MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW (2022) Reviews of British horror anthology – now with US release news – Beragampengetahuan

‘Sometimes you can’t look away’
Midnight Peepshow is a 2022 British horror anthology film about a businessman who experiences three stories connected to a fantasy website.

Directed by Andy Edwards (Punch; Ibiza Undead), Airell Anthony Hayles (Werewolf Santa; The Krampus Calendar; They’re Outside), Ludovica Musumeci and Jake West (Doghouse; Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes; Evil Aliens; Razor Blade Smile) from a screenplay co-written by Andy Edwards, Airell Anthony Hayles and Jake West. Produced by Vinod Malgewar. Executive produced by Airell Anthony Hayles and Dovile Kirvelaityte.

The GoViddo-Golden Gate Motion Pictures-The Haunted Cinema production stars Zach Galligan, Ryan Oliva, Chiara D’Anna, Derek Nelson, Richard Cotton, Bethan Walker, Ocean M Harris, Dylan Baldwin, Jamie Bacon, Mark Hampton, Sarah Diamond, Miki Davis, Kit Shirley, Roisin Browne, Georgina Bitmead, Tatiana Franic, Crispin Holland, Beatrice May, Christopher Lloyd James, Jack Fairbank and Rusty Egan.

Plot:
A madame owns a London Soho peepshow with a difference – the sights on offer are tailor-made to its customers’ deepest sinful fears. Tonight it welcomes a businessman who has a unique connection to an extreme fantasy website. He becomes witness to three stories of victims who found the website.

However, now the Midnight Peepshow has found him, it’s only a matter of time before he’s made to pay the ultimate price for dabbling in the dark side of desire…

Reviews:
“Despite the promotional material which implies – like any half-decent peepshow advert – that we are going to get a glimpse of something truly unusual, the sexual fantasies addressed here are pretty common ones […] There’s not a great deal of depth to the adjacent narrative, but the film holds together pretty well, the pacing is good, and Cotton keeps us caring.” Eye for Film

“As low-budget horror anthologies go Midnight Peepshow is a fair effort, yet held back by its conceptual flimsiness. With a stronger wraparound story and more potent throughline across the shorts, the filmmakers just might’ve been onto something here.” ★★½ Flickering Myth

“Here, sexual fantasies are always immoral; they are tools of manipulation, or they originate from past trauma […] In the world of Midnight Peepshow, both the worker and the buyer must be punished. Perhaps the directors did not think so deeply about the implications. Perhaps Midnight Peepshow is simply a shallow exploitation film.” Grimoire of Horror

“There are more connections between Graham and the women’s stories, though they don’t begin to become clear until late in the gate. This interconnectivity helps sell the wraparound, Midnight Peepshow almost passing as one cohesive whole rather than several little bits […] If the title and wraparound setting haven’t given it away, Midnight Peepshow revolves around our fascinations with sex, seduction and monagomy.” ★★★ The Hollywood News

“Midnight Peepshow brings us three main short horror stories, each connected to a mysterious Black Rabbit society. It is smartly connected, rather than a basic introduction, as it explores the world Graham finds himself drawn into. The effects in each short are great, with a series of strong disturbing fantasies.” 4 out of 4, Movie Reviews 101

” …a very bleak, very twisted look at love, sex and relationships; in a film that gets darker and more perverted as it goes on, ending with a brilliant morally nihilistic conclusion. A conclusion that speaks not only to the film but also to the current socio-political climate, where the rich get richer off the backs of others – their suffering, their torment – without so much as a consideration for their actions or the consequences thereof.” ★★★★★ Nerdly

“Gaudily stylised as an endless come-on to viewers, Midnight Peepshow also presents a very ugly picture of their (our!) passing trade. For Graham’s walk on the wild side is also all at once a dark journey down memory lane and (implicitly) an OD-induced guilt trip, where the nexus of all those affected by this investor’s past decisions comes back to haunt him in his final moments on the Soho back-alleys. Here, sex sells, money talks and looks can kill.” Projected Figures

“Each story makes the viewer complicit in its nastiness. Like the websites alluded to in the movie, by watching we are both taking part and taking pleasure in what’s occurring. That’s not to say the filmmakers are moralising – far from it, this is exploitation pure and simple, but it still allows for a little food for thought when it comes to the more extreme elements of cinema.” Starburst

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Release:
In the US, Midnight Peepshow will be released by Dark Star Pictures on Digital and DVD on February 13, 2024.

Trailer:
There is currently still no trailer available for Midnight Trailer which is baffling; it seems they don’t want to promote it properly…

Cast and characters:
Zach Galligan … Games Master
Ryan Oliva … The Black Rabbit
Jamie Bacon … Maxwell
Mark Hampton … Miles
Derek Nelson … Chester
Richard Cotton … Graham
Ocean M Harris … Joe
Dylan Baldwin … Peter
Bethan Walker … Cheshire Cat
Chiara D’Anna … Madame
Crispin Holland … John
Rusty Egan … The DJ
Miki Davis … Helen
Roisin Browne … Alice
Beatrice May … Larissa
Sarah Diamond … Isabel
Iona Stewart-Richardson … Bartender
Kit Shirley … Natasha
Jack Fairbank … Liam
Georgina Bitmead … Valentina
Christopher Lloyd James … Brian
Tatiana Franic … Girlfriend
Melanie Thompson … Jill

Technical specs:
1 hour 37 minutes

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