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FrightFest

2008

Let The Right One In won top prize at Tribeca
Let The Right One In won top prize at Tribeca

Now in its ninth year, the FrightFest continues to cut a trail of bloody success.

This year's festival will run at London Odeon West End from August 21 to 25. Among the highlights are Tribeca Film Festival favourite Let The Right One In and low-budget Brit horror Mum & Dad.

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Latest reviews

  • Let The Right One In
    Review preview for Let The Right One In

    It is frequently not what you see but what you hear which holds the horror.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    A touching story of first romance... with a side-serving of horror.
  • Red Mist
    Review preview for Red Mist

    Beyond simple voyeurism there's really no reason to care.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A coma victim with psychic powers hunts down the medical students who tormented him.
  • The Disappeared
    Review preview for The Disappeared

    Elevated by an outstanding central performance from Harry Treadaway.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A youth released from a mental hospital tries to get back to normal but is haunted by the voice of his younger brother, who disappeared.
  • Martyrs
    Review preview for Martyrs

    A movie you won’t be able to shake off any time soon.

    Lee Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    After being abducted and abused when she was younger, a young girl seeks revenge on those she believes to be responsible. Plus read our .
  • Trailer Park Of Terror
    Review preview for Trailer Park Of Terror

    The decent cast, the unusual soundtrack and the imaginatively sadistic set pieces are all good value for money.

    James Benefield · 3 out of 5
    A bus load of high school kids stumble upon a trailer park full of blood-thirsty zombies.
  • The Midnight Meat Train
    Review preview for The Midnight Meat Train

    If The Midnight Meat Train starts with what sounds like a bog-standard serial killer premise, it quickly deviates into more uncharted terrains.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A photographer stalks a serial killer who picks off his victims on the LA underground.
  • Scar 3D
    Review preview for Scar 3D

    So nasty are parts of Scar, the latest entry to the ever-more inexplicable torture film-canon, that you wouldn't want to view it in any dimensions, let alone three of them.

    Richard Mellor · 1 out of 5
    Torture porn taken to the next dimension, which may well not be a good thing.
  • Mirrors
    Review preview for Mirrors

    Mirrors doesn't feel like an unfixed horror for an uncertain world, it comes across more as a broth for the appetites of focus groups.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    Something nasty is lurking through the looking glass...
  • Death Race
    Review preview for Death Race

    So long as you don't care about how cars go or how reality works or how people can continue to get away with making movies without a single credible acting performance, or anything, you'll almost certainly enjoy yourself.

    Max Crawford · 3 out of 5
    A prisoner is offered his freedom if he can win a motor race - but just staying alive is hard enough!
  • Eden Lake
    Review preview for Eden Lake

    Not so very far from where we all live today.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A young couple spending a romantic weekend in the woods fall foul of an angry group of teenagers.

A–Z of FrightFest 2008 reviews

Features

  • Twisting time
    Director Nacho Vigalondo talks exclusively about his mind-bending feature debut Timecrimes... and the upcoming Hollywood remake.
  • This is hardcore...
    Exclusive interview with director Pascal Laugier about his disturbing horror film Martyrs.
  • Back from the dead
    After a lacklustre horror showing at festivals in the first half of 2008, the FrightFest all-nighter proves there's life in the corpses yet.
  • Hot city frights
    A look forward to Film4 FrightFest this August Bank Holiday.