Author: Luke Greensmith
This year was the 14th Grimmfest, and its 15th anniversary. It is a diverse and well respected horror festival that has a lot of the greatest talent the global indie circuit has to offer on display. We had a writer present all four days, catching most of what was on offer, and doing a spotlight
Monique leaves her family confinement during the pandemic to help a friend who suffers from terrible nightmares which, she learns too late, are contagious. Demonic entity stories are an ongoing trend in the mainstream, and hardly a new idea within the horror genre as a whole, so to be strong competition in the field requires
A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother’s voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness. Moon Garden is immediately impressive and only develops into something more special as it grows into its Dark Fantasy premise. Beautifully shot on 35mm film by writer and director Ryan
Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted, their flirtation turns playful, sexy and sinister. Hoping to get lucky, his luck may have just run out. House of Darkness needs something of a
After the tragic loss of his mother, Oliver is threatened with state custody unless he can find a new family. And so Oliver does just that… by digging one up at the local cemetery. He must now convince the social workers that he has found the perfect family – who just happen to be decomposing…
The Dead of Night Film Festival is Merseyside, England’s only dedicated horror film festival. It ran across the 1st and 2nd of October for its sixth year at The Bijou Cinema in Southport. Six feature films showed over the weekend, along with an awesome collection of horror shorts that ran before each full length film
Two tragedies combine with unforeseen consequences after Amanda retreats to the country to open an B&B following the death of her husband. With her unwilling daughter Karli in tow, misfortune finds them again as The Stranger comes to their door. Kyle has his own trauma to deal with that has followed him to the mother
An ancestry test taken on a whim reveals a sprawling British family Evie never expected. Offered an all-expenses paid trip to England as part of a wedding invitation, this whole new world in a historic mansion with a charming owner turns out to be too good to be true in a classically horrifying way. To
After the death of their father, a brother and sister must attempt to set aside their differences to settle the estate of an old family farm. Things are more complicated than they first seem, however, as a long forgotten family history begins to have strange consequences in the modern day. What these siblings don’t know
When a journalist has the breaking story of a lifetime, he discovers all is not well. Not only is there the looming threat of powerful people who may squash him like a bug, but he has also become stuck and unable to leave his bed under supernatural force. No amount of struggle seems to matter