Way back in 2002 or so my better half suggested that we go to a film festival that she’d heard about called FrightFest. While I’m usually reticent about going to music festivals as they’re not…
After being electrocuted back to life as a still born baby at the morgue, Tess lives fifteen years of her life with mortician Ken Stern (Chaz Bono), before discovering she can manipulate electricity, and setting…
ARROW VIDEO FRIGHTFEST RENEWS NEW BLOOD TALENT SEARCH SECOND YEAR FOR HORROR FEATURE WRITERS INITIATIVE IN ASSOCIATION WITH QUEENSBURY PICTURES After the success of last year’s inaugural ‘New Blood’ search for new writers in the horror…
Alan Jones is an author, journalist, film critic and historian, punk rocker and the co-curator of Frightfest Vault of Horror: The Italian Connection is out now and can be ordered here
20 Classic tracks from the golden era of Italian Horror, featuring composers including STELVIO CIPRIANI, FABIO FRIZZI & ENNIO MORRICONE, with extensive biographical notes on each track by FrightFest’s ALAN JONES The golden era of…
Ahead of the UK premiere of his debut feature HOSTILE at the Horror Channel Frightfest Halloween event, director Mathieu Turi shares his admiration for Tarantino, describes the challenges of filming in three continents and reveals…
Ahead of the UK premiere of his latest film IT CAME FROM THE DESERT at the Horror Channel Frightfest Halloween event, director Marko Mäkilaakso shares his admiration for Roger Corman, love of B-Movies, spoofing and…
While I don’t exactly fit the criteria to be a ‘Monster Kid’ (I didn’t grow up in the sixties and didn’t spend countless evenings making Aurora and Polar Lights model kits while watching the rubber…
I am, by no means an expert or an authority on Exploitation Cinema and am at best, a somewhat enthusiastic neophyte, one who has been dipping his toes into its vast ocean now and then…
Horror Channel and FrightFest have agreed a three-year partnership deal, which sees the CBS Studios International / AMC NetworksInternational – UK owned channel become headline sponsor for the UK’s biggest and most popular genre film…
With the rise in popularity of Syfy films such as Sharknado and Piranhaconda, more and more studios are putting out movies in a similar style, mixing tongue-in-cheek humour with bad special effects to produce something…
Following on from the success of Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies and Life After Beth, Night of the Living Deb is the newest “zom-com” to be released, mixing zombie horror motifs with those of…
