I sort of know what you mean - FrightFest 2015, compared (in my mind) to say, FrightFest 2011, had a lot more thrillers and tense cat-and-mouse style psychological films rather than out-and-out horror. When Inner Demon came around I was looking forward to something obviously ghostly, and was massively disappointed, but we won't go there. I really liked the lineup though. We only went over the weekend days, and for me Sunday was stronger than Saturday, but it was still a good batch of films.27052014 wrote: I think it's time the organisers thought of a new name for the festival.
People associate it with horror movies but I discovered quite early on that few actual horror movies are shown.
Maybe at the end of next year's festival they can promote this.
However, I don't think it needs to be renamed! The idea of it being a horror film festival has been built up over years, but pretty much every scenario in the films I saw was horrific or elicited horror in some way - the idea of 'horrror' doesn't have to be the classic ghosts and ghouls, or splatter and slasher. There's a lot to be said for the creeping dread of the everyday scenario taking a nasty turn - those kind of films (Slumlord, Rabid Dogs, Shut In [for all of its clunky final reveal]) tend to stay with me a lot longer.