FRIGHTFEST 2020 - A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio

A NIGHT OF HORROR NIGHTMARE RADIO - Black Mandala

Frightening is perhaps an understatement to describe the horror anthology that is A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio. Consisting of nine distinctive shorts told through a short story of its own via a radio DJ, A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio is nothing short of perfectly hair-raising at every turn. 

The range of horror on offer here is distinctive and fresh in a terrific talent pool of horror directors that have been curated to craft a brilliant roster of effective short films. Not one segment feels similar to the next and with that, the viewer never gets familiar with the story being told. The resulting terror is intensified to a wonderful degree.

Vicious, directed by Oliver Park, is a segment viewers are presented within the quintessential haunted house story in all its claustrophobic glory, or there is the genuinely terrifying The Smiling Man from A.J. Briones. Yet, in the next breath, viewers are bestowed a coy and twisty tale with Into the Mud directed by Pablo S. Pastor and The Disappearance of Willie Bingham directed by Matthew Richards — two stories that tell two unconventional tales in extremely different styles and manner of impact to get under the audience's skin, not through spills and thrills but terrific storytelling. 

A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio is an exceptional example of multiple genres blended together in a terrific harmony, offering something for everyone while still remaining unequivocally horror central at every turn. This anthology cements the fact that independent horror is alive and well with a strong idea and screenplay at the helm to do the talking — and not a multitude of CGI to scare your audiences.