FrightFest VOD Film review: Dark Place

This five-part horror anthology turns the tensions and traumas of Aboriginal experience into genre chills.Read More

VOD film review: 12 Hour Shift

Brea Grant’s portrait of a nurse’s night shift is a “slice of life” in more than one sense.Read More

FrightFest VOD film review: I Am Lisa

Patrick Rea’s revenge horror sees a smalltown second-hand bookseller bite back against her persecutors.Read More

FrightFest VOD film review: Sky Sharks

Marc Fehse’s SS-ploitation satire is a dumb-assed B movie with political teeth. Read More

VOD film review: Triggered (2020)

Nine twenty-something friends are pitted against one another in this entertaining, gruesome and self-aware Battle Royale.Read More

Interview: Brea Grant talks 12 Hour Shift

Ahead of the FrightFest UK premiere of 12 Hour Shift, director Brea Grant talks about the heroism of nurses and being a child of the 1990s.

12 Hour Shift is a valentine to East Texas and the hospital staff … Read More

Interview: Greg Day on taking FrightFest online for the first time

This week sees FrightFest go online for the first time in its history, taking one of the UK’s biggest horror cinema events into the digital ether in the middle of a global pandemic. (You can see our guide to the … Read More

FrightFest 2020: 10 films to stream

This week sees FrightFest go online for the first time, as one of the UK’s biggest horror film festivals takes to the web for a digital edition. From 27th to 31st August, the festival will stream 25 films – including … Read More

Host and Saint Maud directors join FrightFest line-up

FrightFest officially goes online this August Bank Holiday weekend, and it’s bringing some of the most buzzed-about filmmakers from the genre with it.

The five-day event, kicking off on Thursday 27th August, will stream 25 feature films from 10 countries, … Read More

FrightFest announces 2020 short film line-up

FrightFest may be going online this year, but that doesn’t mean it’s about to shortchange horror fans, with a short film showcase included in the streaming line-up.

The festival, sponsored by Arrow Video, will highlight the best new genre … Read More