Mild mannered geography teacher Fernando (Manolo Solo) returns home to find that his wife is not in the flat. After a few days, and no contact he goes to the police. With the few details he can furnis...

James Belmont (Brad Pitt) is recently retired from the US army’s special forces after thirty years’ service. With him is his loyal combat trained German shepherd Odin (Uber). Both have seen combat and...

Three girl friends are finishing off their break in Florida, contemplating when to go home, when strolling across the beach they come across an abandoned house with ‘3 dead inside’ painted in large le...

Released in 1986 Manhunter initially had a respectable critical response though lukewarm box office. Over the years the stature of the film has grown. Not only as the first appearance of Hannibal Lec...

Resonance is a groundbreaking 24/7 radio station which broadcasts on 104.4 FM to central London, DAB to Greater London, nationally on Radioplayer and live streamed to the rest of the world

Guitarist and singer Sam (Jamie Ward) phenomenally successful first album has provided him with wealth and fame. It’s also giving him the headache of writing a follow up. With the contract signed the ...

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The Adams Family are a prolific outfit though that generally doesn’t have a major effect on the quality of filmmaking and storylines. That’s probably because it appears that creative duties are rotate...

Grýlu Sker: An Icelandic Ghost Story (22 min)<br />Featuring stop-action, marionettes, and live action Grýlu Sker is a spectacular telling of an Icelandic tale. A sailor/explorer is shipwrecked on a r...

A creepier and more unsettling start to a film there may be but in Jeremias Segovia’s Sweet Violence, Mondato (Federico Guerra) is on the money as he chats to a child fishing, then cuts the fishing li...

It hardly needs saying that the Dracula legend, book and everything else that goes with it has been exploited to the fullest extent. That said with a property like this there’s always space for somet...

If this is the last we see of Becky (Lulu Wilson) then she’s out with an unchallenging ultra-violent watch that takes her back to the beginning.

A climate disaster (graphically and impressively presented at the start of the film) leaves the planet as a hell on Earth that forces human beings to commit the most despicable and taboo acts to stay ...

Set during the gruelling Paraguayan War between 1864 and 1870 that involved an attack by three countries and cost the lives of 100s of thousands. Desertion is a death sentence, and three men have deci...

Medical student Melissa (Daisy Jelley) and her boss Eric (Paul Casar) are on routine call out to administer the flu vaccine to the housebound and not able to get to their local GP.

Anyone familiar with Makoto Ueda’s highly enjoyable brain scrambler Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, will probably have some idea of what he’s come up with for his film debut.

At the moment the Hammer resurgence seems to be more about exploiting their back catalogue and releasing high-quality collections. On the film front there seems to be some caution which is understanda...

Heraldry Paranormal is a Yorkshire based paranormal research group. It is made up of brothers Finley (Jimmy Roberts), Seamus (Ashley Nashville) a researcher Emerson (Tara Buranakul). The other member ...

Labyrinth follows in the tradition of Saw and the much shorter-lived Escape Room franchises in which various sorts have to find their way out of a hideous situation without dying.

Invoking Scream is the follow up to Patricio Valladares’s 2023 Invoking Yell from which Andrea (María Jesús Marcone) returns. I haven’t seen Invoking Yell but I believe there’s enough in Invoking Scre...

The dreaded boardgame of horror is what Grin is all about. And it’s not short on the shocks at the start of the film. Even as the game is chucked out it yet still manages to cause a death.

It’s Australia 1986 and to a bouncy surf rock tune friends Penny (Bailey Spalding), Amy (Alexandra Jameson) and Toni (Tahlee Fereday) are getting ready for a pre-university party. There’s fun in the a...

It’s important to mention that my screener of Hellcat had sound problems that muffled the dialogue and design, apart from the radio presenter who was as clear as you’d expect. Being time poor there wa...

The opening of a deranged killer attacking a woman, ripping her gut open, then shot by police only for him to chant some words to a machine, may have an idea where this is going.

FrightFest has announced four short film showcases, curated to unleash the newest gems from the UK and across the world.

A stunning blue-haired drag queen has a rendezvous at a church and finds that its was not what they were expecting.

At home in Adelaide, Australia director Anthony Firth is frustrated with his job title. Not that the isn’t a bone fide director, he is just that it’s for corporate training films. Not what he had in...

The corrosive effects of drugs, organised crime and corruption on society have been well documented in fact and fictional films. Mainly this has been in the US and Europe. Son of the Soil takes the ...

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Running from Thursday August 27 – Monday 31 August 2026, Tubi FrightFest will showcase eighty-two features, including the popular ‘First Blood’

From world premieres and found-footage freakouts to post-apocalyptic nightmares and inventive indie sci-fi, this year's FrightFest boasts its biggest line-up ever. Here's our guide...

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The film opens with Roy (Ruaridh Mollica) making his way through Norway’s frozen landscape to meet Anna (Alma Pöysti). She vaguely recognises him from years back and asks if he wants to go the cabin. ...