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Oct 18, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Christina Brennan
Released: TBC (Grimmfest 2024)Director: Justin HardyReviewed By: Christina Brennan2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the release of Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man. The same year, a new documentary called Children of The Wicker Man, directed by Robin’s son Justin Hardy, began premiering at international genre film festivals. Fans of the original folk horror film may have rightly wondered whether there was anything new to say about The Wicker Man’s legacy and its production history.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
msn.com | Christina Brennan
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
screensphere.co.uk | Christina Brennan
Ayvianna Snow stars in two highly anticipated British horror films that are set to premiere at FrightFest 2024, the largest horror film festival in the UK. Bogieville, a vampire thriller set in a trailer park in the American South, and Derelict, a psychological revenge thriller, are not typical horror films. Bogieville and Derelict promise to thrill even the most seasoned horror film fans.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
soundspheremag.com | Christina Brennan
Oz Perkins artfully weaves terrifying, occult horror into a creepy procedural crime-drama. Nearly every online film community have been swept up in the wait for Longlegsover the past few weeks. The promotion for Ozgood Perkins’ latest film, organised by Neon production company, has been one of the horror film industry’s most viral marketing campaigns in recent years. There were teaser trailers with snatches of dank, blood-soaked crime scenes.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
dreadcentral.com | Christina Brennan
Bringing horror to the stage is a daunting task. The noises of a theatre auditorium and the modern distractions of snapping Coca-Cola cans and rustling sweet wrappers can easily disrupt the eerie, suspenseful atmosphere of a traditional ghost story. Writer Levi Holloway and director Felix Barrett had a nearly impossible task when they set out to adapt an iconic Blumhouse franchise for the stage.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
vaguevisages.com | Christina Brennan
2020s Vague Visages’ Dagrreview contains minor spoilers. Matthew Butler-Hart’s 2024 movie features Riz Moritz, Ellie Duckles and Tori Butler-Hart. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews, along with cast/character summaries, streaming guides and complete soundtrack song listings. *Nearly every year across the international film festival circuit, distributors snap up another found footage movie. Some are pulpy, slapstick fun.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
vaguevisages.com | Christina Brennan
2020s Vague Visages’ Die Before You Diereview contains minor spoilers. Dan Pringle’s 2024 movie features Ziad Abaza, Priya Blackburn and Falah Hashim. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews, along with cast/character summaries, streaming guides and complete soundtrack song listings. *A skim through recent horror flicks shows that the networked world of social media has become a more frequent subject in contemporary cinema.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
moviemarker.co.uk | Christina Brennan |Jumpcut Studios
Feature By: Christina BrennanIf you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you transplanted one of the earliest stories of Gothic science-fiction into the poppy teenage world of an 80s American high school, then the 2023 movie scene was a good year for you with Zelda Willams’ Lisa Frankenstein. Equally, if you’ve ever wondered what the Monster from Mary Shelley’s classic novel would look like as a dog, then Tim Burton’s surreally comic Frankenweenie (1984) has the answers.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
nerdspin.com | Christina Brennan
‘This is the Ant. Could you treat it with respect? For it may well be the next dominant life form on our planet’ intones the melodramatic, B-movie narrator of Bert I. Gordon’s 70s cult gem Empire of the Ants. You can hear echoes of Dr. Seriwaza in Godzilla in this campy horror sci-fi hybrid movie: ‘The arrogance of men is thinking nature is in our control and not the other way around’.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
screen-queens.com | Christina Brennan
The UK city of Bradford is premiering its first Queer Film Festival this year. A spin-off of the established Bradford Queer Film Club, the Bradford Queer Film Festival (BQFF) offers an array of new and cult screenings across diverse genres, ranging from documentary to horror and Bollywood cinema.
