Glasgow Film Festival 2009

Assembling the best of that which crawls skin and chills the blood cannot be easy, and to do it twice a year consistently is the kind of minor miracle only Frightfest can achieve. Frightfest's Glasgow appearance bisects the year and picks the very best of new horror.

View other Glasgow Film Festival Films by strand: European Cinema, Galas, Glasgow Shorts Film Festival, Great Scots, Happy Birthday Errol Flynn!, It's a Wonderful World, Music and Film, Retrospective, Stranger Than Fiction, The State Of Independents, Viva Mexico!, Youth Film Festival

One Eyed Monster One Eyed Monster
One Eyed Monster and Outlander
Deadgirl (Dead Girl) (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel; Writer: Trent Haaga; Stars: Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen, Candice Accola, Andrew DiPalma, Eric Podnar, Nolan Gerard Funk, Christina Blevins, Kelle Cantwell, Shushig DerStepanian)
After two teenagers find a dead girl in the basement of a disused mental asylum, the boundary between right and wrong becomes sickeningly blurred.
Dorothy (Dorothy Mills) (Country: Ireland, France; Year: 2008; Director: Agnès Merlet; Writer: Agnès Merlet, Juliette Sales; Stars: Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, David Wilmot, Ger Ryan, David Ganly, Gary Lewis)
A psychiatrist tries to help a disturbed girl but finds herself drawn into a mystery that may have violent supernatural origins.
Grace (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Paul Solet; Writer: Paul Solet; Stars: Jordan Ladd, Gabrielle Rose, Samantha Ferris, Malcolm Stewart, Stephen Park, Serge Houde, Evan Lanier, Shelly Gant), Official Site
A baby presumed dead in the womb is miraculously born alive. Maybe.
I Sell The Dead (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Glenn McQuaid; Writer: Glenn McQuaid; Stars: Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Larry Fessenden, Angus Scrimm, Daniel Manche, John Speredakos, Eileen Colgan, Brenda Cooney), Official Site, Trailer
A grave robber looks back on the life he has led and the unburied bodies that haunt his memories.
One Eyed Monster (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Adam Fields; Writer: Adam Fields, Jordan Fields; Stars: Amber Benson, Jason Graham, Ron Jeremy, Charles Napier, Jeff Denton, Caleb Mayo, Bart Fletcher, Jenny Guy, Veronica Hart, John Edward Lee, Carmen Hart, Frank Noel), Official Site
An alien monster wreaks havoc on a porn movie set.
I Sell The Dead I Sell The Dead
I Sell The Dead and The Unborn
Outlander (Country: US, Germany; Year: 2008; Director: Howard McCain; Writer: Dirk Blackman, Howard McCain; Stars: James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders, Patrick Stevenson, Aidan Devine, Ron Perlman, Bailey Maughan, John Nelles, James Preston Rogers, Scott Owen, Petra Prazak, Owen Pattison, Matt Cooke), Official Site, Trailer
Vikings and spacemen and alien monsters, oh my!
The Unborn (Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: David S. Goyer; Writer: David S. Goyer; Stars: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet, Idris Elba, James Remar, Carla Gugino), Official Site, Trailer
A young woman is gradually possessed by a malignant spirit that has haunted her family since her grandmother was in a concentration camp.
Walled In (Country: USA, France, Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner; Writer: Serge Brussolo, Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Rodolphe Tissot, Olivier Volpi, Sylvain White; Stars: Mischa Barton, Darla Biccum, Cameron Bright, Shannon Jardine, Noam Jenkins, Sophi Knight, Rob Roy, Josh Strait, Deborah Kara Unger, Rob van Meenen)
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