Here are my notes on several years of FrightFest films. It’s updated as new reviews go live.
2023
#ChadgetstheAxe
Consecration
Fumer Fait Tousser (Smoking Causes Coughing)
Here For Blood
Hunt Her, Kill Her
Irati
Little Bone Lodge
Mater Superior (Mother Superior)
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls
Rupintojelis (Pensive)
Sisu
13 Exorcismos (13 Exorcisms)
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
2022
Ach du Sheisse! (Holy Shit!) (2022)
Barbaque (Some Like It Rare)
Barbarian (2022)
Bitch Ass (2022)
Bite (2022)
The Breach (2022)
Burial (2022)
Candy Land (2022)
Cerdita (Piggy) (2022)
Cerebrum (2022)
Control (2022)
Coupez! (Final Cut)
A Cloud So High
The Cellar
The Creeping (2022)
Croc! (2022)
Cult of VHS
Daughter (2022)
Deadstream
Deep Fear
Do Not Disturb (2022)
Eating Miss Campbell
Emesis (Pussycake)
Everybody Dies By The End
The Eyes Below
Fall (2022)
Family Dinner
Follow Her
Freaks Out
Freeze
The Ghosts of Monday
The Ghost Writer (2022)
The Group (2022)
The Harbinger
H4z4rd
Homebound
Hounded
Huesera
Hypochondriac
Incroyable Mais Vrai (Incredible But True)
Klienten (The Last Client)
Kommunioun (Wolfkin)
The Lair (2022)
The Ledge
The Leech (2022)
Let The Wrong One In
Living With Chucky
Lola (2022)
Mad Heidi
Mandrake
Mastemah
Mean-Spirited
Midnight Peepshow
Monstrous
Next Exit
New Religion
Night of the Bastard
Night’s End
Night Sky (2022)
Occhiali Neri (Dark Glasses)
The Offering
The Once And Future Smash + End Zone 2
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
On the Edge (2020)
Orchestrator of Storms
Outpost (2020)
Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead
The Price We Pay
Raven’s Hollow
Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge
She Came From The Woods
Sissy
Something In the Dirt
Sorry About the Demon
Splinter (2022)
Stalker (2022)
The Summoned
Super Z
Swallowed
Terrifier 2
They Wait In the Dark
Tiny Cinema
Torn Hearts
Tripping the Dark Fantastic
Le Visiteur du Futur (The Visitor From the Future)
Walking Against the Rain
Who Invited Them
Wolf Manor
A Wounded Fawn
Wyrmwood Apocalypse
You Are Not My Mother
Y todos Ardéran (Everyone Will Burn)
… and here’s the Straight On Till Morning FrightFest post-mortem podcast with Virginie Selavy and Anton Bitel.
2021
American Badger
Amulet
Antidote
Are We Monsters
Bad Candy
Barbarians (2021)
Bloodthirsty
Boy #5
Brain Freeze
The Brilliant Terror
Bring Out the Fear
Broadcast Signal Intrusion
El cadáver insepulto (The Unburied)
Le Calendrier (The Advent Calendar)
Captive (2020)
The Changed
Claw
Come in cielo, Così in Terra (As In Heaven, So On Earth)
Coming Home in the Dark
Crabs!
Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes
Dementer
Demonic
Droste no hate de bokura (Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes)
Evie
El Exorcismo de Carmen Farias (The Exorcism of Carmen Farias)
La Femme aux Chaussures Leopard (The Woman With Leopard Shoes)
Followers
Forgiveness
The Found Footage Phenomenon
Gaia
Greywood’s Plot
Hors du Monde (Out of This World)
Hotel Poseidon
Isolation
John and the Hole
Killer Concept
The Kindred
King Knight
Knackningar (Knocking)
Laguna Ave
Lair
The Last Rite
Last Survivors
The Last Thing Mary Saw
The Maid
Miracle Valley
Motherly
Mystery Spot
Night Drive
Nocturna: Lado A – La noche del Hombre Grande (Nocturna: Side A – The Great Old Man’s Night)
No Man Of God
Offseason
The Old Ways
The Parker Sessions
Pennywise The Story of It
The Possessed (2021)
Post Mortem (2020)
Pretty Boy
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Red Snow
The Retaliators
Run Hide Fight
The Sadness
The Seed (2021)
She Watches From The Woods
The Show
Slapface
La Sombra del Gato (Shadow of the Cat)
Sound of Violence
Touch
Ultrasound
De Uskyldige (The Innocents) (2021)
Venecia Frenia
Vicious Fun
When the Screaming Starts
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Zhanym, ty ne poverish (Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It)
Virginie Selavy, Anton Bitel and I discuss this year’s FrightFest for Resonance FM.
