FrightFest

Great stuff, I'll be buying it on DVD to use as a checklist for films I want to see.

I already have a few like Long Weekend, Turkey Shoot, Thirst and Patrick (plus Picnic At Hanging Rock which doesn't deserve the gentle ribbing they gave it!).

streetrw wrote:The BBFC have given this a 15! I would have felt this was an 18 for sure - the leg-on-the-climbing-frame bit tipping it beyond a 15 - but obviously not.

Unless the theatrical version has been somewhat trimmed from the one we saw? He did say it wasn't really finished.

Felt like nothing had happened after an hour had passed That's because nothing had happened after an hour had passed! I know, because I was asleep for most of that hour and apparently I didn't miss a thing. Unless there were a whole load of extra rednecks, hippies and/or pigs who appeared during th...

Bearded Avenger wrote:I'd say better than Who Can Kill a Child? due to a stronger script, more plausible character actions and far better FX.

Fair enough - I find Who Can Kill a Child? quite powerful and thought-provoking, whereas The Children was really just a bloody good laugh. Like 'em both though.

It was interesting reading the interview in the little programme for the day - most of the people involved in the film weren't particularly horror fans, and it showed. They thought they were being original but it was all very predictable and boring, bloody awful acting too. Thank God it was only abo...

I got REALLY fed up of the screaming children and happy families. I did too, in fact I found the first half hour or so pretty hard work - didn't like any of the characters and I thought they all looked/acted irritatingly "American" despite it being a British film. Plus, I loathed wΔz so m...

I've always loved the film - and I have seen it on the big screen before, so I must be older than Neil Marshall.... But I do think it's starting to show its age - it seems a bit plodding and the fight scenes don't have much "impact" compared with modern actioners. But I don't normally find...

Very well done, although I did think it slowed down a bit too much once they were trapped in the petrol station. Call me a softie, but I liked the characters and was glad the "nice" couple survived. Unfortunately I did nod off for a couple of minutes at one point - tiredness was setting in...

I can never be arsed having a Christmas tree, real or plastic - seems that may have been prescient of me....

Great little short, and a perfect accompaniment to The Children.

Must admit fatigue had set in by that stage so I didn't have much patience with Pig Hunt .... it wasn't awful, but I thought it could have done with a bit more humour, Wrong Turn 2 stylee. The audience didn't seem to get into it much - no cheering at big-gory-death moments. Maybe we were all too tir...

I think it might have made a great pilot episode to a series of Books of Blood adaptations. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was the plan at some stage, it did feel like an extended Masters of Horror episode. I thought it was pretty good, dark and atmospheric and I liked the Scottish setting....

Film of the day for me, undoubtedly. When I saw it was starring that annoying bloke from Where The Heart Is and Burn It , my heart sank... but I forgot about that in no time. Superbly plotted and directed, with a real Hitchcock feel as an ordinary bloke goes through a completely unexpected ordeal. P...

Bruce Campbell lampoons the state of his career and the shitty low budget movies he has to make... by making a shitty low budget movie. Hmmmm. :| Didn't work for me at all. And Ted Raimi's "Old Chinaman" character was even more misguided and borderline-xenophobic than Chris Tucker in Rush ...

krispyg wrote:So the answer is if some random freak knocks your door at 4am don't answer or else....

In short, yes.

If some random freak knocked on your door at 4am would you even consider answering?

Thinking back, didn't Alan & co introduce it as the full uncut version?

I'm not too bothered either way, I enjoyed it chiefly for the comedy value.