Pigeon Shrine FrightFest UK 2024: Carnage for Christmas (2024)
Directed by Alice Maio Mackay (T-Blockers, Bad Girl Boogey, So Vam), who co-wrote the story with Benjamin Pahl Robinson, this film follows Lola (Jeremy Moineau), who returns home of Purdan for the holidays. It’s the first time she’s been back since she transitioned and the town may seem like it’s changed, but it’s also filled with […]
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest UK 2024: Cinderella’s Curse (2024)
Directed by Louisa Warren and written by Harry Boxley, Cinderella’s Curse starts with a woman named Phil (Sarah T. Cohen) asking her husband Jacob (Sam Byrne) not to kill her. He opens a book that he has taken from her, as the pages animate into existence, and Terrortures show up to serve him. This leads us […]
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest UK 2024: Video Vision (2024)
When an old VCR mysteriously shows up at digitizing facility Video Vision, Kibby (Andrea Figliomeni) starts to be affected by it. She’s also in love with a trans man named Gator (Chrystal Peterson) who brought in old VHS tapes of her father’s band destroying computers. But in spite of this new relationship, her body is […]
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest UK 2024: Strange Darling (2023)
Director and writer JT Mollner — working with producer and cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi, who shot this in 35mm — has created a twisty tale that is “one day in the twisted love life of a serial killer” yet also one that unfolds in the narrative technique that Tarantino used in Pulp Fiction. Read that as time […]
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest UK 2024: In the Name of God (2023)
Directed and written by Ludvig Gür, Gudstjänst — which is being released in the U.S. as In the Name of God — is about Theodor (Linus Walhgren), a priest who is often the only person at his masses. The worshippers are dying off and his wife Felicia (Lisa Henni) wonders if they should move on. He’s happy that […]
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest UK 2024: The Hitcher (1986)
When I first saw The Hitcher, I was probably 14 years old and saw it as a straight-ahead story of violence on the highway. I probably cheered at the end when Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) blew a hole into John Ryder (Rutger Hauer). But age and the miles wear on every man and now when […]
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest UK 2024: An Taibhse (The Ghost) (2024)
Produced by six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot) and directed by John Farrelly, this is the first Irish language horror film ever made. In 1852, during one of the worst famines in Ireland’s history, Éamon Finegan (Tom Kerrisk) and his daughter Máire (Livvy Hill) take on a caretaker role at an isolated mansion, […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Mondo Mod (1967)
Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video (August 25 – 31) Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video! Take a walk on the wild side with troublesome teenagers, sleazy sex kittens, way-out hippies, country bumpkins, big bad bikers, Mexican wrestlers, and every other variety of social deviant you can think of. As A.P. Stootsberry, Peter […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Beatniks (1960)
Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video (August 25 – 31) Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Johnny Legend’s Untamed Video! Take a walk on the wild side with troublesome teenagers, sleazy sex kittens, way-out hippies, country bumpkins, big bad bikers, Mexican wrestlers, and every other variety of social deviant you can think of. Paul Frees really did […]
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest UK 2024: The Invisible Raptor (2024)
Dr. Grant Walker (Mike Capes) is a paleontologist who discovered the fossilized anus of a raptor, the kind of artifact that should have made him a legend but instead was stolen by the Tyler Corporation — not run by Steven Tyler — and the depression that came with this loss cost him his girlfriend Amber […]
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