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BritFlicks' Top 10 Indie Film Trailers 1st September 2019.

August 2019 saw a total of 341,833 trailer views on the BritFlicks YouTube Channel, although we have had issues with YouTube as they have removed one of our most popular trailers. We are appealing this decision and hope to have it back soon!   The Top 5 countries tuning in were the UK (14.8%), United States (13.3%), Turkey (6.7%) and Indie (4.5%). By gender it was Male (69.9%), Female (30.1%). If you would like BritFlicks to host your feature film trailer or to...

Indie Films Released In Cinemas, DVD & Digital During September 2019.

Here's a look at some of the British and international indie films being released during August 2019, in Cinemas, on Disc & Digital. If we have missed any titles that you would like included, then please let us know by email contacts@britflicks.com You can help BritFlicks & indie film by subscribing to the Britflicks YouTube Channels, BritFlicks for film trailers and BritFlicksExtra for behind the scenes....

Bryan Larkin's Award-Winning Action Series DEAD END II - A JUSTIFIED KILL Hits Film Festival Circuit.

When Scottish BAFTA-winning actor Bryan Larkin was cast as corrupt police chief Ernest Hunt in the Donnie Yen/Andy Lau movie CHASING THE DRAGON (2017), he had no idea it would inspire him to create a franchise of short films, and the ultimate goal of a linked feature film. Bryan’s film-maker’s eye was excited by cinematic Hong Kong street-life and he joined up with fellow 'Chasing the Dragon' cast member Julian Gaertner and local photographer Thomas Sandfield to start creating his own s...

Former Editor of BFI’s ‘Sight & Sound’ Magazine Nick James Gives Us His 5 Great British Films 1997-2019.

BritFlicks Podcast host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks with Nick James as he looks back on 21 Years as the Sight and Sound editor and highlights 5 Great British Films that were released during that time. ...

Independent Film Streaming Platform FILM AHOY Announces New Movie Titles For September.

FILM AHOY has confirmed their latest slate of films for September. Ranging from Sci-Fi’s and action thrillers, LGBT romances and coming of age dramas, FILM AHOY aims to host films to suit all ages and tastes. The cream of the crop includes Wu Tang's Kung Fu action thriller FIST OF UNICORN, including Kung Fu cinemas top names, like Whang In Shik, Jackie Chan, Gee Han Jay, Alan Hsu and even Bruce Lee. For fans of animation, users can discover the hidden gem LOVESICK FOOL: LOV...

THE LAST FAUST Starring Steven Berkoff Released On Digital Platforms 18th November 2019.

Artist and filmmaker Philipp Humm has announced that THE LAST FAUST, starring British screen and theatre icon Steven Berkoff, (Octopussy, The Tourist, Harvey, Shakespeare's Villians) will be released on VOD, on 18th November 2019. The film will premiere in London and Berlin on November 13th and 14th. This 108 minute arthouse feature film is the only definitive filmed version of Goethe's epic drama, Faust 1&2, making the release a world first. The film is a vital component of Humm’s G...

Naeem Mahmood's Horror IN2RUDERS Released On Amazon Prime Video.

Award-winning filmmaker Naeem Mahmood follows his breakout debut feature film, Brash Young Turks with a new psychological horror short film: IN2RUDERS. IN2RUDERS is a mind-bending nightmare about the dark side of the pop music industry. When Lumi and Narti (played by the Bloom Twins), a twin sister pop sensation refuse to sign to a sinister record label, run by Ravana Serpentine (played by Caprice), their fortunes suddenly take a turn for the worst. As one twin descends into the dark depths...

BRITFLICKS AWARDS - Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Best Of The Fest.

Art is not a competitive sport – so the lists of widely different films below, aren’t ranked in any order. They are subjective choices made by one person, me, Stuart Wright, podcast host and Britflicks’ horror person in the trenches of Frightfest 2019. It is based on watching 46 of the 78 films on offer. The aim of this final report is simple - shine a light on the interesting ideas and choices filmmakers are making in 21st century genre cinema. Hopefully my personal favourites encour...

