New Zealand has a long line of great comedy horrors. Bad Taste, Black Sheep, What We Do In The Shadows. This year's FrightFest sees another good entry to that list. Dead good. Marbles, a hapless stoner, can see ghosts. Tagg, a recently…

Karl Holt finds that it's child's play to deliver the highlight of this year's FrightFest with Benny Loves You. In 1995, the must-have toy was Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. In 2020, everyone will want a Benny. This film plays on Toy…

In space no one can hear you scream. On stage however, and at Frightfest, everyone can hear you scream... and laugh at Alien On Stage. This charming documentary follows a group of Dorset bus drivers put on their amateur dramatic…

Six years on from 2014's The Redwood Massacre, the Burlap Killer returns to terrorise a new audience at this year's Frightfest in Redwood Massacre: Annihilation. A stranger obsessed with the unsolved Redwood murders convinces a group of…

Frightfest's second digital festival of 2020 began with the tense and thrilling home invasion (or is it home entrapment) film Held. Looking to reignite the spark for their ninth wedding anniversary, Emma and Henry check in to a remote…

Originally shown in France as a series of short TV episodes but now released in longer film form, Dark Stories is made up of a collection of eerie tales connected by an overarching story, in the style which Amicus studio was famous for…

Though obvious what director / writer Renaud Gauthier was aiming to achieve with the comedy horror Aquaslash, it quickly becomes apparent that he fails to hit the mark by a mile. Clearly intended as a gory, blackly humorous send-up of…

Some films speak so pointedly to the period in which they're made, that you couldn't see them coming about at any other time. Take the new horror / drama from the Netherlands The Columnist, which manipulates the horrors surrounding the…

It may not be quite the way the organisers would have wished to celebrate 21 years of FrightFest, the UK's premiere horror and fantasy film festival. However because of ongoing concerns surrounding COVID-19, it was decided that this year's…

Many horror aficionados - from Britain and abroad - were disappointed after the recent announcement that, due to the ongoing fears over COVID-19, the annual FrightFest film festival would be postponed for the first time in its twenty…