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FrightFest

2009

Triangle
Triangle

Celebrating a decade of dread, Frightfest reached its tenth year in 2009. It opened at the Empire Cinema in London's Leicester Square with the world premiere of Triangle on August 27 and closed on August 31 with The Descent: Part 2.

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  • An American Werewolf In London
    Review preview for An American Werewolf In London

    Landis keeps the humour dry, the speech naturalistic, yet his keen sense of the absurd provides for some laugh-out-loud moments.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Fully restored version of the werewolf classic.
  • Hierro
    Review preview for Hierro

    Ironically, despite the narrative positively drowning in water imagery, there is never any sense of flowing story.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A mother becomes convinced her missing son is still alive.
  • The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
    Review preview for The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

    The film, surprisingly, pulls back from extreme gore and specific scenes of insane surgery.

    Owen Van Spall · 2.5 out of 5
    A mad doctor plans to graft people together so that they form a crawling monstrosity, and two unfortunate American girls fall into his clutches.
  • Heartless
    Review preview for Heartless

    The amount of creativity and ideas on display is astonishing.

    James Benefield · 4 out of 5
    A photographer's son with an unusual birthmark comes to suspect that demons are murdering the people of London.
  • The Horseman
    Review preview for The Horseman

    While The Horseman will have viewers squirming in their seats, its take on the workings of vengeance is remarkably responsible.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A grief-mad father tracks down the men responsible for his daughter’s death and discovers more about his daughter than a father should ever know.
  • Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl
    Review preview for Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl

    Cartoonish scenes of violence are fed through a deranged Manga ethos to create a film that is uber-kitsch and heavily saturated in post-modern sensibilities.

    James Gracey · 3 out of 5
    Two schoolgirls fight over a boy - using supernatural powers and extreme violence.
  • Black
    Review preview for Black

    The breaking of genre boundaries is surreal but one of many enjoyable elements of Black.

    Leanne McGrath · 4 out of 5
    After a bank heist goes south, the surviving robber tries to get rich quick in Senegal, only to fall foul of a millionaire who is morphing into a snake and gaggle of other weirdos vying for power.
  • The House Of The Devil
    Review preview for The House Of The Devil

    As a genre filmmaker through and through, West is unlikely to be winning an Oscar any time soon – but when it comes to the extraordinary manipulation of tension and atmosphere, he is an unsung master of cinema.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Retro suspense thriller centers on a cash-strapped college girl who answers a babysitting ad only to gradually unravel the horrifying secret behind why she was truly hired.
  • The Descent: Part Two
    Review preview for The Descent: Part Two

    This delivers the kind of disappointment you always fear a sequel to a great first film will.

    Paul Griffiths · 2 out of 5
    The survivor of the first film is forced to lead a rescue party in search of her missing friends.
  • Best Worst Movie
    Review preview for Best Worst Movie

    Not just for Troll 2 fans, it comments on the much wider culture surrounding the love of bad movies.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Documentary about Troll 2 - considered by many to be the worst film ever made.

A–Z of FrightFest 2009 reviews

Features

  • Resurrecting the past
    FrightFest's Spring Awakening has an older gem but the modern films are stuck in a time warp.