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[FrightFest 2026]: Big Baby
Big Baby Killer Blurring the lines between fiction and reality is director Spider One’s Big Baby, having its UK premiere at this year’s FrightFest. An homage to all those who work in the arts, the film follows a troubled screenwriter as his newest idea for a horror film seems to have physically sprang forth from his dreams and into his everyday waking life. Big Baby stars Brandon Scott as Adam Lewis, a horror movie screenwriter whose latest film bombs with critics and leads

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Aug 282 min read


[Review]: Frankie, Maniac Woman
Dina Silva as Frankie Exploring an inherently misogynistic society’s negative attitudes towards fat bodies and pretty privilege, Dina Silva and Pierre Tsigaridis’ eighties grime inspired slasher Frankie, Maniac Woman delivers its message to audiences with buckets of violence and blood. Frankie (Dina Silva) is an aspiring musician who is constantly hindered at every turn by society’s treatment of her based on her looks, to the point that she is driven mad by the impossible st

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jan 72 min read


[Fantastic Fest 2025 Review]: Dolly
Dolly played by Max The Impaler Having had its world premiere at this year's Fantastic Fest, Dolly , directed by Rod Blackhurst is an unrelenting and violent homage to 1970s hicks-ploitation, as well as incorporating strong vibes of New French Extremity. Centering on a woman Macy (Fabianne Therese) who has been kidnapped by a masked killer, she must find a way to escape before she is forced to succumb to a twisted and bizarre fate. When Macy and her boyfriend Chase (played

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Oct 28, 20252 min read


[FrightFest 2025]: Super Happy Fun Clown
An eternal presence in the horror genre, one is never too far away from a killer clown. And Super Happy Fun Clown features a doozy of a...

Russell Bailey
Sep 1, 20252 min read


[FrightFest 2025]: Marshmallow
Certain horrors are tricksy things to approach. Marshmallow is a mystery box, something that reveals itself to be a far more interesting...

Russell Bailey
Aug 24, 20252 min read
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[Interview]: Aled Owen, Director and Star of The Mill Killers
Aled Owen in The Mill Killers Welsh indie horror The Mill Killers , which was made and set in Wales, is now available to buy and rent...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Apr 25, 20255 min read
![[Review]: He Never Left](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/faea52_ff7fd0f2452b41d3aa34463b8ae7f188~mv2.webp/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,al_c,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/faea52_ff7fd0f2452b41d3aa34463b8ae7f188~mv2.webp)
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[Review]: He Never Left
Set at a very Carpenter-esque Halloween season, He Never Left , directed by James Morris, focuses on a man who is at the epicentre of a...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Oct 30, 20242 min read
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[Review]: Terrifier 3
Art is back, and this time he is slaying his way through the snow and decking the halls with guts and carnage as the third instalment in...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Oct 7, 20242 min read
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[Fantasia 2024]: Carnage For Christmas
Having its Montreal premiere at FANTASIA 2024 is Alice Maio Mackay’s Carnage For Christmas , a festive slasher whodunnit and a spirited...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jul 20, 20242 min read
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[Glasgow FrightFest]: Wake Up
Home store invasion horror Wake Up from directorial team ‘Roadkill Superstars’, made up of filmmakers François Dimard and Anouk and...

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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