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Glasgow Film Festival · 2010

Glasgow Film Festival 2010

Frightfest

Our friends from Frightfest are back with another weekend of thrills and chills almost certain to sell out, so if you want to go along, get your tickets early. There's gore, supernatural scares and thrillers that put the 'psycho' in psychological, so don't expect to get a good night's sleep.

Programme

8 films · 4 reviews

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2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams

Review preview for 2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams

As a story it falls apart because there is no one to root for.

Daniel Hooper · 1.5 out of 5
A cannibal clan goes on the move in search of fresh meat, which is bad news for two beautiful heiresses making a reality TV show. Plus read our with Bill Moseley.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Tim Sullivan; Stars: Bill Moseley, Lin Shaye, Christa Campbell)

Full review See: Bill Moseley Interview on 2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams, Devil's Rejects

Bitter (Amer)

A giallo about obsession and murder.

(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Hélène Cattert, Bruno Forzani; Stars: Marie Bos, Delphine Brual, Harry Cleven)

Frozen

Three skiers are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Adam Green; Writer: Adam Green; Stars: Emma Bell, Ed Ackerman, Rileah Vanderbilt, Adam Johnson, Chris York, Peder Melhuse, Kevin Zegers, Shawn Ashmore, Kane Hodder, John Omohundro, Joshua Cameron)

Lizard In A Woman's Skin (Una lucertola con la pelle di donna)

Review preview for Lizard In A Woman's Skin

A provocative and visually arresting giallo, with an eerily sensual atmosphere bubbling with sexual deviancy and decadence.

James Gracey · 4 out of 5
A rich socialite is accused of the violent sexual murder of her nymphomaniac neighbour, but has she been framed by her scheming husband?

(Country: Italy; Year: 1971; Director: Lucio Fulci; Writer: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, José Luis Martínez Mollá, André Tranché, Ottavio Jemma; Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel)

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[REC] 2 (Rec 2)

Review preview for [REC] 2

The acting lacks the raw feel from the first film.

Donald Munro · 3 out of 5
Satanic zombie action following on from where [Rec] left off as a TV crew's abandoned camera keeps rolling in a quarantined apartment building.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza; Writer: Jaume Balagueró, Manu Díez, Paco Plaza; Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Pablo Rosso, Àlex Batllori, Javier Botet, Jonathan Mellor, Claudia Font, Ariel Casas, Nico Baixas, Andrea Ros, Martha Carbonell, Juli Fàbregas, Óscar Zafra, Pau Poch, Alejandro Casaseca) , Official site , Trailer

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Rejkjavik Whale Watching Massacre

A group of tourists commission s boat to go whale-watching, but when the boat breaks down and crew get hungry, they find themselves fighting to stay alive in Iceland's first contribution to the exploitation genre.

(Country: Iceland; Year: 2009; Director: Julius Kemp; Stars: Aymen Hamdouchi, Gunnar Hansen, Miranda Hennessey, Terence Anderson)

Splice

Review preview for Splice

This movie has some of the strangest moments you’ll see on film this year.

Nick Da Costa · 4 out of 5
An experiment gets out of control after scientists go on the run with their human-animal hybrid creation.

(Country: Canada, France, US; Year: 2009; Director: Vincenzo Natali; Writer: Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, Doug Taylor; Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, David Hewlett, Delphine Chanéac, Abigail Chu, Brandon McGibbon, Amanda Brugel, Stephanie Baird) , Official site , Trailer

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Stag Night

Three guys out on a stag night, and two young women they manage to offend, accidentally get off at the wrong underground stop and find themselves hunted by primitive cannibals who have lived in the tunnels for generations.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Peter A Dowling; Stars: Breckin Meyer, Vinessa Shaw)