FrightFest

Piggy review | Carlota Pereda's short film gets the feature treatment

★★★☆☆
In Piggy, an overweight, lonely teenager finds a surprising and terrifying alliance of sorts with a sadistic killer.

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead on Something In The Dirt: ‘The reason you do bigger films is to be able to make smaller films with your friends’

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead chat to us about their new film Something In The Dirt, which has just amazed audiences at FrightFest. 

Something In The Dirt review | A mesmerising piece of sci-fi cinema

★★★★☆
Visionary directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead go back to their roots with the paranoid and mysterious Something In The Dirt.

Barbarian review | The horror film of the year?

★★★★☆
Zach Cregger’s Barbarian is the horror film of the year, this is a film that will have you laughing, cringing and screaming in shock and awe.

FrightFest 2022 | Burial

Ben Parker’s World War II thriller Burial is filled with cheap thrills but it never comes together as a coherent drama.

FrightFest 2022 | Follow Her

★★★★☆
Follow Her is a devilishly clever take on the influencer-era of social media and has some killer twists up its sleeve.

FrightFest 2022 | Swallowed

★★☆☆☆
Carter Smith returns with a queasy and grim thriller about a drug run gone wrong, but Swallowed never really gets going like it should. 

FrightFest 2022 | Deadstream

★★★☆☆
Social media and cancel culture take a hit in Deadstream, a hilarious horror-comedy from Joseph and Vanessa Winter.

FrightFest 2022 | Mastemah

★★★☆☆
Mastemah starts off strong but soon dissolves into a messy, unfocused tale of clichés about demonic possession.

FrightFest 2022 | She Came From The Woods

★★☆☆☆
She Came From The Woods takes the popular 80s slasher narrative and tries to inject some new life into it, with mixed results. 

FrightFest 2022 | Final Cut

★★★★☆
This incredibly meta French remake of a Japanese indie zombie film hits all the right spots and will entertain your socks off.

FrightFest 2022 | The Harbinger

★★★☆☆
It’s not easy to make any film about the Covid-19 pandemic, but director Andy Mitton has just made it look easy with The Harbinger.

FrightFest 2022: Next Exit

★★★★☆
Starring Rahul Kohli and Katie Parker, Next Exit is a touching sci-fi film about life and death and everything in between. 

FrightFest 2022: The Lair

★★☆☆☆

Neil Marshall, director of Dog Soldiers and The Descent, opens up this year’s FrightFest with his new film, The Lair.