I'm a little sorry I didn't watch this.
Does it go much into the year-by-year history - the changing venues, additional screens, particular films - or is it mainly recently-shot talking heads saying how great everything is?
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- Thu Aug 30, 2018 10:12 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: Frightfest: Beneath the Dark Heart of Cinema
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24572
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:01 am
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: BRING BACK THE Q & As
- Replies: 23
- Views: 30838
Re: BRING BACK THE Q & As
I don't really understand the rationale for dumping the Q&As. The extended intros "wasted" almost as much time - we barely had time to eat on any of the four main days - and were, by necessity, much less informative. As for the argument of people walking out in front of guests, I'm sur...
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:51 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: Best 5 of the festival
- Replies: 24
- Views: 32612
Re: Best 5 of the festival
What Keeps You Alive
The Dark
Summer of 84
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Incident in a Ghostland
Bubbling under: Upgrade and Killing God. And I'll mention Braid because nobody seemed to like it.
The Dark
Summer of 84
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Incident in a Ghostland
Bubbling under: Upgrade and Killing God. And I'll mention Braid because nobody seemed to like it.
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:48 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: Mega Time Squad
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8154
Re: Mega Time Squad
I'm not sure the time travel paradoxes really made any sense - and I certainly can't be bothered to think about it - but I did enjoy it a lot. At times I thought the leading man wasn't quite up to carrying the film, but the guy playing the main villain was superb.
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:44 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: Tigers Are Not Afraid
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10778
Re: Tigers Are Not Afraid
I thought it was very good indeed... but at the same time I didn't totally connect with it. I certainly couldn't call it one of the top 10 FrightFest films of all time, as Mr McEvoy was telling us. The (spoilerised) final scene referred to above felt rather cheesy, I knew it would end just like that...
Re: Heretiks
bad acting (yes, even Claire Higgins' overcooked performance, although she's better than the blocks of wood that populate the rest of the film) You reminded me to check if Hannah Arterton is related to Gemma Arterton - turns out she's her sister. Without wishing to be too unkind, one of those sibli...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 11:11 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: The Cleaning Lady
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9846
Re: The Cleaning Lady
I enjoyed this one at the time, but it seems to be fading in my memory pretty fast.... I think the filmmakers thought they were making something dark and serious and it did indeed start promisingly, but it all got pretty silly by the end. Shelly's motivations and intentions were all a bit vague, per...
Re: Upgrade
I enjoyed it, but - ignoring the more extreme violence and the ending - I saw it as the pilot for a Six Million Dollar Man meets Knight Rider TV series. With a bit of Batman and Daredevil thrown in. His mum - as a sort of Alfred - and the cop who suspects him of being a crimefighter, but can never p...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:58 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16584
Re: The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot
Quite well done, and I understand the gentle, slow pace because it was ultimately the tale of a sad, regretful, lonely old man, not an action hero. But it needed a bit more incident. Not wall-to-wall action, just hints that he'd done something between the 1940s and the 1980s. I did wonder if it was ...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:46 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: Summer of 84
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12701
Re: Summer of 84
I liked it a lot. My brother told me it tapped into the Stranger Things feel but I haven't seen that, so for me it was Rear Window, Fright Night, Stand By Me and the Goonies. It could've been tightened up a little - a few less jokes about wanking in the first half hour, perhaps - but it didn't betra...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:36 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: Anna and the Apocalypse
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10031
Re: Anna and the Apocalypse
We skipped this to watch Tigers Are Not Afraid but it seems to have gone down fairly well.
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:35 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: Hell Is Where The Home Is
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11507
Re: Hell Is Where The Home Is
I really didn't like this one at all, although it was directed with some style (that said, the Italian opening and closing theme music trying to make it seem like a '70s thriller was just inappropriate showing off). Hateful characters and a plot which made no sense. I'd completely missed the fact th...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:15 pm
- Forum: FF 2018
- Topic: What Keeps You Alive
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15840
Re: What Keeps You Alive
Probably my favourite of the weekend. Definitely the best of the several "bad shit happens at a holiday home" efforts. I loved all the twists and turns, didn't find anything too predictable although maybe that one plot device, already mentioned, could've been a little less awkward. I've tr...
Re: Braid
Although it was incomprehensible, other than a feeling that nothing was real and this was a game they were doomed to play over and over again, it was imaginative and full of striking, beautiful images. Definitely a film I would like to see again.
Re: Heretiks
It was awful. No build-up, no tension, no atmosphere, no light and shade, no story. Just chuck some young girls in a convent and bounce them around between nasty nuns, the plague and some ropey-looking spooks until there's only one left. And just in case anyone actually cares about the "plot&qu...