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Top 5 for me were:

Sleep Tight
American Mary
Chained
Rec 3
Sinister

American Mary
Sinister
VHS
Maniac
Sleep tight

Worst
After - just because it was so dull

Sadly I was only there for the Saturday, saw six films and my top five is in fact a top four.

1. Maniac
2. Under The Bed
3. May I Kill U?
4. Kill Zombie
5. Meeting the Soska Sisters

Sinister
American Mary
Chained
Maniac
Cockneys Vs Zombies

VHS
American Mary
Berberian Sound Studio
Maniac
Chained

...and Sleep Tight, of course.

Couldn't limit myself to five films, such a good line up this year:
1. American Mary - just the thing to wake us up on a Monday morning, I'm guessing there'll be a bit of a run on Dead Hooker In A Trunk on the strength of this
2. Grabbers
3. Dead Sushi
4. Paura 3D
5. VHS
6. Sleep Tight
7. Chained
8. Guinea Pigs

1. We Are The Night
2. Sinister
3. Maniac
4. American Mary
5. Chained

also honourable mentions to Sleep Tight, The Seasoning House, V/H/S, and in particular The Inside, which covered the same sort of ground as Hidden In The Woods, but was massively better and should have been in the main screen instead of HITW.

Maniac
Sleep Tight
Rec 3
American Mary
Sinister

With honourable mentions to -

Tower Block
Chained

Reanimator wrote:Top 5 for me were:

Sleep Tight
American Mary
Chained
Rec 3
Sinister

Same five, not in that order.

1. Sleep tight
2. Sinister
3. Chained
4. The seasoning house
5. Tower block

Also enjoyed The Possession, but struggling to think of any further highlights...

In no real order and 5 is a struggle as I wasn't overly impressed this year

American Mary
Eurocrime
The Seasoning House
Stitches
Rasputin

Can't do a top 5 as that'd mean having to drop a couple of favourites so I'll just score everything I saw (annoyed I overslept and missed Eurocrime! though)...



Sleep Tight - 9/10

[Rec]3: Genesis - 9/10

American Mary - 8/10

Chained - 8/10

Sinister - 8/10

Maniac - 8/10

Paura 3D - 8/10

Grabbers - 7/10

Tulpa - 7/10

Berberian Sound Studio - 7/10

V/H/S - 7/10

Tower Block - 7/10

The Seasoning House - 6/10

Nightbreed: Cabal cut - 6/10

Hidden In The Woods - 6/10

Stitches - 5/10

The Possession - 5/10

Outpost II: Black Sun - 5/10

Cockneys vs Zombies - 5/10

Dead Sushi - 5/10

After - 4/10

Under The Bed - 3/10


And out of the short films my favourite was...

The Captured Bird - 9/10

FIVE is too little for me;

1.American Mary
2. SINISTER
3. SLEEP TIGHT
4. A night of nightmares
5.chained
6.Maniac
7. REC 3
8.THE SEASONING HOUSE
9. the nightmare factory
10.grabbers/ cockneys vs zombies/euro crime

Though not bad, but could have been better:
under the bed
tulpa
Berbian sound studio

1. Sinister - Wasn't expecting much from this but it was genuinely scary in parts.
2. V/H/S - despite the nauseating camerawork that's always associated with found footage films it was amusing and tense in parts.
3. Maniac - I was amazed that it was as grubby and downbeat as the original.
4. Chained - A real surprise, suspenseful and disturbing.
5. Stitches - Really quite funny whilst still working as a slasher film.

Special mention for Tulpa, which was boring me shitless until about midway through whereupon I genuinely couldn't stop laughing.

My top 5, in no particular order:
Rec3
Sleep Tight
American Mary
Chained
Tower Block

Best nostalgic indulgences:
Nightbreed
The Devil Rides Out

Guilty pleasures:
The Thompsons
After
Cockneys vs. Zombies