Arrow Video brings to you, from August 26 to August 30, 2021, FrightFest. Fright Fest is the UK’s biggest fantasy film festival and will return to Cineworld Leicester Square for five days of the best in worldwide genre cinema.
Kevin Kopacka‘s nostalgic 70s-inspired Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, described by the festival as a movie which is coming on Gothic retro like an undiscovered Mario Bava S&M shocker before turning into a José Ramón Larraz acid trip, is one of the twenty-five films coming to the London-based fest.
Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes is director Kevin Kopacka’s ode to 1960s and 1970s gothic horror flicks. It takes inspiration from classics like Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body and Jean Rollin’s The Iron Rose, as well as obscure humour from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s works like Satan’s Brew and Chinese Roulette.
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The film depicts a couple who, after inheriting a run-down castle, decide to spend the night there, as time and reality begin to twist around them. “Eternity awaits” them in the castle and they are met with all sorts of supernatural and mind-bending scenes. It is a German mystery-horror film which is sure to keep us on our toes.
Jeff Wilbusch, Anna Platen, Frederik von Lüttichau, and Luisa Taraz feature in the film in key roles.
Expect a diverse blend of hallucinogenic mayhem and dreamlike environment with a splash of orgies and violence, according to the festival. Seems like a fever dream but one that is worth the watch, even if its simply out of curiosity.
Despite the disruptions created by the pandemic, the internationally recognised event continues to demonstrate the breadth of the genre, and this year is no exception as the twenty-five films to be shown on the big screens are revealed, four global premieres and eight international/European premieres are among them.