Ready Player Gun – The Hunt and the most influential movie ever made?
This feature was first written when The Hunt was one of the few new films in cinemas. Cinemas that are now closed. What a difference a week makes… But, by…
Category: Features
An in-depth look at the movies that matter.
Top 10 Films of 2019
2019 may have had many problems, but cinema wasn’t one. The decade closed with a banner year for movies, so much so that our 11-20 list in any other year…
Harpoon Hits The Arrow Video Channel
After making quite a splash at this year’s Arrow Video FrightFest, Rob Grant’s Harpoon arrives on The Arrow Video Channel from Friday 18th October… Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote, Hell is…
Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 Round-Up
The Arrow Video FrightFest 2019 came, delighted and went. Let us take time to reflect upon a fantastic 20th anniversary weekend for the UK’s premiere horror film festival. Indulge us…
Will Power: Tony Dean Smith Talks Volition
A standout movie at the 2019 Arrow Video FrightFest was Tony Dean Smith’s Volition. Co-written with Smith’s brother Ryan, this cerebral sci-fi thriller has reviewers drawing parallels with Looper, Inception…
Ghosts in the Machine: Graham Hughes Talks Death of a Vlogger
One of the brightest gems playing the 2019 Arrow Video FrightFest is Graham Hughes’ Death of a Vlogger. Cannily spinning fresh ideas into the mockumentary and found footage genres, it…
Must-See Movies at FrightFest 2019
Horror fans will rejoice (and possibly feel a little old) this August Bank Holiday. The legendary Arrow Video FrightFest is marking twenty bloody good years of terror… and it is…
2018 – Rewind and Re-View
Time thwarted us and we didn’t get chance to write up a review of 2017. We weren’t going to allow a second year to pass without forcing our opinion of…
Vincent Kamp’s The Long Game Exhibition
At Electric Shadows, we like art of all stripes. Particularly when that art is infused with an achingly cool sense of noir. A painter who has recently grabbed our…
2018 London Film Festival – Mid-Festival Round-Up
An exquisite torture when attending the London Film Festival is working out how many movies can be viewed over the twelve days before physical shut down occurs. Two or three…