Tag: FrightFest


  • FrightFest 2024: Fright Is a Super Fun Homage to a Bygone Era

    I grew up watching old-school horror the way normal kids watch Disney movies. In fact, Iโ€™ve still never seen The Lion King, Pocahontas, or Beauty and the Beast in their entirety, but I recite the plots of films like Frankenstein, Psycho, and Creature from the Black Lagoon in my sleep. I just adore those black-and-white…

  • FrightFest 2024: A Liminal Space Sci-Fi Thriller Promises ‘Things Will Be Different’

    When I see the company โ€œRustic Filmsโ€ attached to a movie, you can count on me being immediately interested. The production company is a way of saying Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, and David Lawson Jr. have given the movie youโ€™re about to see their thumbs up, and you know with that endorsement, itโ€™s likely going…

  • FrightFest 2024: All’s Fair in Love and Murder in Strange Darling

    In todayโ€™s world, your head has to be on a swivel, whether with the news, zeitgeisty trends, or Gen Z vocab, no cap. But thatโ€™s especially true in the world of online dating. Itโ€™s difficult to put yourself out there in the first place, but itโ€™s even more complex when you decide to meet in…

  • FrightFest 2024: In the Name of God Shows How Dangerous Cults Can Be

    Iโ€™m a big fan of religious horror. Whether itโ€™s cults, exorcisms, or just religious people being evil, the combination of faith and fright resonates with me on a deep level. Iโ€™m a religious guy myself, so seeing something I value so highly get twisted for nefarious purposes gives me the same horror high many fans…

  • FrightFest 2024: I Will Never Leave You Alone Is the Best Kind of Emotional Gut Punch

    Look at that featured image up there. If youโ€™re a horror fan, youโ€™re almost guaranteed to find that picture irresistible, so it should come as no surprise that I was instantly intrigued by I Will Never Leave You Alone. Iโ€™m a sucker for anything ghostly or monstrous, so even before I knew what this movie…

  • FrightFest 2024: Test Screening Rails Against Compulsory Conformity

    As I said in our FrightFest curtain raiser, I love movies about people who love movies. For example, Iโ€™m a big fan of Scream, The Monster Squad, and The Final Girls, so it should come as no surprise that Test Screening grabbed my attention the minute I heard about it. The name alone sounded like…

  • FrightFest 2024: Broken Bird Displays an Unnerving Affinity for the Dead

    You always want to start a film festival on a good note, so when I had to choose which FrightFest screener to watch first, it was a no-brainer. Broken Bird wasnโ€™t just one of my most anticipated movies of the entire festival. It was also FrightFestโ€™s opening film, so I figured it had to be…