FrightFest

From the newsletter: As for BLACK in the main auditorium, don’t get us started on the problems we had with that! Well, whatever happened... it was worth it... for me anyway! Yeah. Someone up there's obviously got it in for me. I stick around for the late night screenings of Macabre and Vampire Girl...

Lynch and Greene joked that they had masturbated into the Empire popcorn. But it was Ridley, bounding on stage in his panama hat, proclaiming the birth of a new genre of horror that pissed on horror, the preceding 4 days and every film that over the last 50 years we hold dear By crikey that whole r...

The Tesseract will always be etched on my mind as my worst-ever Frightfest experience. 90 minutes (or whatever it was) of almost unbearable tedium. One of the very few genuine 0/10 movies I've ever seen. The Tesseract was bad. But my worst Frightfest film ever is still Dust. Never seen as many peop...

I was expecting an average follow up so was surprised at how enjoyable this actually was. Once the Crawlers turned up and the blood and guts started flying it pushed all the right buttons for me. Guess it was the same for a lot of the audience going by the spontaneous applause and cheers that kept b...

Certainly not a great film, and not something I would want to watch again, but it wasn't terrible, and it was certainly far better than dross like Smash Cut. Funnily enough it was the other way round for me. Smash Cut was a 'so bad it was good' kind of movie. But I found Zombie Women to be pretty t...

Loved it! The only bit that made me gag was the poo making its way through the chain - burgh! Feggie and I were gutted that they didn't split, and pus and poop didnt come out. :( I think everyone was waiting for that. Especially as they were trying to get up the stairs. And one of the quotes of the...

It might have helped if you'd stayed awake while it was on though :wink: I did! I only crashed out when it was time to give up on it... Five minutes after the start isn't long enough though surely. I should never have given you that hot watter bottle :wink: All joking aside, you gave it a good go s...

sherbetbizarre wrote:Makes Orphan look like Rosemary's Baby.

Utter tedium.

Yeah. It started well enough but I struggled to stay awake in the second half. A pity as I really liked his last Frightfest offering Antibodies.

Not everyone agreed though. There were a couple in our group alone who hated it big time so not to everyone's tastes. Yeah, that would be me then :) A cliche-ridden story dressed up as "art" - couldn't relate to it on any level... It might have helped if you'd stayed awake while it was on...

A bit like last years Martyrs, it needed a special ending to really give it the emotional impact necessary to raise it up a notch. And it certainly had that. Although I have to admit before the final ten minutes or so I was wavering somewhat and felt it had lost its way a bit. But the finale put tha...

Just when I thought I'd seen everything. To quote Team America... "Have you ever seen a man eat his own head Gary? No? Then you haven't seen everything". Maybe not, but I have seen The Human Centipede and that comes pretty bloody close! A truly warped twisted work of genius that had all so...

Loved this to bits. Especially zombie death by fridge after a good police kicking... yay! Oh, I'm not supposed to say that am I?

The worst things happen under the noses of normality without anyone ever really knowing whats going on. just because your familiar with somewhere doesnt make a setting any less credible,infact it makes it all the more shocking I certainly agree with that. Although I was thinking more about misrepre...

The depiction of the community of Eden Lake jarred for me because I am somewhat familiar with that environment and those people. I don't have similar problems with Hostel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Deliverance (or Wrong Turn 2 or Devils Rejects or whatever). Actually I just remembered that Manhunt...

The Soapmaker wrote: Well, he certainly didn't peak with his first script(s) - My Little Eye was so-so, but Gone was utter bobbins. Happily he got it right with his first solo project!

I agree My Little Eye wasn't bad. But I haven't seen Gone.

And now I don't think I will