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September 7, 2024

Dead Northern Festival 2024 Review – Kill Victoria

Drowning in sordid secrets and lies, hellbent on delivering devilish antics and driving tension to a delightfully unbearable peak is Kill Victoria.  This thrilling rollercoaster follows a group of friends composed of couples Paula (Sara Canning) and Pete (Michael Xavier), Jacky (Gia Sandhu) and Nigel (Robin Dunne), along with the incessantly single Nick (Aaron Poole). […]

September 7, 2024

Dead Northern Festival 2024 Review – Scopophobia

Scopophobia: the daunting fear of being watched. This anxiety-inducing sense of being eyeballed by someone or something is what filmmaker Aled Owen’s feature chronicles and captures throughout the intense, cryptic and thrilling Scopophobia.  Rhiannon (Catrin Jones), Erin (Emma Stacey), Mia (Ellen Jane-Thomas) and Sam (Bethany Williams-Potter), a once tight-knit group of friends, reunite in their […]

September 7, 2024

Dead Northern Festival 2024 Review – The Stickman’s Hollow

The Stickman’s Hollow resembles a multifaceted labyrinth, feeding its complex story bit by bit, acting like a serpentine. It is the slow feed of a terrifying story, the intricate weaving of eerie details and the intimate mode of filmmaking that make this found footage horror unmissable.  The film chronicles three connected chapters following a series […]

September 5, 2024

Dead Northern Festival 2024 Review – All This Time

All This Time chronicles the infinite time loop that Grace (Emily Rose Holt) has found herself trapped in. Joined by an elusive vampire, Elias (Dan de Bourg), Grace must unravel a string of veiled secrets to escape the treacherously eerie time glitch and return to normality. Writer and director Rob Worsey delivers a standout, complex […]

September 5, 2024

Dead Northern 2024 Festival Review – Kill Your Lover

Directing duo Alix Austin and Keir Siewert deliver a gnarly, grotesque, and emotionally raw feat of tainted love, where body horror and a cerebral narrativisation collide together to create the must-see ‘Kill Your Lover’.  Strained couple Axel (Shane Quigley Murphy) and Dakota (Paige Gilmour) have long lost the passion that oozed from their early days […]

August 3, 2024

Review – MaXXXine (2024) – Spoiler Free

Mia Goth, the current apple of horror’s eye, once again excels in her second time taking on the devilishly slick and meticulously deep character of Maxine Minx, an ex-adult film star who, after the deadly massacre in X (2022), takes Hollywood by storm. However, after a string of brutal murders by a mysterious killer strikes […]

July 20, 2024

Review – Longlegs (2024) Spolier Free

Written and directed by Osgood Perkins is Longlegs, the new horror film on the lips of seemingly everyone, following an FBI agent, Lee Harker (Maika Monroe), who has been tasked with solving the mystery behind the ‘Longlegs’ killer before they strike again.  Perkins understands dread, fear, panic, terror, and alarm, to name a few of […]

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