THE BLACK STRING - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review

Written by Brian Hanson and Richard Handley; Story by Andy Warner Directed by Brian Hanson The first thing that strikes you with THE BLACK STRING is the empathy Jonathan’s face demands. He’s a guy whose quiet suffering and pain bounces off the screen. From the first time you meet Jonathan (a very good Frankie Muniz), working a lonely shift at a – in his own defiant words to his parents– “Lifestyle convenience boutique” you’re with him. He isolates himself from everyone around him (...

Trailer Drops For Darren S. Cook's Essex Crime Movie, LUCAS & ALBERT.

LUCAS & ALBERT is written by Robert Putt and A.G.Longhurst and is the first film from their newly formed company Longhurst and Putt Productions Ltd. The Film is based on two characters from the stage play Babysitters also written by Robert Putt and A.G.Longhurst and tells the story of their version of events of what went on from the point of view in Babysitters....

A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written by Ronan Blaney Directed by Abner Pastoll In 2015 director Abner Pastoll took Frightfesters onto the lost highways of France with horror icon Barbara Crampton. To close 2019’s 20th anniversary celebrations of Frightfest he’s exposes you to the harsh realities of a housing estate in Northern Ireland. Here we find Sarah, a recently widowed young mother, played by Sarah Bolger – the titular star of EMELIE (2015). She’s just about holding her life together, when an opportunistic pett...

RABID - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written by John Serge, Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska Directed by The Soska Sisters… Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska As the poster artwork tells you, RABID is a re-imagining of David Cronenberg’s classic plastic surgery disaster/contagion movie from 1977. Where once you had the porn star Marilyn Chambers (BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR) as Rose Miller, today the Soska Sisters – Jen and Sylvia – lend the name to their lead star Laura Vandervoort (Anna in JIGSAW). The first of many subtle nods the body h...

THE BARGE PEOPLE - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written by Christopher Lombard Directed by Charlie Steeds Who knew the glorious British countryside could be so life-threatening? Google it. You’ll find nothing more to fear than an adder biting you or ticks to make you itch. For THE BARGE PEOPLE, director Charlie Steeds pits two sisters and their boyfriends up against angry, resentful locals, but the real threat to their weekend break, are the flesh-eating fish mutants lurking in the water. Genre folk know the score. This is the classic explo...

TALES FROM THE LODGE - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written and directed by Abigail Blackmore As the title suggests, with its respectful nod to TALES FROM THE CRYPT, this film is a portmanteau. Stories are shared of an anonymous killer, a future zombie apocalypse, ghost hunts and an absurdly horrific heart transplant performed in front a trash rock band. All the while we keep returning to the place writer/director Abigail Blackmore starts her debut feature - an isolated lodge by a lake. It is here you spend most of the film watching and waiting a...

THE PERISHED - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written and directed by Paddy Murphy THE PERISHED focuses on a happy go lucky Irish student called Sarah Dekker and her discovery she’s pregnant – out of wedlock. Her misery starts before she even gets the chance to announce it, when her boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her. It doesn’t take long for the ‘bad’ news to reach her Catholic zealot mother, played with wicked and cruel fervour by Noelle Clarke. In a wonderful display of religious hypocrisy she rages at Sarah for the shame she ...

SATANIC PANIC - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written by Grady Hendrix; Story by Ted Geoghegan Directed by Chelsea Stardust Comedy/horror SATANIC PANIC is like being hit in the face by a beautiful, strawberry-scented baseball bat. It hurts your eyes, but the smell is so good you want to go back and experience more. In this case it isn’t the smell, of course, but the absurdly funny – but by no means tame – violence you repeatedly witness. Innocent pizza-delivery driver (Hayley Griffith) is sent to a rich neighbourhood, but somehow beco...

Documentary LIFE'S A BEACH Now Free To View On Amazon Prime In UK, US, AU, Canada & NZ.

BritFlicks is delighted to share the news that our indie documentary LIFE'S A BEACH, is now FREE to view on Amazon Prime in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.  THE GUARDIAN "A picture-perfect documentary detailing a threat to the idyll of an English eccentric." LIFE'S A BEACH was an official selection at the Glasgow Film Festival, East End Film Festival and Toronto beaches Film Festival. Featuring the music of Rudy, Zenon & Shane Warman, LIFE'S A BEACH follows the life...

