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FrightFest · 2011

FrightFest 2011

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24 films · 12 reviews

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Chillerama

Movie anthology set in a drive-in movie theatre.

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan; Writer: Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan; Stars: Richard Riehle, Adam Rifkin, Ray Wise, Joel David Moore, Eric Roberts, Kane Hodder, Kristina Klebe, Lin Shaye, Brent Corrigan, Anton Troy, Gabby West, Corey Jones, John F. McCormick, Ward Edmondson, Kaili Thorne)

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark

Review preview for Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark

The film's biggest disappointment is that it just isn't very scary.

David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
A girl starts to hear voices in the hidden basement of a mansion her father is restoring.

(Country: US, Australia; Year: 2010; Director: Troy Nixey; Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins, Nigel McKeand; Stars: Katie Holmes, Bailee Madison, Guy Pearce, Alan Dale, Julia Blake, Nicholas Bell, Jack Thompson, Dylan Young, Emelia Burns, Edwina Ritchard, Gabriela Iturrizaga, Lisa N Edwards, Garry McDonald, James Mackay, Ande Orbach) , Official site

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Deadheads

A pair of slacker zombies go on a road trip to try to find one of their lost loves.

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Brett Pierce, Drew T Pierce; Writer: Brett Pierce, Drew T Pierce; Stars: Michael McKiddy, Ross Kidder, Markus Taylor, Thomas Galasso, Natalie Victoria, Eden Malyn, Benjamin Webster, Greg Dow, Harry Burkey, Leonard Kelly-Young, Jamie Wheatley, Brian Matthew Richardson, Christina Rose, Alexander Borrello, Brock Tarzana) , Official site

Detention

Teenagers face a serial killer in comedy slasher.

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Joseph Kahn; Writer: Joseph Kahn, Mark Palermo; Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Jan Anderson, Spencer Locke, Parker Bagley, Jesse Heiman, Aaron Perilo, Richard Brake, Walter Perez, Brian Guest, Jessica Lee, Shanley Caswell, Danae McKillop, Kate Kelton, Erica Shaffer)

Final Destination 5

Review preview for Final Destination 5

The deaths are gory and elaborate, certainly, and the effects aren’t bad, but it’s nothing new.

Helen Beaumont · 2 out of 5
Death tries to correct the balance after a premonition saves a group of workers from a bridge collapse.

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Steven Quale; Writer: Eric Heisserer, Jeffrey Reddick; Stars: Nicholas D'Agosto, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Tony Todd, Emma Bell, David Koechner, PJ Byrne, Courtney B. Vance, Ellen Wroe, Miles Fisher, Arlen Escarpeta, Tanya Hubbard, Tim Fellingham, Andy Nez, Ian Thompson) , Official site

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Fright Night

Review preview for Fright Night

What's noticeable about Gillespie's version is how little really has to change to make it work.

Owen Van Spall · 3.5 out of 5
Is horror movie addict Charley Brewster’s suave new nextdoor neighbour Jerry Dandridge really an evil vampire responsible for a string of recent deaths?

(Country: UK, US; Year: 2011; Director: Craig Gillespie; Writer: Marti Noxon, based on the story by Tom Holland; Stars: Colin Farrell, David Tennant, Anton Yelchin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Imogen Poots, Toni Collette, Dave Franco, Grace Phipps, Reid Ewing, Emily Montague, Sandra Vergara, Chelsea Tavares, Will Denton, Tina Borek, Charlie B. Brown) , Official site

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The Glass Man

A debt collector offers a man down on his luck a solution he can't refuse.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Cristian Solimeno; Writer: Cristian Solimeno; Stars: Andy Nyman, James Cosmo, Neve Campbell, Cristian Solimeno, Don Warrington, Lorraine Burroughs, Simon Sherlock, Brett Allen, Gary Grant, Amanda Ray-King, Lauren Cuthbertson, Luke Sullivan, Polly Furnival, Will Francis) , Official site

The Holding

Review preview for The Holding

Jacobson is definitely a new British talent to watch.

Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
An enigmatic stranger may not be as much of a godsend as he first appears to a lonely mum and her daughters.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Susan Jacobson; Writer: James Dormer; Stars: Kierston Wareing, Vincent Regan, Skye Lourie, Maisie Lloyd, David Bradley, Terry Stone, Jake Curran, Jarrod Cooke, Mark Cooper Harris) , Official site

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The Innkeepers

Review preview for The Innkeepers

You can’t help thinking that West would have made a better (and perhaps more genuinely unsettling) film if he’d focused more on the inner demons of his young protagonists

Jeff Robson · 3 out of 5
An old inn is about to shut its doors for the final time and two of its employees get more than they bargain for when they go ghost hunting.

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Ti West; Writer: Ti West; Stars: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, George Riddle, Alison Bartlett, Lena Dunham, Jake Schlueter, John Speredakos)

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Inbred

A group of young offenders run into trouble in a remote Yorkshire village.

(Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2011; Director: Alex Chandon; Writer: Alex Chandon, Paul Shrimpton; Stars: Jo Hartley, Seamus O'Neill, James Doherty, James Burrows, Neil Leiper, Chris Waller, Nadine Rose Mulkerrin, Terry Haywood, Damien Lloyd-Davies, Derek Melling, Mark Rathbone, Dominic Brunt, Mat Fraser, George Newton, Michael Sanderson) , Official site

Kill List

Review preview for Kill List

Kill List manages to blend its study of friendship, masculinity, violence and family with a hitman road movie wrapped inside a horror mystery. This is quite some achievement.

Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
A hitman's moral compass becomes badly skewed.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley; Stars: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson, Michael Smiley, Emma Fryer, Struan Rodger, Esme Folley, Ben Crompton, Gemma Lise Thornton, Robin Hill, Zoe Thomas, Gareth Tunley, Jamelle Ola, Mark Kempner, Damien Thomas) , Official site

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A Lonely Place To Die

Review preview for A Lonely Place To Die

A thoroughly thrilling and unpretentious little flick that takes its genre by the scruff of the neck and drags it kicking and screaming through Scotland's menacing undergrowth.

David Graham · 4 out of 5
Mountain climbers become caught up in a game of cat and mouse after discovering a kidnapped girl buried in the wilderness.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Julian Gilbey; Writer: Julian Gilbey, Will Gilbey; Stars: Melissa George, Ed Speleers, Eamonn Walker, Sean Harris, Alec Newman, Karel Roden, Kate Magowan, Garry Sweeney, Stephen McCole, Paul Anderson, Holly Boyd, Eric Barlow, Tania Chant, Gillian MacGregor, Douglas Russell) , Official site

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A Night In The Woods

A hiking trip into the woods leads to terror for a trio of pals.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Richard Parry; Stars: Scoot McNairy, Anna Skellern, Andrew Hawley)

Panic Button

Social networkers on the trip of a lifetime find themselves playing for their lives in a virtually reality game.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Chris Crow; Writer: Chris Crow, Frazer Lee, John Shackleton, David Shillitoe; Stars: Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jack Gordon, Michael Jibson, Elen Rhys, Joshua Richards, Vern Raye, Kezia Burrows, Sarah Parks, Millie Midwinter-Lean, Paul Jibson, Sule Rimi) , Official site

Rogue River

A grieving woman accepts a lift from a man after her car is towed away... little anticipating what is waiting for her courtesy of he and his wife in their cabin in the woods.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Jourdan McClure; Writer: Ryan Finnerty, Kevin Haskin; Stars: Michelle Page, Art Alexakis, Chris Coy, Michael Cudlitz, Lucinda Jenney, Bill Moseley, Michael Rooker) , Official site , Trailer

Saint (Sint)

Review preview for Saint

An unashamedly trashy treat.

