Tag Archives: FGBFF 2018

This short is directed by Justine Raczkiewicz who also co-wrote the screenplay along with Amelia Gray. The cast includes Luke Baines and Sarah Bartholomew. Official Synopsis for Waste: Roger lives a grim and detached life, picking up medical waste for a living, but looks forward to his evening conversations with …

I’ve watched a plethora of shorts for the 2018 Final Girls Berlin Festival and they’ve all be exceptionally extraordinary. I recently watched my first full feature from the festival, The Book of Birdie. Did it live up to the rest? This bizarre new tale is directed by storyboard artist Elizabeth …

This film intrigued me right from the start with this description: “The Contest is a twisted homage to the wonderful and strange Twin Peaks and cherry pie.” I knew right away that this was one I wanted to watch. The Contest is a female driven dark comedy short that runs …

When asked to review Isabel Stanfield and Stephanie Liquorish’s horror short Hobby Shop for the 2018 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I hadn’t heard of either filmmaker at the time, so I had nothing to prepare me for what I was about to watch. …

Sometimes you never what you’re going to get when diving into a film. This has undoubtedly been the case when watching shorts and features for the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival. The most recent one I watched was called Devil Is On His Way. The short was written and directed …

How far would you go to for fame and success? Some will give everything even if it costs others their lives. Something like this happens in the recent horror short I watched called The Penny Dropped. Another amazing short from the Final Girls Berlin Festival. This intensely dark short was directed and …

The forest. The dark. It encloses you into a naturally creepy environment. Four girls alone in the woods decide to play a game of Spotlight. It is a game of hide and seek with a flashlight. You have a person who is It. They count backwards and when they reach …

I wasn’t sure exactly what this movie was going to be about. I love horror stories that involve road trips. For me, I come up with the best horror scenarios when driving through dark, desolate areas. So much could happen out in the middle of nowhere. You could run out …

In 1989, the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was executed by electric chair in Florida. He admitted to killing at least 30 young women and young girls. On the eve of his execution, there was a tailgate party in a field across from the prison. Laura Moss’s film Fry Day uses …

“Blood to blood, sister to sister…” Bonding can be a beautiful thing. That is, if you’re not performing a ritual to do so! As we dive into this year’s Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, we review one of the submitted short films, Blood Sisters!  (Synopsis provided by IMDb.com): Two friends (Emma …