FrightFest

I thought it was pretty dull and it doesn't seem like giant boar FX have progressed much, if at all, since the days of Razorback. The boar seemed to be everywhere at once and, despite being the size of a house, it apparently had the ability to sneak around in absolute silence. The "big names&qu...

I usually like (if like is the right word) Gaspar Noe's films so I had some idea what to expect, at least stylistically. But I don't like to read too much in advance so all I knew was that it was largely improvised and starred 21 dancers. Dance is not close to my heart. After 10 minutes I was thinki...

I think it was quite a strong year by recent standards. Nothing absolutely outstanding (as I think the Top 5 thread is already showing) but there were a good seven or eight really solid films, lots which were "OK" and only a few stinkers. That said, as usual I didn't see many films on the ...

I noticed a number of people walking out during the film, maybe they were just bored or hungry but I did think it was a bit more difficult and challenging than most horror films. Not because it was especially scary or gory, but it broke the rules a bit - very little was explained, people who didn't ...

If ever a film was made to star the latter-day Robert Englund, this was it. But it still would've been shit... Complete and utter rubbish from beginning to end. The plot was as weak as could be* but the director was most to blame - any moment which should have had some impact (like the fate of the m...

I was expecting this to be badly plotted and historically-inaccurate looking, in a Hammer of the Gods kind of way... but at least there'd be the compensation of a big clay monster going "HULK SMASH!". Or words to that effect. Instead it's heavy on the history (accurate or not, I have no id...

Now the ticket website I agree with you was a disaster today. The company who run it for us have consistently underestimated the bandwidth required for the launch of the discovery screen tickets. They have done the same the last three years now. The problem is there is no commission on the free sea...

I can't seem to book any discovery screen tickets! The instructions don't seem to be working for me I don't have the single ticket pass holder option and can't book anything. Someone please help! You've probably sussed it out by now and I don't know what stage you're at, but... The orange seats on ...

It went better than last year, just very slow and tedious doing the "can we contact you" screen every time. Having multiple screens open at once clearly did not work so it was just a case of doing them one. at. a. time.... I didn't get the whack-a-mole thing, with seats disappearing before...

Usual chaos. "One or more of the seats you have chosen is unavailable", "You need to put something in your basket", and all the while those green dots are disappearing. And sometimes reappearing. Then disappearing again. Someone, somewhere, must be getting the exact seats they wa...

Thanks Chris, now I understand the reaction at the end a bit better. I suspect I'd have been muttering "just get on with it..." during the intro, though....

The only Discovery screen film I ended up seeing, and to me it was a proper discovery screen film, micro-budget and probably not for all tastes. It looked like it could have been made any time in the last 40 years. I did struggle to understand what was going on much of the time, but it all came toge...

I think this is just about the only film I watched which I haven't commented on yet - perhaps because it's already fading in my memory after watching 23 other films since. But it was good, very well done and I certainly understood the plot better than the Japanese version even though a hell of a lot...

The play she was in looked bloody awful, it was ridiculous that the audience would be captivated by it. Maybe that's what it's like in the Korean equivalent of Shaftesbury Avenue? It did look extraordinarily static and dull, but theatrical traditions in Japan and China are very different from the W...

A good year, I think. I was happy with the return to Leicester Square after the year in Shepherd's Bush (the tube journey home on the Monday night last year with a load of pissed-up, screeching Notting Hill Carnivallers was far more terrifying than anything at FrightFest). And although the screen an...