.
In all, the festival will feature 78 films from 14 different countries, including 20 world premières. Further highlights include genre-bending thriller Freaks, prairie-based chiller The Wind and 'Downton Abbey meets Evil Dead' comedy Here Comes Hell.
"Over the last two decades we have tirelessly introduced our committed audiences to every trend, every new talent and every innovation that has put horror back in the collective cinephile conscious," said co-director Alan Jones. "Even after 20 years.
The full line-up for this year's Arrow Video Frightfest has been revealed, with previously announced headliners Come To Daddy and A Good Woman Is Hard To Find joined by Guillermo Del Toro-produced Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. The Soska Sisters will be there to introduce their new take on David Cronenberg classic Rabid, while the legendary Dario Argento will present a special screening of his classic Tenebrae.
In all, the festival will feature 78 films from 14 different countries, including 20 world premières. Further highlights include genre-bending thriller Freaks, prairie-based chiller The Wind and 'Downton Abbey meets Evil Dead' comedy Here Comes Hell.
"Over the last two decades we have tirelessly introduced our committed audiences to every trend, every new talent and every innovation that has put horror back in the collective cinephile conscious," said co-director Alan Jones. "Even after 20 years.
- 7/4/2019
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stars: Margaret Clunie, Timothy Renouf, Tom Bailey, Jessica Webber, Charlie Robb, Robert Llewellyn, Nicholas Le Prevost, Jasper Britton, Maureen Bennett | Written by Jack McHenry, Alice Sidgwick | Directed by Jack McHenry
Filmed in black and white, with cut-glass British accents and a dodgy American in the cocktail party mix, a sophisticated 1930s soiree at an isolated country mansion descends into carnage, gore and demonic possession as rivalries and old friendships are put to the test when a gateway to Hell opens up.
Imagine – if you will – that at some point during his illustrious career, schlockmeister William Castle decided to take a trip to England to shoot a film about demonic possession; and then imagine if Castle managed to do Evil Dead, complete with buckets of blood and some fantastic (if slightly Ott) gore and monster effects Before Sam Raimi did Evil Dead. Than imagine whilst in England he happened to see...
Filmed in black and white, with cut-glass British accents and a dodgy American in the cocktail party mix, a sophisticated 1930s soiree at an isolated country mansion descends into carnage, gore and demonic possession as rivalries and old friendships are put to the test when a gateway to Hell opens up.
Imagine – if you will – that at some point during his illustrious career, schlockmeister William Castle decided to take a trip to England to shoot a film about demonic possession; and then imagine if Castle managed to do Evil Dead, complete with buckets of blood and some fantastic (if slightly Ott) gore and monster effects Before Sam Raimi did Evil Dead. Than imagine whilst in England he happened to see...
- 3/4/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Ahead of the World premiere of the stand-out period horror comedy Here Comes Hell at Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow 2019, director Jack McHenry tells us about the challenges of a £22,000 budget. casting his mum and why nothing beats puppets and real blood.
Here Comes Hell is to receive its world premiere at Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow. Excited or what?
It’s amazing! I made this movie for people like me, people who like horror movies and crazy genre films. It’s the perfect place to premiere this kind of movie, as horror audiences are the most open minded movie-goers, they’re not turned off by low budgets or films made by first time directors. They just want an exciting cinematic experience.
The film started life as a Kickstarter campaign. Were you pleased with the outcome?
We shot a short trailer and a pitch video. That was the worst part for me,...
Here Comes Hell is to receive its world premiere at Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow. Excited or what?
It’s amazing! I made this movie for people like me, people who like horror movies and crazy genre films. It’s the perfect place to premiere this kind of movie, as horror audiences are the most open minded movie-goers, they’re not turned off by low budgets or films made by first time directors. They just want an exciting cinematic experience.
The film started life as a Kickstarter campaign. Were you pleased with the outcome?
We shot a short trailer and a pitch video. That was the worst part for me,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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