Arrow Video FrightFest is returning to the Cineworld Leicester Square from August 26 to August 30, 2021, for five days of the very best of global genre cinema.
The event is bringing twenty-five films to the London-based fest, which includes four world premieres and eight International / European premieres, one of which is Kevin Kopacka‘s nostalgic 70s-inspired Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, described by the festival as: “Coming on Gothic retro like an undiscovered Mario Bava S&M shocker before turning into a José Ramón Larraz acid trip.”
In the film, “Having just inherited a run-down castle, a dispirited woman and her ill-tempered husband decide to spend the night, as time and reality slowly start to shift around them.”
It stars Jeff Wilbusch, Anna Platen, Frederik von Lüttichau, and Luisa Taraz.
“Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes is my love letter to gothic horror films of the 60s and 70s, drawing inspiration from classics such as Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body or Jean Rollin’s The Iron Rose with a dash of obscure humor in the vein of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films such as Satan’s Brew and Chinese Roulette,” explained director Kevin Kopacka.
The festival says to expect an eclectic mix of psychedelic mayhem and dreamlike atmosphere with a dash of orgies and violence. Wowsers.
