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Your Daily Dracula – Adolfo García Grau, Los Vampiros los Prefieren Gorditos...
Your Daily Dracula – Adolfo García Grau, Los Vampiros los Prefieren Gorditos (1974) This Argentinian comedy is so obscure it doesn’t get listed in any of the standard Dracula-in-the-movies reference...
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Film review – Que Ma Volonté Soit Faite (Her Will Be Done)
Que Ma Volonté Soit Faite (Her Will Be Done) In a remote French village, a Polish family has integrated into such community as there is – perhaps because their brutal misogyny isn’t that much different...
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FrightFest 2026 – podcast
Here’s the annual Straight On Till Morning podcast round-up of FrightFest, with Virginie Selavy, Anton Bitel and me.
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Your Daily Dracula – Ryo Yoshizawa as ‘Ranmaru Mori’, Baban Baban Ban Vampire...
Your Daily Dracula – Ryo Yoshizawa as ‘Ranmaru Mori’, Baban Baban Ban Vampire (2025) A live-action feature version of a manga series by writer-artist Hiromasa Okujima, which has previously been adapted...
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Halloween Double Bill
My audio dramas ‘Mildew Manor, or The Italian Smile’ and ‘Sarah Minds the Dog’ are being performed live for one night only at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington this Halloween. It’s the closing...
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Your Daily Dracula – Ghosts of Garip (Vlad’s Legacy) (2016)
Your Daily Dracula – Ghosts of Garip (Vlad’s Legacy) (2016) Chilean director Patricio Valladares made this in Turkey, working from a script by Barry Keating (Mamula) and Italian film critic Loris...
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FrightFest review – Sanguine (Species)
FrightFest review – Sanguine (Species) Marion Le Coroller’s Sanguine – which would be a perfectly good English language title, and wasn’t used for a science fiction film in 1995 – has a look, feel and...
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FrightFest review – Hyena (2026)
FrightFest review – Hyena (2026) It’s difficult to explain what the big problem with Hyena is without spoiling its twist – though just mentioning that it has a twist will probably make forewarned...
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FrightFest review – Mother and Me
FrightFest review – Mother and Me This is an impressive feature debut by writer-director Carson McKinnon, is busiest as a cinematographer; he shot this too – making especially good use of facial...
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FrightFest review – Snapshot (2026)
FrightFest review – Snapshot (2026) Director Joseph Archer and writer/actor Cathy Wippell take on a lot on their first feature – a ‘found footage’ film set at the dawn of the moving image, which offers...
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FrightFest review – Full Moon Rising The Charles Band Story
FrightFest review – Full Moon Rising The Charles Band Story Genre cinema is full of showmen – Alfred Hitchcock, William Castle, Roger Corman, Dario Argento, Lloyd Kaufman. These filmmakers get out in...
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FrightFest review – The Peril at Pincer Point!
FrightFest review – The Peril at Pincer Point! In 2002, sound engineer Jim Baitte (Jack Redmayne) is hauled over the coals by his callow bosses for making a rush job of the soundtrack of a new movie by...
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FrightFest review – You Are the Film
FrightFest review – You Are the Film A sweet, strange fantasy from writer-director Makoto Ueda – who scripted Junta Yamaguchi’s Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes and River – which at once explores...
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FrightFest review – Valley View Motel
FrightFest review – Valley View Motel Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis’ Valley View Motel – they wrote, directed and star – is as much a throwback to the 1990s/early oughts as it is to 1977, when it’s...
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FrightFest review – Bloom
FrightFest review – Bloom Lily (Meghan Carrasquillo) is getting by in the big city as a cleaner for short-term lets … then learns that she’s inherited the Jack Rabbit Plant Nursery from her aunt Rose,...
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FrightFest review – Oddities
FrightFest review – Oddities Written and directed by Tyler Savage – who made Blinders, one of that clutch of Uber/Lyft/Ryde-themed horors – this is at once quirkily strange in its sudden shifts of tone...
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FrightFest review – Bunny Rabbit
FrightFest review – Bunny Rabbit This opens (topically) with wildfire footage, hinting that the near-future (2030) apocalypse which ends civilisation and turns Australia into the kind of...
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FrightFest review – Compliance (2026)
FrightFest review – Compliance (2026) In recent years, there has been a spate of horror films about Air BnB and similar rental services – along with clutches of horror films about other contemporary...
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