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FrightFest

22 August – 26 August 2013

Frankenstein's Army is showing at Frightfest.
Frankenstein's Army is showing at Frightfest.

Film4 Frightfest is back for another year, opening with highly anticipated zombie road movie The Dead 2: India. With a strong line-up that includes arthouse hits and the return (again) of Chucky, it also promises great the special events, quizzes and prize giveaways. There's a huge line-up of special guests including Ben Wheatley, Bobcat Goldthwait and Gareth Evans, director of The Raid.

The festival will run from 22 to 26 August.

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  • The Dead 2
    Review preview for The Dead 2

    No less visceral and gripping for its existential concerns, this is truly epic cinema.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A street kid helps an engineer make his way across zombie-infested India to save the latter's pregnant girlfriend.
  • 100 Bloody Acres
    Review preview for 100 Bloody Acres

    Herriman is perfect in the lead.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two enterprising brothers from the Australian boondocks launch a rickety business selling organic fertiliser - with a secret ingredient.
  • Stalled
    Review preview for Stalled

    These two British upstarts show just how much can be done when you're brave enough to keep things intimate.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    A janitor is trapped in the toilets when a zombie outbreak strikes the office party.
  • The Hypnotist
    Review preview for The Hypnotist

    Everything is wreathed in snow and the crisp air seems to make the stark absence of clues even crueller,.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A detective pairs up with a hypnotist to try to solve a brutal murder.
  • Painless
    Review preview for Painless

    There is a great story in here somewhere.. but the combination of the two narratives - presented as tonally and visually distinct from one another - does not entirely work.

    Rebecca Naughten · 2.5 out of 5
    Gothic horror entwining the story in 1930s Catalonia of a group of children who cannot feel pain, with a man searching for his biological parents in the present day.
  • Cheap Thrills
    Review preview for Cheap Thrills

    Katz keeps the suspense simmering masterfully, alternating between building dread and releasing tension through uncomfortable mirth

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    Two friends trying to drown their sorrows meet a bored married couple who engage them in a series of increasingly bloody and dangerous bets.
  • Haunter
    Review preview for Haunter

    Haunter is unusual in that it lays its cards on the table early, while Breslin conveys real fear in the face of supernatural goings on.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A spooky tale of vintage murders, time travel, and unclear boundaries between the living and the dead.
  • The Last Days
    Review preview for The Last Days

    A showcase for Spanish special effects and relatively slick genre cinema, but plot and characterisation required more attention.

    Rebecca Naughten · 2.5 out of 5
    A couple of months after an epidemic has rendered most of the world's population agoraphobic, and scared to actual death if they go outside, Marc heads underground to make his way across Barcelona in search of his girlfriend.
  • Odd Thomas
    Review preview for Odd Thomas

    It's down to Yelchin to convince us to care, and it's to his credit that he generally manages to pull this off.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Odd Thomas sees murdered dead people and feels it’s his duty to make the people responsible pay for their sins. He works with the local police chief but one day he encounters something that may be too big for either of them to handle.
  • Banshee Chapter
    Review preview for Banshee Chapter

    The most convincing piece of otherworldly horror for years.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An internet journalist discovers that a dangerous hallucinogenic drug has been extracted from the pineal glands of dead humans, and the CIA may be to blame.

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