2020
2020 The year FrightFest went virtual.
Alien on Stage
Aquaslash
Av The Hunt
Baby Sitter Must Die
The Banishing
Benny Loves You
Blind
Blinders
Blood Harvest (The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw)
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (2020)
Breeder
Broil
Bumperkleef (Tailgate)
Butchers
Caveat
Carroña (Scavenger)
Clapboard Jungle
Concrete Plans
Cyst
Dangerous to Know
Dark Place
Dark Stories
Dead (2020)
Don’t Click
Don’t Look Back (2020)
Dune Drifter
Embrión (Embryo) (2020)
Enhanced
For the Sake of Vicious
La Funeraria (The Funeral Home)
A Ghost Waits
Hail to the Deadites
Hall
Heckle
Held
Honeydew
The Honeymoon Phase
The Horror Crowd
Hosts
I Am Lisa
De Kuthoer (The Columnist)
Let’s Scare Julie
Los Que Vuelven (The Returned)
Lucky
The Nights Before Christmas
The Owners
The Pale Door
Playhouse
The Reckoning
Redwood Massacre: Annihilation
Relic (2020)
Sacrifice (2020)
Shashin no Onna (Woman of the Photographs)
The Sinners
Sin Origen (Origin Unknown)
Skull (Skull: The Mask)
Sky Sharks
Skylin3s
Slaxx
Spare Parts
Storonniy (Stranger)
The Stylist
The Swerve
There’s No Such Thing as Vampires
They’re Outside
Triggered
12 Hour Shift
Two Heads Creek
The World We Knew
2019
Abgeschnitten (Cut-Off)
Are We Dead Yet
The Banana Splits
The Barge People
The Black String
Bliss
Blood & Flesh The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Bloodline
Bullets of Justice
Candy Corn
Come to Daddy
Crawl
Crímenes Impossibles (Impossible Crimes)
Criminal Audition
Critters Attack!
Dachra
Daniel Isn’t Real
Dark Encounter
Dark Light
The Dark Red
Dark Sense
Darlin’
Deadcon
Death of a Vlogger
The Deeper You Dig
Depraved
Driven
The Drone
Eat Brains Love
Exterminadores do Além Contra Loira do Banheiro (Ghost Killers Vs. Bloody Mary)
Extracurricular
Feedback
Fingers
For We Are Many
Freaks
The Furies
Girl on the Third Floor
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
Halloween Party
Happy Face
Harpoon
Haunt
Here Comes Hell
Hoshikuzu kyôdai no densetsu (The Legend of the Stardust Brothers)
I’ll Take Your Dead
I Trapped the Devil
Kindred Spirits
Knives and Skin
Madness in the Method
The Magnificent Obsession of Michael Reeves
Mary
Master of Dark Shadows
Mutant Blast
Nekrotronic
Papa, sdokhni (Why Don’t You Just Die!)
The Perished
Piedra, papel y tijera (Rock, Paper and Scissors)
Porno
Rabid (2019)
Ready or Not
Red Letter Day
Sadistic Intentions
Satanic Panic
Scare Package
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life
The Sonata
Soy Toxico (I Am Toxic)
Spiral
Stairs
Stalked
Swallow
Tales From the Lodge
To Your Last Death
Trick
True Fiction
Uncanny Annie
Volition
We Summon the Darkness
The Wind
Witches in the Woods
The Wretched
And here’s the Sight & Sound FrightFest podcast, in which I talk terror with Virginie Selavy and Anton Bitel.
