FrightFest

Essentially 'Heartless' was Faust with hoodies and strangely it evoked the spirit of Clive Barker for me much better than 'Dread' did. I enjoyed it enormously however as it progressed the generic nature of the story got more & more difficult to ignore. As with Melissa George in 'Triangle', Peter...

I don't know about kd lang . . . I spent the whole movie thinking 'Holy Shit, Edward Furlong has turned into Peter Lorre'. Every time he appeared from behind a door with his beer gut & his bugged out eyes to whine about how he still couldn't find his way out of the damned house I laughed so hard...

I never in my wildest dreams imagined there would be a better nazi zombie movie than 'Zombie Lake' but mein gott 'Dead Snow' was brilliant!!

I think the announcement that the reason the director was not appearing at Frightfest was because he was busy promoting the film in Japan speaks volumes as The Broken really felt like a J-Horror movie in all but it's cast & setting, in particular it struck me as heavily influenced by Kiyoshi Kur...

The only good thing I can think of to say about this one is that by Sunday, after witnessing at least 3 movies where characters ran around in wooded areas muttering about a lack of signal, 'Autopsy' got over the persistantly problematic issue of mobile phone technology interferring with genre conven...

It's not often that one finds themselves meeting a personal hero, someone whose work you have admired for many years, & better yet have the opportunity to speak to them, no matter how briefly. The fondest memory I will take away from Frightfest 2008 was that I had the chance to ask the legendary...

Eden Lake made me feel really uneasy and a bit sick. Especially the super-nasty ending which essentially subverted the climax of Last House On The Left. Best movie on Thursday by a mile for me. I'd like to see the yob with the knob from Eden Lake & the meat humping dad from Mum & Dad go head...