Buck Theorem's Hide-out

William Friedkin, 1977, USA This is like Georges Arnaud’s ‘Le salaire de la peur’ imagined as a straightforward thriller by Werner He...

'Le salaire de la peur'  Henri-Georges Clouzot, b/w, France Courzot’s adaptation of Georges Arnaud’s novel is rightly held ...

John Frankenheimer, 1966, USA As a kid, John Frankenheimer’s ‘Seconds’ always gave me serious chills. Not only did this come from the g...

Denis Villeneuve, 2017,  USA-UK-Canada I know it’s going to take second watch to fully determine what I think of Villeneuve’s con...

Eric Red, 1988, USA There was a time in my youth when my friends and I would drawl “Piss on you!” in terrible Southern American twangs,...

The Beast ~ La Bête Walarian Borowczyk, 1975, France It’s the typical poster of some beauty in the infernal clutches of a monster/...

Bar Bahar Maysaloun Hamoud (writer/director), 2016, Israel-France In Tel Aviv, three women share an apartment and try to find the...

Darren Aronofsky, 2017, USA The trailer for ‘mother!’ was shown frequently at FrightFest 2017 and it seemed to be a home invasion/s...

‘Kaos’ Vittorio & Paolo Taviani, 1982, Italy/France The films of the Taviani brothers are abundant with beautiful images, but w...

Exists Eduardo Sanchez, 2014, USA ‘Exists’ is a pretty average monster horror. It suffers, as these things tend to do, from unre...

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne Dr Jekyll and the Women Docteur Jekyll et les Femmes Walerian Borowczyk, 1981...

This is all about the FrightFest main screen. More than ever, it seemed that people came to applaud bad guys meeting gory and despi...

When I started coming to FrightFest, I remember it started off as an experience of maybe sitting through two or three films before a good o...