IFI Horrorthon

Having done various breezy documentaries on off-beat cinema stories including video nasties (2004's Ban the Sadist Videos), Dan Curtis (2019's Master of Dark Shadows), Al Adamson (2019's Blood and Flesh), Nottingham lad David Gregory and…

Content Warning: references to self–harm from the very beginning "Nostalgia is Cancer" Eating Miss Campbell, the sophomore feature from Sheffield-based filmmaker Liam Regan, is a quasi-sequel to his 2014 debut My Bloody Banjo. It…

Whilst it will probably appeal to anyone who enjoys a good, engrossing mystery thriller, Jacob Gentry's Broadcast Signal Intrusion will have a particular impact on those of us who have gone down late night YouTube rabbit holes, combing…

From the early reviews coming in, it looks like Sean King O’Grady’s small-budget psychological horror is already splitting audiences. That’s probably unsurprising: We Need To Do Something seems a lot less interested in following the…

Few filmmakers are as busy as Jason Figgis. The Irish underground auteur released two features last year - the very good Urban Traffik and Don't You Recognise Me? (the opening movie at IFI's 2016 Horrorthon). He has another two slated for…

Last October, I caught an advance screening of Belgian-French horror Raw, directed by Julia Ducournau. It tells the tale of a female freshman and vegetarian who, after being forced to eat raw meat during a hazing ritual, develops an…

IFI’s Horrorthon – the annual film festival that takes place over Halloween week in the Irish Film Institute – is good for cinema. It gives devoted moviegoers the opportunity to see established or upcoming filmmakers speak openly about…