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[Review]: Chain Reactions
Stills from The Texas Chainsaw (1974) With a festival run kicked off with its world premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Chain Reactions directed by Alexandre O. Philippe is an in-depth exploration of one of the greatest and most influential horror films of all time – Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). When the cult classic hit the screens, the trajectory of horror changed forever, with the revelation that monsters are not always supernatural, sometim

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Nov 82 min read
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[Review]: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Tim Curry as Dr Frank-n-Furter Intimately detailing the origin story and steady rise of one of the world’s most beloved musicals, Strange...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Oct 22 min read
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[FrightFest 2025]: Sane Inside Sanity: The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror
With a powerful combination of glam-rock ear-worm songs and b-movie science fiction aesthetic, The Rocky Horror Show  burst forth from...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 251 min read
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[FrightFest Glasgow 2025]: The Last Sacrifice
A shadowy insular village in rural England hides a terrifying secret surrounding the mysterious murder of a local farmer, and when a...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Mar 112 min read
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[FrightFest 2024]: Generation Terror
Having its world premiere at this year’s FrightFest was Generation Terror , a documentary directed by horror doc maestro Sarah Appleton (...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 30, 20242 min read
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[FrightFest 2024]: Children of the Wicker Man
Just over fifty years ago The Wicker Man (1973)Â was released. Now widely seen as one of the great horrors of its era, its release was a...

Russell Bailey
Aug 24, 20242 min read
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[Film Review]: Dario Argento Panico (2023)
Directed by Simone Scafidi, Dario Argento Panico chronicles the life and career of the maestro of Italian horror, Dario Argento, as he...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Feb 2, 20242 min read
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