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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 1d

My review of Deathgasm II: Goremageddon. Screened at FrightFest Halloween 2025. #Review @frightfest.bsky.social #FrightFest www.film-news.co.uk/review/UK/63...

Deathgasm II: Goremageddon

Ten years after Deathgasm’s over the top gross, gore and grind, writer and director Jason Lei Howden has returned with a follow up.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 1d

My review of Primate. Screened at FrightFest Halloween 2025. #Review #Primate #FrightFest @paramountpictures.bsky.social @frightfest.bsky.social
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Primate

The makers don’t mess about with Primate. The opening ten minutes tells the viewer in no uncertain terms what is in store for them.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 2d

My review of Posthouse. Screened at FrightFest Halloween 2025. #Review @frightfest.bsky.social
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Posthouse

Clearing out the posthouse that he inherited from his father Cyril (Sid Lucero) come across a silent film that his father was working on. Dated from 1922 it’s a horror titled Ang Manananggal. His da...

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 3d

My review of Mag Mag. Screened at FrightFest Halloween 2025. #Review @frightfest.bsky.social @thirdwindowfilms.com #FrightFest
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Mag Mag

While there are a good many of the J-horror tropes in Mag Mag, it also crosses into the more western associated urban legend sub-genre. There’s the black-haired vengeful phantom with the added story o...

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 3d

My review of The Turkish Coffee Table. Presented at FrightFest Halloween 2025. #Review @frightfest.bsky.social
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The Turkish Coffee Table (Cam Shepa)

2022’s The Coffee Table (La Mesita del Comedor) was a ‘festival sensation’ with audiences and critics alike. Writer and director Caye Casa could have expected an English language remake for the usual ...

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 4d

My review of Affection. Screened at FrightFest Halloween 2025. #Review @frightfest.bsky.social
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Affection

Waking up from a nightmare in which she is horrifically injured then mercilessly run over, Ellie (Jessica Rothe) in convinced she is not Ellie.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 4d

My review of Every Heavy Thing. Screened at FrightFest Halloween 2025. #Review @frightfest.bsky.social
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Every Heavy Thing

Women are disappearing in Hightown City and nobody has much of an idea what to do. At the same time the city that has been earmarked for a tech makeover with the behemoths of the industry set to pump...

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 4d

My review of Dolly. Screened at FrightFest Halloween 2025. #Review @frightfest.bsky.social

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Dolly

How you reacted to the X-Files episode Home, but more so The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, may go some way to how you take to Dolly.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 5d

Film 2 today at FrightFest Halloween 2025. Affection.

Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 5d

Day 2 FrightFest Halloween 2025. Dolly @frightfest.bsky.social

Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · 9d

My review of Hell House LLC :Lineage. On Shudder from 20 October 2025. #Review
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Hell House LLC: Lineage

The Hell House series of films has gone a little under the radar for some time now. It hasn’t really established itself in the way, for example, the V/H/S series has in the second-tier of horror franc...

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Sep 22

My review of Americana. Available now on digital platforms. #Review #Americana
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Americana

There is something engaging about a young boy Cal (Gavin Maddox Bergman) who has clearly watched too many old westerns and sees himself as the incarnation of Sitting Bull.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Aug 28

My London FrightFest 2025 reviews are all here. @frightfest.bsky.social #FrightFest
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Reviews - Film News | Film-News.co.uk | Movie News & Reviews

Reviews - The Number One magazine feat. news, reviews, movie trailers, cinema, DVDs, interviews + film & movie gossip UK & worldwide.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Aug 12

@masterchefaus.bsky.social Just watching one of the programmes in New Zealand on TVNZ2 and the accompanying music is incessant and drowning out the commentary. It's ruining the programme.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Aug 8

The short film showcases are one of the highlights of FrightFest and the great news is that there are four this year. @frightfest.bsky.social #FrightFest #FF25

FrightFest @frightfest.bsky.social · Aug 7

Horror bites! FrightFest has presented the best in global genre short film since 2004, and this year’s selection highlights a record-breaking year of entries with four Short Film Showcases, all offering their own terrifying twists and turns #FF25 Details: bit.ly/45pSKo0

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Jul 30

My review of Savages. In UK cinemas on 1 August 2025. #Review #Savages #Sauvages
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Savages (Sauvages)

There are two interpretations of the term savages early on though it doesn’t take long to work out which one applies to whom.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Jul 26

My review of Zero. Out now in UK cinemas. #Review #Zero
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Zero

This is a slightly amended version of the review for Zero’s presentation at the Glasgow Film Festival 2025.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Jul 23

Rusalka at the Sydney Opera House this evening.

Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Jul 17

Trailer for Stranger Things 5, due out on Netflix 27 November 2025. #StrangerThings
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Stranger Things 5 | Official Teaser | Netflix

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Jul 14

My overview of London FrightFest 2025. #FrightFest @frightfest.bsky.social
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FrightFest London 2025 announces line-up

They have such wonders to show you, to paraphrase Clive Barker through Pinhead. For twenty six years FrightFest London has been a showcase for horror and fantasy in all its diverse glory.

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Jul 12

My review of Night Terror. Available now on digital platforms. #Review #NightTerror
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Night Terror

The scary bedtime folktale of The Sandman is a flexible myth. The entity being good and bad as the bringer of dreams or nightmares. It has been interpreted many times in many forms. The best known th...

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · Jul 12

Weekend passes for this August's @frightfest.bsky.social available from noon today #FF25 Good luck, everyone! projectedfigures.com/2025/07/10/g...

Good times in bad: preview of the August FrightFest 2025 - Projected Figures

Good times in bad: preview of the FrightFest 2025, to take place 21st to 25th August in London's Leicester Square

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thoughts on Superman. Christopher Reeves' tenure will endure forever. With this film I reckon David Corenswet, will probably bury the Cavill years. The core is familiar but in essence it's a full on reboot & quite a weird one at times. If you want it to be, it's also highly political. Recommended

Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Jul 9

My review of The Other Way Around. In UK cinemas on 11 July 2025. #Review #TheOtherWayAround
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The Other Way Around (Volveréis)

The conversation between Alex (Vito Sanz) and Ale (Itsaso Arana) while in bed one night is probably not that unusual. Their relationship is stagnant after fifteen years and they are considering splitt...

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Paul Chapinal @pchapinal.bsky.social · Jul 9

#NowWatching.
One of the great westerns. Cold in every sense of the word.