1+ week, 28+ min ago   (859+ words) Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, returns to its regular home at Manchester’s Odeon Great Northern from 8–11 October for four ferociously full-on days of the best in genre cinema. Hammer’s 1958 DRACULA (aka HORROR OF DRACULA), directed by Terence Fisher,…...

2+ week, 57+ min ago   (275+ words) Bloody Flicks When we first meet Alice (Lucy Lovegrove), a midwife by profession, she’s being let down lightly, being described as good at her job and committed to her patients, despite what she’s been through. “You just need time”, she’s…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (380+ words) The Peril at Pincer Point review (Frightfest 2026) bloody-flicks.co.uk This beautifully crafted fable tips its creative hat to the nitrate shadowed films of Guy Maddin and sometimes appears like a low-budget David Eggers movie. The creation of co-director Jake…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (347+ words) Bloody Flicks Ben and Nathan McQuaid’s debut feature is a fabulously DIY sci fi comedy leaning heavily into Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste for its story of an attempted alien takeover. The ‘G’ of the title refers to Glasgow, home for…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (374+ words) Bloody Flicks Sarah Appleton has successfully established herself as a chronicler of the fantastic genre both on Blu-ray extras and film, with recent documentaries on J horror and found footage movies. Her latest is a long-overdue look at the amazing…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (256+ words) Bloody Flicks The impressively named Conscian Morgan’s debut feature starts off as it definitely doesn’t mean to go on: Felix (Ryan Ralph Gerrard) a criminal (and estranged father), mixed up with some bad people, makes his escape by diving into…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (414+ words) By David Dent James Owen’s debut feature, 2022’s Bite, saw a couple of con artists hiding out in the house of an elderly woman, with murderous results. Four years on and arguably he reuses the same setup, but in this…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (307+ words) By David Dent The cinema of transgression relies, for its effect, on a combination of unusual images, shock, disturbing subtexts and a general visual pummelling. All but the most extreme titles eventually succumb to the adage that ‘the old immorality…...