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FILM4 FRIGHTFEST is the UK's premiere fantasy and horror film festival. The festival is now in its 12th year and each August thousands of genre fans gather together in the heart of London's West End at the prodigious Empire Cinema for five packed days of premieres, previews, personal appearances, signings and surprises.

SEX DEATH SERIAL KILLERS MONSTERS MOTHERS TYRES !!! It can mean only one thing … The Film 4 FrightFest Weekend as part of The Glasgow Film Festival is upon us!

With the best possible array of current and forthcoming genre delights here is the full list of the treats we have in store for you North of the Border in a packed program of premieres and previews to shake and shock your sensibilities way into 2011.

Opening with the World Premiere of the eagerly awaited anthology LITTLE DEATHS mixing sex and shocks from the dark and disturbed minds of three bright UK talents – Sean Hogan, Simon Rumley and Andrew Parkinson – who will all be joining us for this special event.

We continue with the latest Korean masterpiece from Kim Ji-woon, the controversial serial killer sensation I SAW THE DEVIL premiering in all its uncut gory glory.

Our late Friday night treat is the unmissable documentary MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! Have your notepads at the ready as you’ll be gagging to see the films featured in this all out sex and violence celebration of Filipino genre movies from the NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD team.

Saturday sees us rolling out the killer killer tyre and exploding head Cannes sensation RUBBER. We follow this with a trip into darker genre territory with the shocking TERRITORIES from the producer of THE HORDE.

Following these is the played strictly straight horror from the JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER creators as we enter THE SHRINE. Rebecca De Mornay will then have us shrieking in our seats with the remixed remake of MOTHER’S DAY from Darren Lynn Bousman.

Bringing the house down fresh from its Sundance premiere will be the Grindhouse inspired bloody explosion of HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN with Rutger Hauer on his raucous rampage.

The event will be chock full of surprises, give aways and all those things you have come to expect from the FrightFest team.

Tickets are £48 for an event pass to see all eight films or £7.50 to see any individual film. Full details on how to get your tickets plus links to the event box office can be found on the FrightFest web site. Click through to the tickets page. We look forward to seeing you all for what will be a wild and brilliant weekend!

MEMORIES If you have fond memories of Film4FrightFest in August and want an absolutely fantastic memento of the whole event, take a look at this link. Snapper to the Stars Julie Edwards is FrightFest’s official photographer and she took some absolutely amazing pictures of all the guests, presenters and audience. You may have seen some of them featured in newspapers and websites over the Bank Holiday Weekend. Now Julie is offering you the chance to own a compendium of her super photos, so click the link to find out how to order. Christmas is coming after all and it would make a great present. Just think of it, Christmas Day arrives, you gleefully rush downstairs to your stuffed stocking, unwrap the first present you see, only to find a book containing pictures of Ian! But also of Eli Roth, Kane Hodder, Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Tobe Hooper, Gary Kemp, Robin McLeavey, Xavier Samuel, Gemma Atkinson… It’s enough to make your Yule Log stiffen.

IT WAS A BLAST Probably like you, I’ve just about recovered from the Film4 FrightFest this year. Every August Bank Holiday seems to come by so rapidly now, then it’s a five-day blur, and before you know it the closing movie is playing and it’s all over. And you look around at everybody just as dazed and elated as you are and say, what happened? A few of the things that happened this year I could have well done without, like the whole A SERBIAN FILM censorship issue and the impossible situation that put us in. Just as well director Srdjan Spasojevic is such a lovely guy and wasn’t too fazed by the nightmare scenario. I will treasure the moment he came up to me and said my impassioned speech over why we refused to play it in such a bowdlerised form – 49 cuts amounting to 3 minutes 48 seconds, really! – brought a tear to his eye. It made me realise that FrightFest is such a big event we can now no longer avoid scrutiny from government departments who didn’t even know we existed until our tenth anniversary.

I have to say I couldn’t have been more delighted with the responses to MONSTERS, PRIMAL, THE LOVED ONES, F, DREAM HOME and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (told you so about the latter, one of the Best Remakes Ever in my opinion). Almost standing ovation time. Many got the subtle delights of THE DEAD, RED, WHITE A BLUE and BEDEVILLED too, so further hoorays there. I’m always amazed by how eclectic opinion is; one letter I was sent from an audience member told me how much she loved CHRISTOPHER ROTH. Another citing BURNING BRIGHT as a highlight. Now those of you in line for the latter tiger-on-the-loose thriller know how amazed I was seeing you all fighting for tickets. Don’t get me wrong I love the movie, the reason why it was programmed in the first place, but it was DVD imminent. And weren’t the Stormtrooper Garrison great ushering the audience into the FANBOYS screenings? It was really funny seeing all you closet STAR WARS fans begging for photo opportunities and happily kneeling on the floor as guns were put to your heads.

We bang on about it every year, but this year more than most, the FrightFest community spirit was in evidence to an unprecedented degree. I spoke to more of you than ever before, and was amazed by how far some had come to be part of what is now a must-attend date on the international calendar. Finland, Croatia, Italy, America, Germany, France, Turkey, Spain, Portugal and a whole lot more countries were in evidence and all of you sparked to the warmth, friendliness and comfortable inclusive feeling the FrightFest brigade have in spades. Adam Green, our patron saint and director of our opening night attraction HATCHET II, said it best on the first night, “Film4 FrightFest is more than a film festival”. And you know something, it really is.