FrightFest

A couple of kickstarter projects caught my eye recently: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lawriebrewster/automata-feature-film-gothic-lovecraft-horror This is from Lawrie Brewster whose film The Black Gloves screened at Frightfest at the Halloween event last year. The campaign has had a great st...

Thanks Ian. Appreciate it's a long way off yet!

Have the dates for Glasgow FF 2019 been decided yet?

My hotel seems to want to book me in at another date rather than give me a refund because they were closed for this year's event....

Thanks Chris. Unfortunately I was one of the casualties of the weather, so it is good to get some feedback. I thought last year was the best Glasgow event I had been to, with three stand-out films, plus some other good ones too, so it is interesting to hear the positive reviews and a view on the ove...

2008 for the main festival, the year of Martyrs!

For me still the hardest film to watch we have shown in the 19 years we have been hosting the event

Thanks Ian, an interesting line-up with a few films that caught my eye. Last year was phenomenal so hopefully this year will be just as good!

Also hope the travel chaos of last year's storm doesn't happen again to stop me from seeing the Thursday films!

Thanks, found it now!

The Halloween 2017 thread seems to have disappeared! Perhaps it has been eaten by giant ants??!!!

So overall I'd plump for Housewife as my favourite film, with The Black Gloves unfortunately bottom of the pile, albeit with a pretty reasonable score of 6.5 - assuming the sound issues were not deliberate then this score may increase on second viewing. I skipped the Q&A for some much needed food so...

Terrifier Light on story and exposition this throwback to the likes of Driller Killer plays like an extended chase sequence and has a good tempo, plenty of gore and humour (albeit a little less of the latter than I was expecting). Jenna Kanell's Tara helps to anchor the plot and whilst I liked her ...

Beyond Skyline Another film that does what it says on the tin, doing what it does reasonably well. It develops the mythos from the first movie, which was more suspenseful and horror-oriented, and goes down more of a sci-fi action route. The ending even feels a bit like a superhero flick! A pretty g...

Housewife Much like Baskin this is somewhat bizarre, but possibly slightly more straightforward than the director's previous effort. The influences of the likes of Argento were also a little more evident this time around. The depiction of the cult was interesting and I appreciated the exploration o...

It Came From The Desert It did what it said on the tin - a cheesy, fun, 1980s homage / parody romp with plenty of humour and action setpieces. Maybe some of the setup / exploration of the first act could have been trimmed to increase the pace early on but that would be my only real quibble. 7.5 / 10

The Black Gloves I appreciated the style and setting, but I couldn't hear half of the dialogue and I struggled with Macarena Gomez's accent - combined with a slow pace this made this a difficult film to really enjoy. I thought the Owlman was half scary, half absurd and overall I thought that the fi...

Hostile I quite enjoyed this one with some well-executed suspenseful survival scenes spliced with flashbacks that helped to add depth, emotion and characterisation to the tale. I liked the bleakness of the ending, but it also seemed trite and a bit too much of a coincidence, although it was suitabl...