2018
Anna and the Apocalypse
Aterrados (Terrified)
Await Further Instructions
Bad Samaritan
Black Site
Boar
Bodied
Book of Monsters
Braid
Chuck Steel Night of the Trampires
The Cleaning Lady
Climax
CTRL
¡Culto al Terror! (Cult of Terror)
The Dark
Dead Night
Dementia Part II
The Devil’s Doorway
La femme la plus assassinée du monde (The Most Assassinated Woman in the World)
The Field Guide to Evil
Frankenstein’s Creature
Fright Fest
FrightFest Beneath the Dark Heart of Cinema
FUBAR
The Golem
Gôsuto masuku: kizu (Ghost Mask-Scar-)
Ghost Stories
Hammer Horror The Warner Bros Years
Hell is Where the Home Is
Heretiks
He’s Out There
Incident in a Ghostland
Kamera o tomeru na! (One Cut of the Dead)
The Laplace’s Demon
Lasso
Life After Flash
Lifechanger
Luciferina
The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot
Matar a Dios (Killing God)
Mega Time Squad
Mirada de cristal (Crystal Eyes)
The Night Sitter
La Nuit a Devore la Monde (The Night Eats the World)
Open 24 Hours
Our House
Perfect Skin
Peripheral
Piercing
Pimped
Possum
Puppet Master The Littlest Reich
The Ranger
Ravers
Rock Steady Row
St Agatha
Secret Santa
Seeds
Summer of 84
Los Tigres no Tienen Miedo (Tigers Are Not Afraid)
The Tokoloshe
Upgrade
Videomannen (Videoman)
What Keeps You Alive
White Chamber
The Witch in the Window
Wolfman’s Got Nards
A Young Man With High Potential
And here’s the Sight & Sound podcast, with Virginie Selavy, Anton Bitel and me.
2017
Here’s the FrightFest 2017 sizzle reel …
Accountable
Ak-Nyeo (The Villainess)
El Ataúd de Cristal (The Glass Coffin)
Attack of the Adult Babies
Bad Match
El Bar (The Bar)
Better Watch Out
Boots on the Ground
Canaries
Crow’s Blood
Cult of Chucky
Dead Shack
Death Note
Devil’s Gate
Dhogs
Diane
Double Date
Eat Locals
Exhume
Fanged Up
Fashionista
Freddy/Eddy
Freehold
Game of Death
Die Holle (Cold Hell)
Imitation Girl
Incontrol
Inside
In un Giorno la Fine (The End?)
It Stains the Sands Red
Jackals
Killing Ground
King Cohen
Leatherface
Lowlife
Mal Nosso (Our Evil)
Mansfield 66/67
Mayhem
Meatball Machine Kodoko
Mindhack
Mountain Fever
Nightworld
Psychopaths
Radius
Redwood
Replace
Ruin Me
Sequence Break
Seuls (Alone)
68 Kill
Still/Born
The Terror of Hallows Eve
3rd Night
To Hell and Back The Kane Hodder Story
Top Knot Detective
Tragedy Girls
Veronica
Victor Crowley
Voice From the Stone
Where the Skin Lies
Here’s the Sight & Sound podcast where I discuss FrightFest with Virginie Selavy and Anton Bitel.
2016
Abattoir
Another Evil
Através da Sombra (Through the Shadow)
Ataud Blanco El Juego Diabolico (White Coffin)
Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies
Au dela les Murs (Beyond the Walls)
Bad Blood
Beyond the Gates
Blood Feast
Blood Hunters
Broken
Busan Haeeng (Train to Busan)
Cell
The Chamber
The Creature Below
Crow
Cruel Summer
The Devil’s Candy
Director’s Cut
Downhill
Egomaniac
Enclosure
The Evil In Us
Found Footage 3D
Francesca
From a House on Willow Street
The Girl With All the Gifts
Hallows Eve
Here Alone
Hostage to the Devil
House of Salem
Ibiza Undead
Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word
Karaoke Crazies
The Killing of America
Knucklebones
Let Her Out
Let’s Be Evil
Lo Chiamavano Jeeg Robot (They Call Me Jeeg Robot)
Lost Solace
The Love Witch
Man Underground
Marshrut Postroen (Paranormal Drive)
The Master Cleanse
Mercy
Monolith
My Father Die
The Neighbor
Night of Something Strange
Offensive
Los Parecidos (The Similars)
Pet
Population Zero
La Rage du Démon (Fury of the Demon)
Realive
Red Christmas
The Rezort
Sadako vs Kayako
Shelley
SiREN
Tenemos la Carne (We Are the Flesh)
31
Under the Shadow
The Unkindness of Ravens
The Unravelling
La Valija di Benavidez (Benavidez’s Suitcase)
The Windmill Massacre
And here’s the Sight & Sound FrightFest podcast with me, Anton Bitel and Virginie Selavy.
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