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FrightFest · 2015

FrightFest 2015

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15 films · 7 reviews

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Another Me

A schoolgirl whose father is dying comes to believe that she is being haunted by her dead twin.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Isabel Coixet; Stars: Sophie Turner, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Claire Forlani, Rhys Ifans, Geraldine Chaplin)

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

Review preview for Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

Overall this is an entertaining and intriguing film which deserves more attention than it has historically enjoyed.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A swashbuckling foe of the undead is summoned to a village where a woman's corpse has been found.

(Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: Brian Clemens; Writer: Brian Clemens; Stars: Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Cater, Ian Hendry, Wanda Ventham)

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The Entity

A group of media students films people watching intense shock footage online to monitor their psychological effect - until they find one example so terrifying the viewers have all died in mysterious circumstances.

(Country: Peru; Year: 2015; Director: Eduardo Schuldt; Stars: Daniella Mendoza, Rodrigo Fala, Carlos Casella, Mario Gaviria, Diego Seminario)

Final Girl

Review preview for Final Girl

Tyler Shelds' surreal fairytale is part morality play, part action thriller, all of it stylishly shot.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A highly trained assassin arranges to become the prey of a murderous gang on what will be its very last hunt.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Tyler Shields; Writer: Adam Prince, Stephen Scarlata, Alejandro Seri, Johnny Silver; Stars: Abigail Breslin, Wes Bentley, Alexander Ludwig, Logan Huffman, Cameron Bright)

Full review See: Interview with Tyler Shiels about Final Girl

Hangman

A family are distressed to find that somebody broke into their home while they were away - but there's much worse to come.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Adam Mason; Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Kate Ashfield, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins, Eric Michael Cole)

Hawk The Slayer

Review preview for Hawk The Slayer

It stands out for its failings in a genre where there's some seriously tough competition.

Jennie Kermode · 1 out of 5
After his father and girlfriend are killed, a swordsman sets out to challenge his evil brother's reign and save an imprisoned abbess.

(Country: UK; Year: 1981; Director: Terry Marcel; Writer: Terry Marcel, Harry Robertson; Stars: John Terry, Jack Palance, Bernard Bresslaw, Ray Charleson, Peter O'Farrell, Patricia Quinn, Catriona MacColl)

Full review See: Interview with Catriona MacColl about Lucio Fulci and her career in horror.

Hellraiser

Review preview for Hellraiser

Though it's no longer likely to shock horror audiences, Hellraiser remains highly watchable, and there is no doubting its importance in the history of cinema.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
An unfaithful wife faces demonic horrors after her dead lover escapes from Hell.

(Country: UK; Year: 1987; Director: Clive Barker; Writer: Clive Barker; Stars: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman)

Full review See: Interview with Stuart Conran about Hellraiser

III

A young woman uses ancient shamanic magic to venture into her sister's subconscious in an attempt to save her from the epidemic that has ravaged their village.

(Country: Russia; Year: 2015; Director: Pavel Khvaleev; Stars: Polina Davydova, Lyubov Ignatushko, Evgeniy Gagarin)

Last Girl Standing

Review preview for Last Girl Standing

Akasha Villalobos' utterly committed performance makes for one of the most compelling horror heroines we've seen in years.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled?

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Benjamin R Moody; Writer: Benjamin R Moody; Stars: Akasha Villalobos, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Brian Villalobos, JD Carrera, Ryan Hamilton)

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The Lazarus Effect

A group of researchers who think they've found a way to resurrect the recently deceased take it in turns to be killed in order to find out.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: David Gelb; Stars: Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Sarah Bolger, Evan Peters, Donald Glover)

The Reflecting Skin

An eight year old boy has his perspective on life reshaped by an encounter with sinister, sophisticated killers.

(Country: UK; Year: 1990; Director: Philip Ridley; Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore, Duncan Fraser)

The Rotten Link

Something is about to happen that will shatter a tight-knit logging community.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2015; Director: Valentin Javier Diment; Stars: Germán de Silva, Paula Brasca, Sergio Boris, Luis Ziembrowski, Susana Pampin)

The Sand

Review preview for The Sand

It has a monster and it's going to use it.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Hungover students waking up on the beach discover that there's a giant alien monster underneath the sand - and it's hungry.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Isaac Gabaeff; Writer: Isaac Gabaeff; Stars: Mitchel Musso, Dean Geyer, Nikki Leigh, Brooke Butler, Meagan Holder) , Official site

Full review See: Interview with Isaac Gabaeff about The Sand

Suspension

A bullied girl lives in fear of her crazed father, even though he's locked in a secure hospital.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Jeffrey Scott Lando; Stars: Ellen MacNevin, Sage Brocklebank, Johannah Newmarch, Steve Richmond, Connor Fielding)

Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key

Review preview for Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key

Undulating bodies and splattering blood stand in for more explicit imagery and give the impression of spectacular excess.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
The mistress of a burnt-out novelist is brutally murdered - and she's only the first.

(Country: Italy; Year: 1972; Director: Sergio Martino; Writer: Luciano Martino, Sauro Scavolini, Ernesto Gastaldi, Adriano Bolzoni, based on a story Edgar Allan Poe; Stars: Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli, Ivan Rassimov, Daniela Giordano)

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