FrightFest

Yeah, fancy making things up :-) Genuinely the first sustained period of goosebumps for me (a couple of the shorts managed a few seconds). Ethan Hawke should have words with Johnny Depp and all the other mainstream actors who have tried to be spooked out. For a while I believed we were getting a Jac...

Nothing wrong with a Hammer-esque family vs the Near Dark end of the Twilight franchise. It was watchable enough. The landlord's wife was the highlight as she seemed to particularly enjoy herself. I'm pleased that someone is trying to do a vampire film /franchise without that Anne Rice romanticism t...

For somewhat different reasons, I'd also not quite engaged with Frightfest until Sunday. This was a real twisted treat. The lead actor did not occur to me as a hero as suggested in the Q&A, nor an anti-hero, but very much like extending the first 20 mins of the lead (father) in The Woman and loo...

I recently purchased glasses to deal with eyesight problems leading to migraines. They have been very useful at Frightfest, when it comes to subtitles and seeing who is on stage. I did not wear them for this film. I would have enjoyed most of these as short films, but as a relentless pastiche of sam...

Somehow, the story was too similar to Seasoning House, and it suffered from that. And from the general "low budget" nature of the second half. Oh, the abuse cycle was not particularly well told ... In an attempt to be positive, I quite liked that first slow motion shot of the girl running ...

Highlight so far. Taking it in its own right (for the reasons Muffy refers to, though I have no problem with the changes), the lead actors were the perfect couple. One thing worth noting is that the background cast looked like people at a wedding rather than people who very much want to appear as zo...

I thought it was likeable enough. Some fine set pieces in the revenge department, and Mr Noble's delivery of those Kreugeresque "Punch lines" was admirable. Quite a gentle film. )

On a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 is Shaun of the Dead, 6 is Attack the Block and 0 is a particularly violent episode of Eastenders, this was a 7 for me. Unlike some I have spoken to, I found the young brothers endearing, but it was probably wise to share the story with the Old Folks, who consisted of...

A game of two halves. The first part was quite harrowing, and yet almost sensitive, and I'd rather have had that continue until a quick shot of vengeance at the end. As it was, the second half was a reasonable example of the genre "Hard Blokes chase chicks, who really should not be able to surv...

I'd say NO WAY to ticketmaster and their ilk getting involved. Gigs are overpriced due to agencies and their fees and sold out to touts and their own internal touting mechanism. There are one or two "ethical" ticket agencies, but really, the Frightfest system is not that broke. The only pr...

Here's a handy link )
http://www.frightfest.co.uk/Films/2012FrightFestFilms/

Here's a spreadsheet version, which I will update with times etc when known

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... jBMUWN6eEE

Like Jay (hi Jay!) we were there just as the weekend and day pass aisles sold out. There are unsold aisle seats on the far left and right of the auditorium at the back of the circle. We were told these are for single ticket sales, but the ones we got were better seats - more central. So if your part...

Me neither!
Thanks for that.

I enjoyed it immensely, although I now regret not having the courage to ask a few pertinent questions during the Q&A, such as: - 1 - why do his victims thank him? 2 - who is he? (as in "does your friend know who you are?") 3 - what was actually going on? Did it remind anyone else of A...