FrightFest

We get threads like this every year. It's often the case that the lineup doesn't look that exciting because these are films that haven't had a chance to build buzz. The festivals look better in retrospect when we know what the good films were. The OP holds up 2014's lineup, but I don't think things ...

evilweevil wrote: ↑Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:15 pm Are the Q&A sessions only in this screen and for full festival pass holders?

No. The screenings in the two main screens are staggered by half an hour so that guests can do intros and Q&As in both.

Some more films that look interesting: Anna and the Apocalypse - Scottish zombie apocalypse musical. Has been getting good reviews from other festivals where it played. The Book of Monsters - Kickstarter-funded splatter film from the team behind The Creature Below which played the 2016 Frightfest. A...

High-profile horror at Cannes: Climax : Fellow art-house controversialist Gaspar Noe's latest. The plot seems to involve a dance troupe taking LSD and then having a horrific orgy. Unlike Von Trier's film, this has had a rapturous reception, winning the Director's Fortnight and getting highly positiv...

Vice wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:51 pm Please do all you can to secure HEREDITARY for August this year, as I expect most FF fans will be wanting to see that.

Big hit at Sundance, and looking like it's this year's The Witch/Babadook/Get Out/You're Next etc.

It looks great, but comes out here on 15th June.

Rather than start a separate thread for each film, I thought it might be easier just to post all my reviews together. My overall thoughts were that we got an especially strong Glasgow line-up this year, maybe the best since 2011, with a couple of stand-outs and a higher standard than usual. A pity t...

I first did a couple of films in 2001 (that was when I turned 18), and 2002. Then I moved away from London and didn't return till 2008. My first weekend pass was in 2012 and I've been doing the full weekend ever since.

Best - Better Watch Out
Worst - Sequence Break

There's always a lot of retreads and remixes going on in most genres. There is indeed a lot of great horror untapped horror literature around that could be effectively adapted, but it's safer to copy something that worked before than take a risk on something new. This applies both to film-makers who...

My pick is the guy who gut his penis sliced off by a descending mile-high glass bell jar in Meatball Machine Kodoku. 2. Swinging onto the circular saw in Tragedy Girls 3. Felissa Rose getting her arm and mobile phone pushed through her alimentary canal in Victor Crowley 4. The woman getting her limb...

I don't know what you folks are complaining about. This was blast to watch. I have to admit that I watched 2.5 seasons of Hannibal so my threshold for the whole things-are-too-easy-for -the-killer and all-the-good-guys-are-idiots is really high. There's no comparison. Hannibal was supposed to be ge...

Better Watch Out Lowlife Killing Ground The Bar Ruin Me 6. To Hell and Back 7. The Villainess 8. Death Note 9. Tragedy Girls 10. Meatball Machine Kodoku 11. Mayhem 12. Victor Crowley 13. Game of Death 14. Radius 15. Cult of Chucky 16. Our Evil 17. Dead Shack 18. Double Date 19. Fanged Up 20. The En...

I don't think there was any difference in the quality of the films from last year: my average score this year was 4.45 whereas last year it was 4.43, but I think the way the films were spread out was much better, with more of the best films going to the Main Screen whereas last year they tended to a...

I enjoyed MacIntyre's still unreleased Patchwork at Glasgow, but this wasn't as good. It's a film that follows the villains so there's a difficult balance between making them likeable enough and yet evil enough that you still care about the victims and get the resulting tension between wanting them ...

If you've seen any of these Japanese gorefests you know exactly what to expect. Lots of gore, lots of action, and his trademark mix of hideous body horror and goofy humour. It actually has quite a relatively slow start establishing the characters, with a downbeat story of a middle aged debt-collecto...