FrightFest

Thanks! A fairly limited list of films, as you say. The first couple of those, I can't remember if I saw tham at FF or elsewhere. Pretty sure I saw Donnie Darko at the London Film Festival, but my memory is hazy. It would've been interesting to look at more of the films and the changes over the year...

I'm a little sorry I didn't watch this.

Does it go much into the year-by-year history - the changing venues, additional screens, particular films - or is it mainly recently-shot talking heads saying how great everything is?

I don't really understand the rationale for dumping the Q&As. The extended intros "wasted" almost as much time - we barely had time to eat on any of the four main days - and were, by necessity, much less informative. As for the argument of people walking out in front of guests, I'm sure they've been...

What Keeps You Alive
The Dark
Summer of 84
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Incident in a Ghostland

Bubbling under: Upgrade and Killing God. And I'll mention Braid because nobody seemed to like it.

I'm not sure the time travel paradoxes really made any sense - and I certainly can't be bothered to think about it - but I did enjoy it a lot. At times I thought the leading man wasn't quite up to carrying the film, but the guy playing the main villain was superb.

I thought it was very good indeed... but at the same time I didn't totally connect with it. I certainly couldn't call it one of the top 10 FrightFest films of all time, as Mr McEvoy was telling us. The (spoilerised) final scene referred to above felt rather cheesy, I knew it would end just like that...

bad acting (yes, even Claire Higgins' overcooked performance, although she's better than the blocks of wood that populate the rest of the film) You reminded me to check if Hannah Arterton is related to Gemma Arterton - turns out she's her sister. Without wishing to be too unkind, one of those sibli...

I enjoyed this one at the time, but it seems to be fading in my memory pretty fast.... I think the filmmakers thought they were making something dark and serious and it did indeed start promisingly, but it all got pretty silly by the end. Shelly's motivations and intentions were all a bit vague, per...

I enjoyed it, but - ignoring the more extreme violence and the ending - I saw it as the pilot for a Six Million Dollar Man meets Knight Rider TV series. With a bit of Batman and Daredevil thrown in. His mum - as a sort of Alfred - and the cop who suspects him of being a crimefighter, but can never p...

Quite well done, and I understand the gentle, slow pace because it was ultimately the tale of a sad, regretful, lonely old man, not an action hero. But it needed a bit more incident. Not wall-to-wall action, just hints that he'd done something between the 1940s and the 1980s. I did wonder if it was ...

I liked it a lot. My brother told me it tapped into the Stranger Things feel but I haven't seen that, so for me it was Rear Window, Fright Night, Stand By Me and the Goonies. It could've been tightened up a little - a few less jokes about wanking in the first half hour, perhaps - but it didn't betra...

We skipped this to watch Tigers Are Not Afraid but it seems to have gone down fairly well.

I really didn't like this one at all, although it was directed with some style (that said, the Italian opening and closing theme music trying to make it seem like a '70s thriller was just inappropriate showing off). Hateful characters and a plot which made no sense. I'd completely missed the fact th...

Probably my favourite of the weekend. Definitely the best of the several "bad shit happens at a holiday home" efforts. I loved all the twists and turns, didn't find anything too predictable although maybe that one plot device, already mentioned, could've been a little less awkward. I've tried to ima...

Although it was incomprehensible, other than a feeling that nothing was real and this was a game they were doomed to play over and over again, it was imaginative and full of striking, beautiful images. Definitely a film I would like to see again.