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FrightFest · 2016

FrightFest 2016

Discovery Screen 3 exclusives

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4 films · 4 reviews

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Hostage To The Devil

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If you go into this film believing in demonic possession, you are likely to find it chilling in places. If you don't, it's unlikely to change your mind. The more interesting questions are focused on Martin himself.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A documentary about Irish priest Father Malachi Martin and his crusade battling the devil from the release of The Exorcist movie through to his suspicious death in 1999.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Marty Stalker; Writer: Rachel Lysaght, Marty Stalker; Stars: Richard O'Leary, Ralph Sarchie, John Zaffis, Art Bell, Pope John Paul II)

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The Killing Of America

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Whilst it may not be the sharpest piece of sociological analysis, The Killing Of America has an important point to make about the level of brutality Americans have come to take for granted.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A documentary tracing murderous violence in America through the Sixties and Seventies.

(Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Sheldon Renan; Writer: Chieko Schrader, Leonard Schrader; Stars: Chuck Riley, Ed Dorris, David Berkowitz, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy)

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Lost Solace

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Lost Solace deftly skewers the conventions of films which pit unfeeling men against one another, undermining the conventional masculine dynamic and moving the goalposts.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Spence Cutler is a vicious psychopath who stalks his victims relentlessly without emotion, empathy or guilt. But one fateful encounter in a nightclub with a new designer drug is about to give him a dose of way too much reality.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Chris Scheuerman; Writer: Andrew Jenkins, Chris Scheuerman; Stars: Andrew Jenkins, Melissa Roxburgh, Leah Gibson, Charlie Kerr, Michael Kopsa)

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Road Games (Fausse Route)

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Though its tendency to whimsy means it’s not quite as tightly plotted as it needs to be, this charismatic little thriller still manages to punch above its weight.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Two strangers travelling together in rural France find themselves in a dangerous situation after agreeing to stay in an older couple's mansion.

(Country: UK, France; Year: 2015; Director: Abner Pastoll; Writer: Abner Pastoll; Stars: Barbara Crampton, Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot, Lou Castel)

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