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We’ve been waiting, we’ve always been waiting……and as The UK premiere of The Lords of Salem at Glasgow Frightfest approached, I feel that I always had been.
Love is an understatement for how I feel about Rob Zombie’s movies and as such, my anticipation for “Lords” has been at an all-time high. Startlingly different from previous [...]
So first of all, my startling ‘confession’. I’d never been to a FrightFest before. There, I said it. I feel a little less dirty now.
After only recently joining the team here I heard about the upcoming horror festival and like a kid dizzy on E numbers I frantically made my way to the website to [...]
Let me tell you a story. I’ll be honest, it’s not always a pretty tale but it is certainly an interesting one. Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Let’s begin…
It was almost exactly one year ago that Film4 Frightfest last rolled into the Glasgow Film Theatre for its annual visit, bringing with it the usual frights and [...]
We all know that Frightfest is the UK’s premier horror festival. Nothing else comes close to touching it. It is enormous and consistently attracts great films and great guests.
It also comes to my hometown of Glasgow every year, bringing the same high calibre of films and guests and 2013′s line-up is among the most impressive [...]
Halloween is a special time indeed. Not simply because it happens to be my birthday but also because it’s one of the only times of the year where your average Joe’s eye is more keenly focused on the world of horror.
That’s something to be admired.
This Saturday, October 27th, horror returns to London’s Leicester Square as [...]
With Film4 Frightfest over for another year, some of you out there may be feeling a little bit lost and hungry for more. Well, fear not, fiends as Halloween is just around the corner, and with that, of course, comes the Frightfest Halloween All-Nighters.
Sadly, the event will not be taking place in my beloved Glasgow [...]
Having only received its European premiere a week or so ago as part of Film4 Frightfest, the latest poster for The Exorcism Of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson’s Sinister (review here) has been unveiled.
The film, which opens in UK cinemas on October 5th, is a great chiller and definitely one to catch.
Directed by Derrickson and [...]
American Mary has arrived at a very interesting time in my life. A time where my mind is very focused on my own films and on the numerous ways that we, as people, can alter, augment and otherwise change the physical form and appearance of our own bodies.
By its very definition, “body horror” is any [...]
I count William Lustig’s 1980 ultra-violent thriller Maniac among my favourite films. It’s a trashy journey into a broken mind that, to this day, has not been granted an uncut release here in the UK. So, when I heard that Switchblade Romance director Alexandre Aja was working on producing a remake, my heart sank.
A remake [...]
Horror might just be bigger today than it has ever been.
To some, that might be viewed as a bold statement but you simply have to look at the box-office takings for the films in the SAW and Paranormal Activity franchises to see that I am right.
Films involving ghosts or demonic goings-on are the biggest money-spinners [...]
