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FrightFest 2011: The Last Post Review

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Directed by Axelle Carolyn, The Last Post is an emotional ghost story confidently told across eleven minutes. Opening with shots of an elderly lady, Colette (Jean Marsh), struggling to move about her sparse nursing home room, the film then rarely leaves this one room, the contained story unfolding slowly around this central character. A wise choice perhaps as it [...]




FrightFest 2011: Five Of The Best

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FrightFest is probably my favourite film festival and it’s definitely five days in August that I now look forward to every year. This is in part down to the excellent organisation, the incredible atmosphere and the fellow film fans you get to spend the August Bank Holiday with but mostly it’s because the festival affords you [...]




FrightFest 2011: Detention Review

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Joseph Kahn’s debut feature Torque was an odd film that led to some pretty fascinating defences, in particular from online critics who believed that the film had been crucially misunderstood. Whilst the film may be misunderstood in some ways it is far from being a film worthy of high praise and the extent to which Kahn manages [...]




FrightFest 2011: The Glass Man Review

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Martin (Andy Nyman) is a meek and somewhat feeble man who loses his well paid job and instead of telling his wife decides to continue ‘going to work’. Every day he gets dressed, has breakfast, takes a pack lunch from his wife Julie (Neve Campbell), kisses her on the cheek and sets off. He has [...]




FrightFest 2011: Final Destination 5 – Premonitions, Rules And Flying Limbs

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***SPOILER WARNING – This post contains spoilers for Final Destination 5, including a discussion of the end of the film. For a spoiler free review of the film, head over here*** At the heart of the Final Destination film series is a pretty dopey high concept, that death doesn’t like to be “cheated”. They rest on a set up [...]




FrightFest 2011: Horror Panel with Larry Fessenden, Ti West, Lucky McKee, Adam Green, Joe Lynch and Andrew van den Houten

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One of the highlights of this year’s FrightFest was an on stage interview with Larry Fessenden and the horror panel that followed it. Larry Fessenden is a filmmaker who is perhaps unknown to a lot of film fans but for many years he has been making unique and very intriguing films in the horror genre, [...]




FrightFest 2011: TrollHunter Review

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The so-called found footage sub-genre seems to have been a reasonably reliable money spinner in recent years and whilst films using this technique often receive a critical kicking and proclamations regarding its death seem more and more common with each passing film, the approach is showing no signs of going way. With the exception of [...]