FrightFest

4/10. A one and a half hour brawl involving two girls, a fat baby man and a cross dressing witch.

4/10. The recreation of the old school fx of the time, with inventive prosthetics and copious amounts of fake blood is cool, but Paula's story is bogged down by dodgy flashback sequences and misplaced romance. There's a good film to be made about the Grand Guignol and its place in the history of hor...

6/10. Offbeat cine-literate two-hander about a man who checks into a hotel with the intention of murdering a prostitute and a woman who's infinitely more fucked up than he is who ruins his meticulous planning. Based on a novel by Audition writer Ryu Murukami, this is always unpredictable, if a littl...

2/10. Histrionic bollocks about three sisters - three strands of the braid - who for no apparent reason, come together every few years to play out a mildly sadomasochistic game of doctor in an old mansion. It's not terribly shot but I couldn't stand the stylistic choices - turning the camera upside ...

7/10. Slow burn (no pun intended) psychological horror that goes to some pretty dark places. Definitely my kind of jam, even at 11.30 in the AM - there's nothing like mouse smoothie for breakfast. It's a bit one dimensional in terms of the way the characters are written and the whole thing feels sli...

7/10. Imagine if early in his career, Peter Jackson had made Primer instead of Bad Taste and you'll have a good idea of what's in store here. This is the kind of quirky, irreverent slacker comedy the Kiwis do so well, bringing together time travel and low level heist tropes in a film that mines the ...

6/10. There comes a point where there's a surfeit of these kind of films, with their pointed references (BMX bikes, Rush posters on the bedroom wall, conversations about Ewoks and watching Close Encounters on a sleepover) and a low-key synth score, sounding more 80s than anything from the 80s. The e...

4/10. Shades of Green Room, but with less brutal ingenuity, The Ranger doesn't seem sure whether it's going for slasher or comedy and ends up in some awkward place between the two that didn't really work for me. The kills come too late on and aren't inventive enough to be satisfying; most of the hum...

ItWasAllGiallo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 4:22 pm We’re in G34-36 - you’re welcome to scooch down for a snuggle if it all gets too chilly

Congrats on your first post! First time FrightFester as well or are you an old hand?

https://letterboxd.com/magic_rat/list/f ... film-list/

Do you mean films you'd like to see cos you missed them at the time, or just any 25, even if you've seen them already?

Tried to get 4 together, but ended up with G29-31 + H29. Hopefully a little further away from that evil a/c this year!

Nope, definitely Stitches - I was there for that one too and yeah, best intro I've seen at FF to date! Adam Green's intro for Vic Crowley last year got a lot of love, but Ross Noble had the crowd in...

Including the Halloween events? I'll assume so!

First - The Happiness of the Katakuris (2002)
Last - Terrifier (2017)
Best - Creep (2014)

I was in C last time, but went a few of rows back to F this year. I hope I haven't moved myself out of reach of the air con, which I found glorious last year. I may have been in the minority on that front though. Possibly, I thought it was arctic - I rarely have to put extra clothes on going into a...

Didn't take the plunge with a full festival pass till 2012 - been every year since!