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FrightFest · 2017

FrightFest 2017

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11 films · 4 reviews

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Accountable

Warren Matthews is an angry and directionless young man struggling to contain his formidable temper. But before long circumstances cause him to reluctantly enlist the services of a local psychiatrist to help him confront damaging past events fuelling his future angst.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Matthew Heaven; Stars: Oliver Towner, Robert Eldridge, Lizzie Davies, Sam Kacher, Stefan Boehm)

Blood From The Mummy's Tomb

Review preview for Blood From The Mummy's Tomb

Leon's formidable presence is a match for any of Hammer's celebrated male leads.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A beautiful jewel taken from a tomb holds the secret to renewed life for a murderous Ancient Egyptian princess.

(Country: UK; Year: 1971; Director: Seth Holt, Michael Carreras; Writer: Christopher Wicking, based on the book by Bram Stoker.; Stars: Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir, James Villiers, Hugh Burden, George Coulouris, Mark Edwards)

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Cold Hell

A kickboxing taxi driver becomes a serial killer's target after witnessing him at work.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky; Stars: Violetta Schurawlow, Tobias Moretti, Robert Palfrader)

Demons Of The Mind

Review preview for Demons Of The Mind

In the best tradition of the Gothic, the plot is overwhelmed by the themes and the finer points of the acting frequently lost beneath exuberant displays of emotion.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
In 19th century Bavaria, deranged Baron Zorn keeps his children locked up because he thinks they are possessed by tainted hereditary madness. It’s up to discredited psychiatrist Professor Falkenberg to unravel the dark family secrets.

(Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: Peter Sykes; Writer: Christopher Wicking, Frank Godwin; Stars: Patrick Magee, Paul Jones, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills, Robert Hardy)

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Dream Demon

A nervous bride-to-be is tormented by bad dreams in which she decapitates her Falklands hero fiancé at the altar. When she meets a US punk trying to resolve a childhood trauma experienced in the same house, all hell breaks loose.

(Country: UK; Year: 1988; Director: Harley Cokliss; Stars: Jemma Redgrave, Kathleen Wilhoite, Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail, Mark Greenstreet)

Exhume

Patrick and his wife Karen Connor are hired by the state of Florida to exhume bodies resting under a closed down reform school. But the probationary facility had an infamous past and was known for the sadistic torture and murder of young boys in the early 1900s. Some of the case histories are so horrifying they just can’t stay buried.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Scott Poiley; Stars: William Haze, Alice Rietveld, Sarah Sculco, Tony Senzamici, Matthew Nardozzi)

Fashionista

Review preview for Fashionista

Fuller is absorbing in the central role, really giving it her all.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A woman who uses clothes as an emotional crutch discovers her life isn't as ideal as she thought.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Simon Rumley; Writer: Simon Rumley; Stars: Amanda Fuller, Ethan Embry, Eric Balfour, Alex Assoe, Alexandria DeBerry)

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It Stains The Sand Red

In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, A troubled woman from Las Vegas finds herself stranded in the desert with a lone and ravenous zombie on her tail.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Colin Minihan; Writer: Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz; Stars: Brittany Allen, Juan Riedinger, Merwin Mondesir)

Meatball Machine Kodoku (Kodoku: Mîtobôru Mashin, Kodoku: Meatball Machine)

A 50-yea-old debt collector learns that he has cancer and only three months to live. But then there are those pesky aliens, who might shorten the time even more by turning him into a cyborg, and he’s not the only one.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2017; Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura)

Nightworld

When former LAPD officer Brett Anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building, he experiences a series of bizarre and terrifying events.

(Country: Bulgaria; Year: 2017; Director: Patricio Valdares; Stars: Robert Englund, Jason London, Gianni Capaldi, Lorina Kamburova , Diana Lyubenova)

Replace

Review preview for Replace

Tim Peter Kuhn's cinematography and Franco Tortora and Tom Batoy’s dramatic score combine to create a sense of disorientation, of psychological disintegration.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Afflicted with a dermatological disease that causes her skin to crumble away, Kira discovers that she can replace that skin with the skin of other women.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Norbert Keil; Writer: Norbert Keil, Richard Stanley, Scarlett Amaris; Stars: Barbara Crampton, Rebecca Forsythe, Lucie Aron, Sean Knopp, Adnan Maral)

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