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Film4 FrightFest 2010: Dream Home Review

Dream Home Poster

Dream Home opens with statistics about property prices in Hong Kong and a statement about how crazy the city is and that you have you have to be crazy to survive. One such crazy resident of Hong Kong is Cheng Li-sheung (Josie Ho) who wants to buy her dream home but is thwarted at every [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Hatchet 2 Review

Hatchet II picks up directly after the events of the first film as Marybeth (after a swift bit of recasting) escapes Victor Crowley and the swamp that is his home. Just before she makes her escape though there is a brief scene that features the video camera from the first film and is a scene [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Chillerama Preview – Adam Green’s The Diary of Anne Frankenstein

Adam Green

Not only did Adam Green bring the world premiere of Hatchet II to Frightfest, he and Joe Lynch also announced the news that they had secretly been working on a new film and that it was almost finished. The film is a horror anthology entitled Chillerama and centres on a Drive-In theatre that is closing [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Day Five – Video Nasties, The Dead, Bedevilled, Red White & Blue, The Last Exorcism and The Walking Dead

Kicking off day five of Frightfest was the oddly prescient Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape. Jake West’s documentary explores the period in British film history in which the infamous video nasties list was made and the work of various people who sort to cut and ban horror videos that they felt were too extreme [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Red White & Blue Exclusive Interview – Amanda Fuller

Amanda Fuller

Frightfest was host to the UK premiere of Red White & Blue last night, the latest from Writer/Director Simon Rumley, and we were lucky enough to get a chance to talk to Amanda Fuller, who plays the role of Erica in the film. Fuller is wonderful in the film and despite the excellent writing and [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Exclusive Interview – Simon Rumley Talks Red White & Blue And More

Simon Rumley

In my review of Simon Rumley’s latest film, Red White & Blue, I described it as “phenomenal and a must see film of 2010.” It really is that good and it has been garnering critical praise as it sweeps film festivals around the world. Last night the film received its UK premiere at FrightFest in London and [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Red White & Blue Review

**This review first appeared on HeyUGuys following the screening of the film at the Fantasia Festival but in light of the recent FrightFest screening we are reposting it in case you missed it the first time.** UK writer/director Simon Rumley impressed me greatly with his 2006 film The Living and the Dead and I therefore [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Day Four – The Pack, Short Films, We Are What We Are, Damned by Dawn, Buried and The Loved Ones

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Day four of Frightfest began with the very disappointing French horror The Pack. You can find my review of the film here. Following The Pack and the ‘Quiz from Hell’ by Andy Nyman, Frightfest audiences were treated to a selection of Short Films from around the world. You can see the full list of shorts [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: The Loved Ones Review

**This review first appeared on HeyUGuys following the screening of the film at the Fantasia Festival but in light of the recent FrightFest screening we are reposting it in case you missed it the first time.** The end of year school dance is a difficult time for teenagers and the experience can go many ways. [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: The Pack Review

**This review first appeared on HeyUGuys following the screening of the film at the Fantasia Festival but in light of the recent FrightFest screening we are reposting it in case you missed it the first time.** The Pack (La meute) is a French horror film written and directed by Franck Richard. The film is set [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Day Three -Cherry Tree Lane, The Tortured, 13 Hrs, I Spit on Your Grave, Monsters, Dream Home and Fanboys

Dream Home

Day three of Frightfest kicked off with Paul Andrew Williams’ Cherry Tree Lane, a single location British home invasion film. Christine and Mike are the victims of the home invasion which is perpetrated by a group of teenagers (you could probably describe them loosely as hoodies) and the group upset the couple’s miserable middle class existence and [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Fanboys Review

Kristen Bell Fanboys

Halloween 1998 and Eric (Sam Huntington), Linus (Chris Marquette), Windows (Jay Baruchel) and Hutch (Dan Fogler) are at a party debating Star Wars trivia. The friends have done this for years and apart from Eric, who is trying to ‘get on with his life’, the friends seem happy with their fanboy lives. Desperate to see [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Day Two – Tobe Hooper, Isle of Dogs, F, Red Hill, Alien vs. Ninja, Skyline and Hobo With a Shotgun

Eggshells

The first five hours of Frightfest day two were all about horror legend Tobe Hooper and the day kicked off with his rare debut film Eggshells. Made in 1969 Eggshells is an early experiment from Hooper. Testing out techniques and experimenting with form Hooper misses more times than he hits but overall the film is [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Alien vs. Ninja Review

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It’s always hard to review a film like Alien vs. Ninja (also known as AvN). Released by Nikkatsu as part of their Sushi Typhoon label and directed by Seiji Chiba, AvN is a high concept low brow genre film that pits Aliens against Ninjas (yes the plural is more appropriate). The film has aliens, the film [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Burning Bright Review

Burning Bright Poster

With just a little knowledge of English poetry you may get the impression from the title that this film has something to do with tigers and you’d be right. One tiger in particular, as the film has a premise that screams high concept exploitation. Kelly (Briana Evigan) awakes from a nightmare to a real life [...]




Film4 FrightFest 2010: Day One – Hatchet II, Primal & Dead Cert

The first day of Frightfest began with the disappointing news that the BBFC had demanded cuts on both I Spit on Your Grave and A Serbian Film. The cuts on I Spit on Your Grave totalled 43 seconds and the cuts on A Serbian Film were 3 minutes and 48 seconds. Frightfest organisers decided that the cuts [...]




Dead Cert Set Visit

When talking about British Film there are certain, unavoidable, assumptions one automatically makes.  Those crisply enunciated words have long conjured pictures of rolling hills, heaving bosoms, mad Kings and foppish fools.  An entire industry has been built upon the ever changing hair of Mr Hugh Grant and Jane Austen’s back catalogue has been taken advantage [...]




Hatchet II Teaser Trailer & Images

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Dark Sky Films have revealed the first teaser trailer for Hatchet II, the long-awaited sequel to the 2006 original. Written and directed by Adam Green, Hatchet II stars Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, Tom Holland, Parry Shen and AJ Bowen. Synopsis: Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the [...]




Theatrical Trailer for I Spit on Your Grave

I still have a lot of reservations about the potential of Steven R. Monroe’s remake of the notorious 1978 I Spit on Your Grave but I’m still hopeful that this could be as interesting a film as the original. The film recently played at the Fantasia Festival where it received a mixture of reactions, including [...]




I Spit On Your Grave Posters and Trailer

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I Spit on Your Grave is a new remake of the notorious 1978 rape-revenge classic of the same name. The original is a brutal film but one that has been championed by many for the themes it explores beneath the veneer of it being a nasty exploitation picture. Will the remake do the same? Doubtful [...]