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Glasgow Film Festival · 2009

Glasgow Film Festival 2009

Frightfest

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.

Programme

8 films · 6 reviews

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Deadgirl (Dead Girl)

Review preview for Deadgirl

A sombre film that never shows more than it needs to, and never allows its more outrageous or shocking moments to descend into sadistic spectacle or farce.

Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
After two teenagers find a dead girl in the basement of a disused mental asylum, the boundary between right and wrong becomes sickeningly blurred.

(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)

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Dorothy (Dorothy Mills)

A psychiatrist tries to help a disturbed girl but finds herself drawn into a mystery that may have violent supernatural origins.

(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)

Grace

Review preview for Grace

Grace marks the arrival of a thoughtful and reverent new talent to the genre.

Tony Sullivan · 3.5 out of 5
A baby presumed dead in the womb is miraculously born alive. Maybe.

(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

Full review See: Interview with Grace director Paul Solet , Sundance Diary: Day Six

I Sell The Dead

Review preview for I Sell The Dead

Monaghan and Fessenden are cast perfectly and have a great onscreen rapport, reminding me of a re-vamped Abbott and Costello.

Darren Amner · 3.5 out of 5
A grave robber looks back on the life he has led and the unburied bodies that haunt his memories.

(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

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One Eyed Monster

Review preview for One Eyed Monster

Funny enough (at least in a drunken crowd) to make your eyes water.

Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
An alien monster wreaks havoc on a porn movie set.

(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

Full review See: Diary Article about the Glasgow Film Festival 2009

Outlander

Review preview for Outlander

It's incoherent in the extreme, the acting is pretty bad and there are heavy helpings of cheese, but for all that, it has a certain charm.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
Vikings and spacemen and alien monsters, oh my!

(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

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The Unborn

Review preview for The Unborn

The script is bland and unimaginative, giving the actors little room to give personality to their characters.

Donald Munro · 1 out of 5
A young woman is gradually possessed by a malignant spirit that has haunted her family since her grandmother was in a concentration camp.

(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

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Walled In

Demolition man chased across remote location by mad killer. News at 11.

(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)