FrightFest

I only went to two full days and some individual films on the other days, but found only one film* not to like. Willow Creek We Are What We Are Big Bad Wolves Cheap Thrills Banshee Chapter I really liked all of the other films I saw on Saturday, plus Hatchet III and Haunter on Friday. Making this my...

"Oh yeah, you know that Blair Witch thing that everyone loved last century? I could do that". (Not actual quote, but true.) Turns out what it takes is an endearing cast and some tight direction the the spookiest scene and a song about Big Foot. Lovely film. Turns out all of us (me included...

So glad I started with this one, top entertainment as ever.
Nice to see those cameos and continued in-jokes.

And *proper* SFX !

Solid Scandinavian thriller (may well have been stretched too thin if it became a series) with superlative direction, by the director one of my favourite films (My Life as a Dog). The slow pace exploded quite nicely in that final scene, even if (as discussed with a fellow FF attendee over the dinner...

This was a cracking romp. The guys beforehand set the scene nicely. Not too serious, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Axes, did some one say? Manages to convey a heroic quest, with a preposterous and over the top ending. I am not particularly interested in naked men wrestling, but several of the ladies ar...

Excellent stuff. Indecent Proposal meet decent acting, decent script and ultraviolence. Anyone else expecting some sort of twist like Kill List and being pleasantly surprised by the finale. As we were saying afterward, Craig was the most ruthless because he was not doing it for himself but his famil...

I suspect it's going to die on its arse - objectively, it's an uncomfortable blend of different elements that never quite works to anyone's satisfaction, like a bar of chilli chocolate. I liked this film but not as much as I like chili chocolate, Agree with your summary otherwise. Fun stuff, slight...

I've now enjoyed this twice (before the film, I was thinking, "Yeah I saw that film "Everyone Dies", I wonder if this is a sequel"). Very watchable lead, manages to make jokes without becoming Freddie Kreuger or sequel-based Pinhead. Some rather good use of the gore, for people w...

Malky wrote:It's not often you get to see killer sushi so I'm glad I saw it.

They should put this on the DVD box.

steve806 wrote:zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....................... not getting that 100 minutes of my life back

I'm not getting the fifteen second this post has taken me back, so we're even.

I paid thirteen quid for the soundtrack. Including postage from Spain I think.
http://www.quartetrecords.com/mientras-duermes.html

Where were you sat, Duke A'bides ? Just want to know if I am being left out. :-) It seems like it's that time of year when the complaints thread outdoes the praise & thanks thread, and so once again: Personally, I don't want a festival of similar films that I'd go and see anyway, I want to be pr...

anoy yin barsted wrote:

AdeBrown wrote:"Here's your long lost Uncle Bob. He is a serial killer."

Christmas: ruined.

Halloween improved though. Swings and roundabouts.

This year was my favourite of the shorts batches, and this film was certainly worth watching in that context. When we get immersed in all that genre horror, it's worth pausing and realising how shocking something real can be. And real emotions. Simon Rumley's film The Living and The Dead had a simil...

I just bought the soundtrack to this.