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Frightfest 08: Jack Brooks Monster Slayer

The Frightfest coverage continues!
The last film of Sunday night, but the next film I’ll mention here, was one that I’d been looking forward to since I saw the trailer.
It could all have gone horribly wrong. Pulling of this sort of tongue in cheek comedy horror isn’t easy, and the results can be absolutely excruciating when [...]

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Frightfest 08: The Broken

I’m leaping perilously out of chronological order here, because I want to get the reviews of the films that I didn’t enjoy out of the way first. Which is a bit foolish, because it’s often easier to find something to say about something you didn’t like than something you did. And I didn’t like The [...]

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Frightfest 08: From Within

This year’s Frightfest experience started with 3:10 to Yuma cinematographer Phedon Papamichael’s supernatural thriller. On a day that promised Swedish Vampires (Let The Right One In) and a film touted as “the most extreme film ever” (Martyrs), I had relatively low expectations for From Within.
Elizabeth Rice plays Lindsay, a teenager in a small religious town, [...]

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Frightfest Posts Coming Soon

I was at this year’s Frighfest in London yesterday. T’was indeed an awesome day of horror.
I’m going to post reviews of the 6 films over the next few days, but for now here’s a summary of my Twittering throughout the day:

“Frightfest Sunday begins. Think From Within might be today’s turkey, but keeping an open mind.”
“Unimpressed [...]

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Day Of The Bed

In preparation for tonight’s Frightfest All-Nighter, I booked the day off work today and spent it in bed. Impressively, I managed to sleep from 10:30 last night, to 2pm this afternoon. Admittedly there was a slight interruption as I dropped my son off at my sister’s for the day, but even so I’m quite proud [...]

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Off To See Romero

This is something I never thought I’d get to do! I managed to get tickets to Frightfest’s All Nighter, to be held at the ICA in London in early November.
It all kicks off at 9pm with a showing of Diary of the Dead, introduced by the only and only George Romero himself. One of my [...]

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