David Graham · 4 out of 5
After being murdered, bishop St Niklas seeks revenge every 32 years by giving the parents and children a Christmas they will never forget.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2010; Director: Dick Maas; Writer: Dick Maas; Stars: Egbert Jan Weeber, Caro Lenssen, Huub Stapel, Cynthia Abma, Kees Boot, Madelief Blanken, Frederik Brom, Ben Ramakers, Joey van der Velden, Christopher Parren, Rob Andrist Plourde, Fred Goessens, Escha Tanihatu, Bert Luppes, Bob Schwarze) , Official site

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Sennentuntschi: Curse Of The Alps

The hills are alive with the sound of screaming.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2010; Director: Michael Steiner; Writer: Stefanie Japp, Michael Sauter, Michael Steiner; Stars: Roxane Mesquida, Joel Basman, Rebecca Indermaur, Peter Jecklin, Ueli Jäggi, Thomas Landl, Carlos Leal, Hanspeter Müller, Florian Nussbaumer, Nicholas Ofczarek, Daniel Rohr, Anne-Marie Sievi, Andrea Zogg) , Official site

The Theatre Bizarre

A girl obsessed with an abandoned theatre is treated to six weird tales.

(Country: US, France; Year: 2011; Director: Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley; Writer: Scarlett Amaris, Douglas Buck, John Esposito, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Emiliano Ranzani, Richard Stanley; Stars: Tom Savini, Kaniehtiio Horn, Debbie Rochon, André Hennicke, Elissa Dowling, Suzan Anbeh, Catriona MacColl, Victoria Maurette, Erica Rhodes, James Gill, Virginia Newcomb, Lorry O'Toole, Jeff Dylan Graham, Lindsay Goranson, Lena Kleine)

Troll Hunter (Trolljegeren, Trollhunter)

Review preview for Troll Hunter

In a filmic landscape littered with the lurching corpses of zombies and the emotional angst of vampires, it's refreshing to be presented with a mythology that is less familiar.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A group of student filmmakers get more than they bargained for when tangling with a man tasked with protecting Norway from giant trolls.

(Country: Norway; Year: 2010; Director: André Øvredal; Writer: André Øvredal; Stars: Otto Jespersen, Hans Morten Hansen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Johanna Mørck, Knut Nærum, Robert Stoltenberg, Glenn Erland Tosterud) , Official site

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Tucker & Dale Vs Evil

A pair of hillbillies have a nasty run in with a group of college kids.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Eli Craig; Writer: Eli Craig and Morgan Jurgenson; Stars: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss.)

Urban Explorers (The Depraved)

Review preview for Urban Explorers

Edited, directed and shot by Andy Fetscher (Bukarest Fleisch), Urban Explorer offers a cruel lesson in the ugliest aspects of Germany's recent history.

Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
A warren of tunnels beneath Berlin holds trouble for a group of thrill-seekers.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2011; Director: Andy Fetscher; Writer: Martin Thau; Stars: Nathalie Kelley, Nick Eversman, Klaus Stiglmeier, Max Riemelt, Catherine de Léan, Brenda Koo, Adolfo Assor, Johannes Klaußer, Andreas Wilniewski, Kai Michael Walter)

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Vile

How far are people willing to go when instructed by authority?

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Taylor Sheridan; Writer: Eric Jay Beck, Rob Kowsaluk; Stars: Eric Jay Beck, April Matson, Akeem Smith, Reg Cipes, Maya Hazen) , Trailer

The Wicker Tree

Review preview for The Wicker Tree

Although this is a flawed film, it certainly isn't the disaster many had feared, and it will provide viewers with much to think about.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A Texas gospel singer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in a bizarre ceremony of pagan rites.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Robin Hardy; Writer: Robin Hardy; Stars: Christopher Lee, Graham McTavish, Clive Russell, Honeysuckle Weeks, Henry Garrett, Ailidh Mackay, Keith Warwick, James Mapes, Jacqueline Leonard, Brittania Nicol, Prue Clarke, Callum Mitchell, Lesley Mackie, Iain Stuart Robertson, Terry Wale) , Official site

Full review See: Interview with Robin Hardy and Keith Easdale about The Wicker Tree

The Woman

Review preview for The Woman

Horror film of the year so far, and likely to be one of the most memorable and celebrated of the coming decade.

David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
A successful country lawyer captures and attempts to 'civilise' a woman he finds in the woods.

(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Lucky McKee; Writer: Lucky McKee, based on the book by Jack Ketchum; Stars: Angela Bettis, Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers, Marcia Bennett, Carlee Baker, Lauren Ashley Carter, Tommy Nelson, Frank Olsen, Zack Rand, Chris Krzykowski, Shana Barry) , Official site , Trailer

Full review See: Interview with Pollyanna McIntosh about The Woman