Arrow Video FrightFest 2022 - Thursday August 25 – Monday 29 August 2022.
BritFlicks Podcast host and Screenwriter Stuart Wright previews Arrow Video Frightfest 2022 with Frightfest's Paul McEvoy. Here Paul gives his personal tips on how to get the best out of film festivals.
Also on the show giving an intro to their films are Rob Preciado director of CULT OF VHS, Airell Anthony Hayles director of MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW and Paul Wilkin director of THE GHOST WRITER.
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CULT OF VHS - World Premiere
101 FILMS DISCOVERY SCREEN ONE
28 AUGUST 3.45 PM
Director: Rob Preciado.
Main Cast: Graham Humphreys, David Gregory, Michael Keene, Kevin Martin
Country: USA
Outline: Why does the VHS videocassette format still hold such a fascination for young and old horror movie fans? This informative documentary explores the allure, the nostalgic artwork, straight to video titles and yes, the Video Nasties, through engaging, thought-provoking and entertaining interviews with collectors, film directors and VHS enthusiasts. Take a trip down Memorex lane with graphic artist Graham Humphreys, Severin Films head honcho David Gregory and directors Kristian A. Söderström and Josh Stifter among many others as they take us through their first experiences with the medium and what it meant to them.
MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW - World Premiere
ARROW SCREEN 26 AUGUST 11.00 PM
SHUDDER SCREEN 26 AUGUST 11.30 PM
Directed by Jake West, Airell Anthony Hayles, Andy Edwards, Ludovica Musumeci.
Main Cast: Chiara D’Anna, Richard Cotton, Sarah Diamond, Roisin Browne.
Country: UK
Outline: A Madame owns a Soho Peep Show with a difference - the sights on offer are tailor made to its customers’ deepest sinful fears. Tonight it welcomes a businessman who has a unique connection to an extreme fantasy website. He becomes witness to three stories of victims that found the website. But now the Midnight Peepshow has found him, it’s only a matter of time before he’s made to pay the ultimate price for dabbling in the dark side of desire. This is a twisted portmanteau horror threesome exploring the nightmare side of psychosexual fantasy.
THE GHOST WRITER - World Premiere
101 FILMS DISCOVERY SCREEN THREE
28 AUGUST 6.30 PM
Directed by Paul Wilkins.
Main Cast: Luke Mably, Andrea Deck, Brendon Patricks, Robert Portal.
Country: UK
Outline: Struggling writer Gilliger Graham must produce a hit novel to save his career. Decamping to his old family home, where his father, once a very successful writer, died under mysterious circumstances, he stumbles across an old hidden manuscript - his father's unfinished, last novel. He soon realises the novel is better than anything he can write himself and decides to plagiarise the book. Then, his real troubles begin.
One of Paul McEvoy must-see films of FrightFest 2022
NEW RELIGION - World Premiere
101 FILMS DISCOVERY SCREEN THREE
29 AUGUST 1.30 PM
Directed by Keishi Kondo.
Main Cast: Kaho Seto, Satoshi Oka, Ryuseigun Saionji, Daiki Nunami.
Country: Japan
Outline: After her daughter's death, divorced Miyabi works as a call girl. One day, she meets a weird customer who wants to take a picture of her spine. Then, at another assignation, her feet. She soon realises that every time she allows her body to be photographed, her daughter’s spirit gets closer. Soon only her eyes remain to be captured, leading to the collapse of society in this bold, visionary and unique fantasy from a new and culture-shocking Japanese voice.
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