The Reign of Queen Ginnarra

Brilliant story that hits you right way, especially that it's delivered by such a great actors! Extremely dark, heavily inspired by Amicus/Hammer (any if you're a fan of these you will definitely enjoy this movie) yet very fresh and unique take on horror! I love how this movie has a great balance between borowing from genre classics in a way that they almost pay a tribute to horrors we all love and creating new, unique ideas.

Shots and scenes are simply beautiful, very artistic, like a gothic paintings.

Give this a watch , we have to support projects like this. British Horror Studio, thank you!

A great epic film in typical style from Lawrie Brewster, British Horror Studio effortlessly create a world and environment for these fantasy epics that draws you in, a world where power matters over morals. Fighting, dragons, destruction and tragedy, its all on the screen.

As ever Megan Tremethick is mesmerising, playing it deadpan but i actually saw anger in the eyes at the same time, without pity, I have experienced pure evil in a film!

This great team continues to give the world great films and Im especially looking forward to their Amicus production 'In The Grip Of Terror' the fist Amicus film in 48 years! Exciting times.

After the slaying of his father, the king, Prince Eldoran (Andrew Gourlay)flees his kingdom.

The latter is now under the control of his sister Queen Ginnarra (Megan Tremethick), and through her, dark forces.

The Queen sends her brutal henchmen to torture and slowly kill her brother.

Although the Prince survives the attacks, he suffers betrayals as he re-enters his father's kingdom to free it from his sister.

Certainly more epic than director Laurie Brewster and main star Megan Tremethick's 2024 comedic 'Slave and the Sorceror', 'Queen Ginnarra' doesn't have the same cathartic resolution.

The special effects are on a par with television/cinema offerings.

The acting, especially the fight scenes are quite believable.

It's evident that a lot of time and effort has been devoted to the film by everyone involved.

I watch Queen Ginnarra at the Romford Horror Festival. I wanted to support independent film makers and having watched 'The Slave and the Sorcerer' last year, which was also directed by Lawrie Brester and starring Megan Tremethick and Stephen Kerr, I was keen to see what new work the team had brought out.

I was somewhat sceptical at first having seen the run time of 2 hours and 20 minutes, however that time flew by and there was never a dull moment

What struck me initially was what the team were able to do with the budget. It was of a much higher quality than I expected. Moreover, the acting was superb, played with earnestness. Megan Tremethick's performance was certainly a standout performance.

The movie centred around power, family, dragons and betrayal. None of the characters were one dimensional, all of them had many layers and able to portray strength juxtaposed with vulnerability.

For the budget they were able to pull off excellent choreographed fight scenes and superb animation was employed where the budget did not allow.

A movie I will defiantly watch again, and I would recommend to anyone who enjoys medieval fantasy epics.

I watched this film at the Romford Horror Film Festival. It is truly epic in scale yet it is grounded in the terrifying prospect of the power of amoral, indifferent gods being used to buttress tyranny. This is all very pertinent to the times that we currently live in which shocks us daily with it's increasingly naked exercise of power.

Particular credit must go to Megan Tremethick for her chilling yet magnetic performance as the titular queen. Her presence holds the film together as she compells you to stare every further into the dark heart of her will to power. I found that the film stayed with me for days after I finished watching it.