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Paul Chapinal

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My review of Game. In UK cinemas on 21 November 2025. The cast and crew will also be holding Q&As around the country. #Review
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Game

There’s little in the way of dialogue at the start of Game with the opening act built around a car accident in a rural area that has left David (Marc Bessant) hanging upside down unable to free his se...

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November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM

Paul Chapinal

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My review of A Mother's Embrace. On digital platforms from 10 November 2025. #Review
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A Mother’s Embrace (Abraço de Mãe)

This is slightly amended version of the Glasgow FrightFest 2025 review.

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November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM

Paul Chapinal

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My review of Abraham's Boys. Available on Shudder. #Review @shudder.com
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Abraham's Boys

Based on a short story by Joe Hill, Abraham’s Boys builds on the aftermath of Abraham Van Helsing’s confrontation with Dracula. Set in 1915 ten years after the death of the Count, he is now in rural C...

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November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM

Paul Chapinal

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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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November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM

Paul Chapinal

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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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November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Paul Chapinal

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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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November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM

Paul Chapinal

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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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November 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM

Paul Chapinal

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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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November 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM

Paul Chapinal

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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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November 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM

Paul Chapinal

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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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November 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Paul Chapinal

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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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November 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM

Paul Chapinal

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Film 2 today at FrightFest Halloween 2025. Affection.

November 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM

Paul Chapinal

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

November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM

Paul Chapinal

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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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October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM

Paul Chapinal

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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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September 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM

Paul Chapinal

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My London FrightFest 2025 reviews are all here. @frightfest.bsky.social #FrightFest
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August 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM

Paul Chapinal

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@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.

August 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM

Paul Chapinal

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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