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FrightFest

23 August – 27 August 2018

Braid
Braid

Back for its 19th year, Arrow Video Frightfest had a great line-up of scary films for fans to enjoy, with contributions from 18 different countries, including 20 world premières. It opened with Jenn Wexler's The Ranger.

The festival ran from 23 to 27 August.

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  • Open 24 Hours
    Review preview for Open 24 Hours

    Much of what follows is routine horror movie stuff but it's given additional weight by writer/director Padraig Reynolds' understanding of the after-effects of trauma.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid, delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station.
  • One Cut Of The Dead
    Review preview for One Cut Of The Dead

    A film that understands its audience exceptionally well.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Shooting a zombie movie in one take is harder than you think...
  • The Night Sitter
    Review preview for The Night Sitter

    Good chemistry between Dufour and Champion means that their bond feels real and keeps us caring for them even during the silliest parts of the story.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A con artist poses as a babysitter to steal from a wealthy occult enthusiast, arriving just as his son accidentally summons a trio of witches.
  • Mega Time Squad
    Review preview for Mega Time Squad

    Van Dammen has bitten off much more than he can chew and lacks the experience to spit some of it out, but it's largely his ambition that makes things interesting.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A petty drug dealer with a once in a lifetime opportunity to pull off a big score unexpectedly gains the ability to bend time.
  • Book Of Monsters
    Review preview for Book Of Monsters

    Craine puts a lot of passion into her performance, making for a gutsy lead we can keep rooting for even when other aspects of the film are weak.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Six kickass women must fight off a horde of terrifying monsters at an 18th birthday party.
  • Piercing
    Review preview for Piercing

    Without a doubt, Pesce is one of the most exciting young directors to emerge in recent years.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A man seeks out an unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he encounters a woman with plans of her own. A playful psycho-thriller game of cat-and-mouse.
  • Braid
    Review preview for Braid

    The iconography of the feminine is twisted into something deadly.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two drug dealers on the lam seek refuge inside their mentally unstable friend’s mansion. But in order to stay, they have to participate in her elaborate, and increasingly dangerous, game of permanent make-believe.
  • Secret Santa
    Review preview for Secret Santa

    A natural crowd movie.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    The Pope family’s Christmas Eve dinner goes horribly and hilariously wrong when someone puts something in the party punch causing everyone to tell the unvarnished truth at the already dysfunctional holiday reunion.
  • Upgrade
    Review preview for Upgrade

    I went with the expectation that I'd see some good old-fashioned cyberpunk-inflected kicky-punch and was not disappointed.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.
  • The Golem
    Review preview for The Golem

    The story itself is simple but the presentation makes this an unusual and intriguing piece of work.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A woman in a besieged medieval Jewish community looks for a solution in forbidden magic.

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