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Glasgow Film Festival · 2012

Glasgow Film Festival 2012

Frightfest Extra

Even more fangtastic thrills from the Frightfest team, these scary movies are showing at intervals throughout the main festival.

Programme

4 films · 3 reviews

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Dracula - Prince Of Darkness

Two English couples ignore the warnings of locals and visit Castle Dracula. The Count has been dead for a decade, but you can't keep a good vampire down, and they are very eagerly received.

(Country: UK; Year: 1966; Director: Terence Fisher; Writer: John Sansom; Stars: Christopher Lee, Barbara Kelley, Andrew Keir)

Livid (Livide)

Review preview for Livid

There's a loneliness, a melancholy at the heart of Livid that is truly haunting.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A trainee carer's scheme to rob a comatose patient's house by night triggers supernatural horrors.

(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury; Writer: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury; Stars: Chloé Coulloud, Félix Moati, Jérémy Kapone, Catherine Jacob, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Chloé Marcq, Béatrice Dalle)

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The Plague Of The Zombies (The Zombies)

Review preview for The Plague Of The Zombies

Well worth a watch, with considerably more going for it than mere novelty value.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A doctor investigates a series of mysterious deaths - and apparent reappearances - in a remote Cornish village.

(Country: UK; Year: 1966; Director: John Gilling; Writer: Peter Bryan; Stars: André Morell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams, Jacqueline Pearce, John Carson)

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The Reptile (Das Schwarze Reptil)

Review preview for The Reptile

This is Hammer Horror through and through, yet distinctly inferior to most of their other works.

Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
A young couple moving into a remote cottage find the villagers unwelcoming and learn that travellers on the moors are meeting with mysterious deaths.

(Country: UK; Year: 1966; Director: John Gilling; Writer: Anthony Hinds; Stars: Jennifer Daniel, Noel Willman, Ray Barrett, Jacqueline Pearce, Michael Ripper, John Laurie, Marne Maitland)

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