Category: GFF strand – FrightFest

Frightfest short about a Deliveroo driver instructed not to open the box they’re transporting. It’s basically the opening scene from Gremlins played for comedy. Cute and funny.

Super fun neo-80s meta horror comedy. Joel is a smug obnoxious horror movie fanboy with more than a small dose of male entitlement and skeevy ego. His Nice Guy TM obsession with his flatmate leads him to tailing the latest guy she’s dating to a bar, in a jank boundary-crossing move. There he proceeds to…

Nice wee unsettling FrightFest short about getting an eye exam. All that darkness, and breath on your face, and taking away your ability to see clearly makes for fertile ground for the shivers. What’s that out the corner of your eye!

A black-and-white noir crime thriller, in the mould of old spy flicks or movies about socialites and cat burglars. Intrigue and tension abound in this tight, one room clue-cracker. The film is almost entirely silent, with minimal sparse dialogue and a little back and forth over text. The film is entirely carried on the performance…

Thoroughly enjoyable possession movie. Cristina is a journalist and junkie who ventures back to her birthplace in Mexico for an ethnographic article. Having largely lost touch with her roots after her adoption and move to the US at a young age, she no longer speaks Spanish and has no belief in the religious and traditional…

A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio is a anthology of 8 short stories. Some are really good, like the one about the pile of clothes on the chair at the end of the bed. There’s certainly variety, with a period monster, angry mermaid, and scary clown. With the radio announcer reading out the stories, it…

That was fucking awesome! Assault on Precinct 13-style siege movie. Crackhead punks attack a veterans’ bar, mayhem ensues. Beautiful gore, mesmerising score. Stephen Lang leads an amazing cast. See it!

Butt Boy is what happens if someone takes a Chuck Tingle story and films it like a gritty cop drama. A man with a portal in his ass is abducting kids and sticking them up there. Hot on his trail is a jaded, hard-bitten cop, and they play a game of cat-and-mouse throughout the movie.…

A series of shorts of varying quality made by and about women. Some are very promising, some are not for me.I liked Safe Space, less so Panoptia.

A sensational film about religious frenzy. A nurse sets out to save the soul of her dying patient. Jennifer Ehle is wonderful as the patient, and Morfydd Clark is extraordinary as Maud. Reminiscent of something like The Witch, this focuses on the ecstatics of devotion. A psychological horror with an unreliable narrator, Maud’s perspective on…