Blu-ray Review – Frightmare

The plot of "Frightmare" (also known as "The Horror Star") is so delicious, so ripe with potential, it's almost enough to carry the feature on its own. A loving tribute to horror cinema, with all its shadowy encounters and ghoulish events, the effort has its heart in the right place, cooking up a premise that places die-hard fans in the middle of their very own scary movie. It's a long night of survival for a group of dim college students, yet the nightmare never finds a particularly gripping momentum, with writer/director Norman Thaddeus Vane so involved in creating atmosphere, he forgets to sustain tension throughout the feature. "Frightmare" is terrifically shot and the lead performance from screen veteran Ferdy Mayne is appropriately grandiose, but the production needs a little more air in its tires, often found slogging along with genre elements that demand a more animated execution. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com