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Glasgow Film Festival · 2013

Glasgow Film Festival 2013

Frightfest

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10 films · 7 reviews

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The ABCs Of Death

Review preview for The ABCs Of Death

With each director having only four minutes there is really little time for the viewer to get engrossed in the material, barring some kind of sharp shock, superb central twist, gag or sharp social commentary, and some of writers and directors struggle wit

Owen Van Spall · 2.5 out of 5
An alphabet of short films focusing on different ways to die.

(Country: US, New Zealand; Year: 2012; Director: Nacho Vigalondo, Adrián García Bogliano, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Marcel Sarmiento, Angela Bettis, Noboru Iguchi, Andrew Traucki, Thomas Cappelen Mallin, Jorge Michel Grau, Yudai Yamaguchi, Anders Morgenthaler, Timo Tjahjanto, Ti West, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Bruno Forzani, Simon Rumley, Adam Wingard, Srdjan Spasojevic, Jake West, Lee Hardcastle, Ben Wheatley, Kaare Andrews, Jon Schnepp, Xavier Gens, Jason Eisener, Yoshihiro Nishimura; Writer: Kaare Andrews, Simon Barrett, Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, Adrián García Bogliano, Lee Hardcastle, Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Simon Rumley, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Nacho Vigalondo, Dimitrije Vojnov, Ti West, Yudai Yamaguchi; Stars: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Iván González, Kyra Zagorsky, Arisa Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Kazuno, Martine Årnes Sørensen, Seminosuke Murasugi, Manon Beuchot, Lucy Clements)

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Aftershock

A group of revellers trapped in an underground nightclub by an earthquake soon find they have still worse dangers to deal with.

(Country: US, Chile; Year: 2013; Director: Nicolás López; Writer: Eli Roth, Nicolás López; Stars: Eli Roth, Andrea Osvárt, Ariel Levy, Nicolás Martínez)

The American Scream

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Stephenson's eye picks up all kinds of telling detail to build a life-affirming picture of these individuals' heroic foolhardiness.

David Graham · 4 out of 5
Three Massachusetts families pepare haunted houses for Halloween.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Michael Stephenson; Stars: Matthew Brodeur, Victor Bariteau, Manny Souza, Lori Souza)

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The Bay

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There's some fun to be had among the commotion of the outbreak, but it all seems too stretched to really bite deep as either satire or schlock.

David Graham · 3 out of 5
Chaos breaks out in a small town in the wake of an ecological disaster.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Barry Levinson; Writer: Michael Wallach; Stars: Kristen Connolly, Anthony Reynolds, Jane McNeill, Michael Beasley, Christopher Denham, Kether Donohue, Stacy Rabon, Andy Stahl, Stephen Kunken, Alisa Harris, Andrew R. Kaplan, Frank Deal, Lauren Cohn, Jody Thompson, Jack Landry)

Full review See: Article about real life parasitic monsters to rival those in Prometheus

Black Sabbath (I Tre volti della paura)

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There's scarcely a scene in this film that doesn't deserve to be a poster.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Three tales of terror: a threatening phone call; an ancient evil; and a ghostly morality tale.

(Country: Italy, France, US; Year: 1963; Director: Mario Bava, Salvatore Billitteri; Writer: Mario Bava, Alberto Bevilacqua, Ivan Chekhov, Marcello Fondato, F.G. Snyder, Aleksei Tolstoy; Stars: Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Susy Andersen, Massimo Righi, Rika Dialina, Glauco Onorato, Jacqueline Pierreux, Milly)

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Bring Me The Head Of The Machine Gun Woman (Tráiganme La Cabeza De La Mujer Metralleta )

A powerful gangster will spare no expense to arrange the assassinaton of the mercenary who is out for his blood.

(Country: Chile; Year: 2012; Director: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza; Writer: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza; Stars: Fernanda Urrejola, Matías Oviedo, Jorge Alis, Nicolás Ibieta)

Byzantium

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Neil Jordan skilfully examines the nature of time and the theme that he surveys like no other filmmaker - what it means to physically be in two places at once.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
Two vampires, mother and daughter, open a seaside bordello.

(Country: UK, US, Ireland; Year: 2012; Director: Neil Jordan; Writer: Moira Buffini; Stars: Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Riley, Tom Hollander, Caleb Landry Jones)

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Detention Of The Dead

A group of very different students find themselves stuck together in detention, with the added complication of zombies.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Alex Craig Mann; Writer: Alex Craig Mann, based on the play by Rob Rinow.; Stars: Jacob Zachar, Alexa Nikolas, Christa B Allen, Jayson Blair, Justin Chon, Max Adler)

Lords Of Salem (The Lords Of Salem)

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Lords Of Salem is probably the director's most (ahem) 'mature' work yet - that being said, maybe next time he should give someone else's script a chance.

David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
Three radio DJ are drawn into danger after listening to a mysterious record.

(Country: US, UK, Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Rob Zombie; Writer: Rob Zombie; Stars: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Ken Foree, Dee Wallace, Meg Foster, Patricia Quinn)

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Sawney: Flesh Of Man

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Sawney is a fairly accomplished first feature that at least has the good sense to revel in its silliness without resorting to self-indulgent irony.

David Graham · 3 out of 5
As detectives hunt for a serial killer, a tabloid crime writer uncovers the truth about the cannibal clan responsible for increasing disappearances, but he doesn't know their darkest secret.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ricky Wood; Writer: Ricky Wood; Stars: Elizabeth Brown, Lisa Cameron, Lindsay Cromar, Shian Denovan)

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