BULLETS OF JUSTICE - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review

Written by Valeri Milev and Timur Turisbekov Directed by Valeri Milev Writer/director Valeri Milev takes you on a wild ride into a dark dystopia, where world war three rages. But this is no ordinary version of ‘wild’, this revolves around a secret military project – code name ‘Army Bacon’. This absurd side bar about inbreeding between humans and pigs in order to create a super soldier has led to hybrids, known as Muzzies. They are now farming humans like animals. The last hope for mank...

THE MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION OF MICHAEL REEVES - Arrow Video Frightfest Film Review.

Written by Kat Ellinger Directed by Dima Ballin Regular listeners to the Britflicks.com #5GreatBritishHorrorFilms podcast series will know what high regard WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968) is held. It’s a genuine masterpiece of the genre form, by Michael Reeves, a promising director born in Sutton, Surrey. It was his third feature film, but just twelve months after it was released he was dead, aged just 25, from an accidental overdose of pills he was taking to curb his depression and insomnia. Howev...

EAT BRAINS LOVE - Arrow Video Frightfest Review.

Written by Mike Herro, David Strauss; adapted from the original novel UNDEAD WITH BENEFITS by Jeff Hart Directed by Rodman Flender This zombie rom-com throws together the unlikely pairing of stoner, lazy good-for-nothing dreamer Jake Stephens and the hottest – in his opinion - girl in school, Amanda Blake on a flesh-eating road trip. Like IT FOLLOWS the danger comes from having sex with a carrier, but instead of cursing you with the dilemma of whether to pass it further on, EAT, BRAINS, LOVE�...

DANIEL ISN’T REAL - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written by Brian DeLeeuw & Adam Egypt Mortimer; adapted from Brian DeLeeuw’s novel IN THIS WAY I WAS SAVED Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer When Luke was six years-old, he escaped the shouts and smashing crockery of his bickering parents to wander the calm midtown Manhattan streets near his home. Unfortunately, this innocent child inadvertently witnesses the aftermath of a mass shooting in a café. Staring into the dead eyes of a blood soaked victim flopped out on the street, he meets Daniel, a...

SPIRAL - Arrow Video Frightfest Review.

Written by Colin Minihan & John PoliquinDirected by Kurtis David HarderSPIRAL starts with a – literal – cold opening of a queer-bashing scene in a 1985 snowy parking lot before leaping ten years into the future. In 1995 it’s the gentle drive in to small town USA by gay dads – Aaron and Malik - and their sixteen year old daughter Kayla. Malik, played by Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, is the former big city, club kid, drag queen, who has stole the heart of much older Aaron – the natur...

HAPPY FACE - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written by Joelle Bourjoy, Alexandre Franchi Directed by Alexandre Franchi Overweight Vanessa heads up a group therapy session for people with extreme and visual facial/medical scars – the kind that, sadly, make too many people stop and stare. Among them is Augustine, his hood up, face contorted behind bandages pulled taut across his face. Everyone is worried about leaving their comfort zone. Every day tasks like walking into a bar and ordering a round of drinks are mountains to climb for thes...

VOLITION - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written by Tony Dean Smith, Ryan W Smith Directed by Tony Dean Smith VOLITION throws you into the nightmare world of James. His gift of clairvoyance is more of a curse given he discovered his magic powers when he had a vision of his mother’s death and did nothing about it - that’s naturally led to a lifetime of regret. He’s cooped up in his apartment, one wall, inexplicably covered in notes and reminders like Guy Pierce’s body in MEMENTO. He’s late with his rent and his landlord is bus...

THE DRONE - Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Film Review.

Written by Al Kaplan, Jon Kaplan and Jordan Rubin Directed by Jordan Rubin THE DRONE is a weird, tongue-in-cheek film from ZOMBEAVERS director, Jordan Rubin. It’s full of ridiculous contrivances that just about enable the film to chug on like a rusty jeep with three flat tyres, but lets be honest, no one is coming here for the subtext or raw emotion, are they? It’s a film where a drone propeller lacerates an old man’s arse in the bath. You’re watching THE DRONE for the laughs. A newlywed...